Written By Eugene Morgan
How do we keep cool when everything around us is chaotic? We don’t have to react to an event, but it’s easy to react to an event. When our response to an unpleasant event is like a knee-jerk reaction, then probably the event is controlling us. We feel a need to control the event that we think is controlling us.
But in reality the event we are reacting to, isn’t controlling us but the opinions about the event that is causing the knee-jerk reaction. And it’s a lot easier to control us than try to control an event or someone’s behavior.
We can take a deep breath and we can refocus when things seems to be out of our control. Also, it can be helpful to change our opinions about things.