5 Guidposts of emotional self-control

• Feeling is important. Having feelings and expressing feelings have a signifcant difference. In any circumstances, don't not cut off feeling, turn down your feeling, block your feeling in any way.

• Control the emtion won't change the outcome of things, but

1. You will feel a lot better.
2. Things won't get worse.

5 Guidposts of emotional self-control that help you cope with the unexpected situations.


A. Check your feelings. Are you calm?
B. Stop and think what you will wanna say and do before you do it. Does it make sense? (Do not avoid the problem) Give yourself an opportunity to express the situation honestly and clearly.
C. Consider the other people’s perspectives. Do they have points? And be Empathetical!
D. Act in a way that will make you proud!
E. Talk to God. (I add this extra point by myself. +_+ )

These 5 guidposts are cool. This is what I learned from the video at last "Applied Psychology".
I guess this is going to help me a lot in many ways. Tons of feelings will be going on at the same time while getting along with people or having a teamwork with them. If I know to cope with my emotion in different unexpected situations, I guess I won't have to be regretful a lot of times.

Good to learn about these new things. I will put these suggestions into action because I get tons of teamworks at college and probably at workplace in the future! My past school education and family education didn't teach me how to deal with the emotion. I guess the culture of Chinese/Taiwan just don't care about emotion. Instead of teaching students to how to cope with their emotions, the teachers would like to teach students how to get higher sores on exams. Thus, a lot of Taiwan students (and grow-ups) don't know how to deal with their emotions and others' emotions.

I was blocking my feelings a lot of times because I didn't wish to ruin the relationship with others. This way, I didn't express my feelings and my thoughts appropriately and clearly. I wasn't happy about how I dealt with this.
From now on, I wll act in a way that make me proud because Jesus is in me.

A record of daily emotions and reaction

This journal is one of my assignments in the class "Applied Psychology".

I found it is quite useful for a person to be aware of himself/herself.

Through this activity, I found I was very intense recently due to pressure. Also, I found I would be easily suffering from the headhead and stomachache under too much pressure.

I will keep doing the journal and include this format into what I want to say to God!

I would like Jesus to know what is all about me.

My 1st pray at weblog

Dear Lord Jesus,

I open the door of heart to receive You as my Savior and Lord.

I have a big difficulty and really need You right now. I am working on Americian Literature midterm take-home essay. This essay requires 3200 words. Gosh. (I am not Tom Cruise who is good at dealing with impossible missions!) I am full of fear and anxiety. I know it's a test from God and from my instructor of course. However, I can't do it all alone because my own power is really pitiful. With my own power, I am full of fear and anxiety. With God's power to help me, I will be full of courage and confidence. Besides, I haven't recover from the illness that I got on this friday. I feel dizzy and sleepy. (Look at the picture above, I cannot even see these authors cleary.) I feel like giving up all things, but I hope to act in a way like Christ in me. God, please give me your power to help my get this essay done as soon as possible!!! In 12 hrs, it's the deadline. Ｇod, please make Cecilia Liu, my instructor, give me one more week to finish this essay. In Jesus name, Amen.

Suggested Prayers

"Pray at all times." (1 Thes. 5:17) (Good News BIBLE in Todays' English Version)

"God knows your heart, and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attidtude of your heart."
I totally agree with the sentence that I found in the booklet of FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS.
Words can be deceiving at times, but heart is honest all the time.
I will give my heart to talk to God through prayers. I don't know when God will anwer my prayer, but I will keep doing it.

I am not familiar enough with the way of talking to God. So, I am going to make my own prayer according to the suggested forms of prayer listed in the following. :)

I found 2 suggested prayers :

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  Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sin and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to do. In Jesus name, Amen.
  



• God, I want a life of adventure! Jesus, I invite You into my heart and ask You to be Lord of my life. Direct my path. Increase my faith. Help me to make the right decisions about my future. Thank you for sending your Holy Spirit to be with me and guid me. In Jesus name, Amen.
  

Here's the chinese version:

• 神阿/主耶穌阿/親愛的天父, (To call the name of Jesus first)



• 我需要妳.我願意打開心門接受耶穌作我的就主和生命的主. (To express your acceptance of Jesus)



• 感謝你赦免我的罪 (To be thankful to Jesus)



• 求你管理我的ㄧ生,使我成為你所喜悅的人 (To express your need and "ask for anything that you wish")



• 奉主耶穌的名禱告,阿門 (In Jesus name, Amen.)

Humm... It looks like talking to God is not that complicated as I thought.

Good to know that! I will talk a lot then. :)

Get started!

Dear God,

You creates me, and I get this blog for you. :)

Building a relationship requires well communication without hidding things and lies.

I want to build my personal relationship with Jesus.

So, I need to communicate with Him.I was planning to talk to You by writing something on my first blog in Blogspot.(http://ohmygoshla.blogspot.com/)

However, that blog was registered for my Junior research paper.I am going to use this blog to communicate with God!!!

• Here are several reasons that I get a new blog for God:


• I feel unsafe being open in my first blog because my instructor and my peers will check to see what I've written and what they expect to see is all about RP.


• I create this blog because I want to be open to God. I want to talk everything to God. I won't hide anything becasue I am not talking to the public and the public won't see me here! Once I feel very safe, and I'll be very open.


• Everyone is not perfect, and I am not perfect, either. I know God accepts every part of me. I have faith in God, and I trust Him. So, I open the door of my life and my heart to God here. Nothing including imperfectness will be hidden!
  

It's good to get a real start to share things with God.
I will see myself in the way how God sees me. I am important because God sees me as an important person! I receive God, so God no longer see me and my sin. God see Jesus in me!