As a clinical nurse, you must learn how to manage emotions
A nurse told me about her distress. Her nursing technology is very good, and it is also recognized and appreciated by leaders and colleagues. However, it has a very fatal disadvantage, which is that she often cannot control her emotions.
As a nursing staff, it is inevitable that you will meet some picky patients with bad tempers. If you are not careful, misunderstandings and conflicts will arise, and even conflicts will occur. At this time, how can nurses avoid conflicts and conflicts and maintain a good doctor-patient relationship? There is an important way to improve your emotional control ability through learning and exercise.
To manage your emotions well, we can try to put some effort into the following aspects:
NO.1
Emotional management can start by writing an "emotional diary"
The so-called emotional diary refers to recording some events related to emotions, and through analysis and reflection of these events, we can understand the impact of these events on emotions, and find the causal relationship between emotions and events or behaviors and their results.
Prepare a notebook or note-taking software for writing an emotional diary, and write down several things that happened that day or a few days ago, including those that are happy or meaningful, such as meeting good friends, receiving small gifts, accompanying family members, and keeping promises; some may be unpleasant or inappropriate, such as having a dispute with colleagues or service recipients, or having shortcomings or even mistakes at work. Whether it is something that is worthy of happiness or something that leaves regrets, you must carefully analyze the causes and find the correlation between emotions, behavior and their results.
The purpose of writing an emotional diary is to summarize experiences and lessons by reviewing the emotional experiences generated by various specific events, understand the impact of emotions on work, life, interpersonal relationships, etc., and then understand the importance of emotional management.
By persisting in writing an emotional diary for a long time, on the one hand, you can gain happiness from happy, positive and meaningful events, maintain a good attitude and positive emotions, and on the other hand, it is also conducive to gradually cultivating the habit of emotional management, making yourself more open-minded and happier every day.
NO.2
Maintaining a good emotional state with the help of abdominal breathing method
When you encounter situations that make you emotionally unstable in daily life and work, such as nervousness during interviews and competitions, anxiety when conflicts with relatives and partners, and anger when you have disputes with others, etc., try to calm yourself down by taking a deep breath to avoid affecting the current situation.
Using abdominal breathing can not only calm yourself down quickly, but also improve a person's health and physiological state after long-term practice, making people's mentality calm and emotional stability.
abdominal breathing training method is simple, with small movement limitations. It is okay to stand, sit or lie down. It can be said that it is a kind of training that can be carried out at any time. The specific method is: inhale slowly with your nasal cavity to let the gas reach the lower abdomen through your chest. After the chest and abdomen are swelling and saturated, hold your breath for a few seconds, and then slowly exhale the gas. Try to emptiate the gas in your body. This is repeated over and over again. When you are beginner, you should gradually extend the training time by about 5 minutes each time, and finally 30 minutes a day.
NO.3
Grow wisdom and improve emotional management ability through reading and learning
Emotional state and emotional management ability are closely related to people's ideological consciousness and cognitive abilities.
People who are prone to losing control of their emotions may often be self-centered because of their unpleasant views and become angry when they are not satisfied; or they may stick to their ideas and become conflicted with others, and conflicts will arise when they are incompatible. If you can improve your cognitive level and your own cultivation through reading and learning, many contradictions will be reduced, and even if there are contradictions, they will be easily resolved.
Reading can be wise and improve one's own quality and cognitive ability, so that one can have enough wisdom and calm attitude to face various problems.
When you read a lot of books and absorb rich knowledge and nutrition, you will be able to distinguish right from wrong, keep pace with the times, be modest and polite, open-minded, be kind to others, be positive and optimistic, and your ability to manage emotions will naturally be enhanced.
The book contains wisdom of ancient and modern times and contains thousands of good plans that can help us escape from the dilemma and dispel confusion.
NO.4
Let the body and mind embark on the journey of rebirth in exercise
Someone once asked the question on the Internet: What changes have occurred in your life after persisting in exercise? There is a highly praised answer: "Exercise gives me the chance to be reborn."
I don't know if you have had such an experience. When you are in a depressed mood, you simply don't think about anything and go outside for a few laps. After you come back, you will feel refreshed. No matter how depressed you were before, it was like coming back to life after exercise. Countless examples have proved that whether it is the blow of adversity in life, the discomforts and worries in work, or even suffering from depression and , you can alleviate your distress and symptoms through exercise. If you persist in exercise for a long time, all problems may be solved.
Practice has proved that exercise is the outlet for bad emotions, which can vent and sublimate suppressed emotions and energy, thereby fighting negative emotions. Exercise makes people produce more endorphins and dopamine , making people relaxed and happy, and improving their sense of happiness. Therefore, it is a good medicine for mental health.
Of course, the forms of movement are diverse. Everyone can choose the exercise method that suits them according to their actual situation and conditions. Running, cycling, swimming, walk , Tai Chi ... Just suit yourself. As long as it is aerobic exercise, it is beneficial to the body and mind, and can eliminate worries, boost your spirit, and drive people forward.
NO.5
Only by emptying negative emotions can you better achieve yourself
Over time, people will inevitably bear many negative emotions, which will drag down the pace of progress. When emergencies occur, negative emotions often become out-of-control gunpowder, causing unpredictable consequences. Therefore, it is of great significance to let go of negative emotions.
The so-called easing means to obtain positive energy from a calm attitude towards life to change yourself, and to establish a strong spiritual barrier for yourself, so that the negative energy and negative emotions of the outside world cannot affect you, so that you can be calm and easy to deal with in life, career, and interpersonal relationships.
There are many specific ways to empty your emotions. You can try it from the following aspects:
When you feel tired and exhausted physically and mentally, you can give yourself a vacation. Or accompany your loved ones, or relax and enjoy yourself through a short trip.
When you are anxious and restless, you can give yourself a space to meditate, put down the burden in your heart, forget everything in the past, imagine some beautiful things with a fascination, and put some beautiful wishes.
When others are successful in their career promotion and salary increase, but they are frustrated in the workplace and are not valued, they should be brave enough to remove the thorns of jealousy that hurt others and encourage themselves to have a normal heart.
In short, easing yourself is to reduce the burden on your mind and return your mind to purity. We must have both pursuits in life and career, and be down-to-earth; be honest in interpersonal relationships, understand more, and strive to shine in our own world and let nature take its course in other people's world.
Managing emotions is a kind of ability that we need to focus on. Being able to maintain emotional stability in work, life and interpersonal communication is better than a hundred kinds of wisdom. I hope this article can be helpful to readers, and I hope that readers and friends can manage their emotions, scatter their lives well, and live this life gracefully and calmly.
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Article Author: Li Dongmei Li Zhen
Author Unit: Suichuan County Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Jiangxi Province Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
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