Have you ever wondered how different your life if you were in total control of your emotions and feelings? Throughout your life, think about all the situations where your emotions have made you act or react in a certain way that you truly didn't want to. While academic ability can be important, it is now believed that in reality it is our ability to adapt to our social environment the better predictor of our future success in several areas of our lives, even more so than anything we learn in school. Here's some of what you can expect to learn inside the pages of this book: Discover how to turn your life around by learning effective methods to control our emotions. Understanding the ways that negative emotions impact our lives and rob us of our freedom. Proven ways to transform negative emotions and feelings into positive ones. Daily, easy to implement tips that will help you replace old habits with new ones. And much more! Negative emotions can have a strong impact on your life; they affect your mental, emotional, and physical health, as your mind and body are connected in a symbiotic way. Think about the times that you've been eager to do something, just to stop because of fear or guilt. Regardless of your personality, there are certain things you can practice in your day to day life to modify your behaviour and start getting the self-control you deserve back. There is no better time to start the journey towards an improved quality of life. Start by getting back the freedom and self-control you need in your life today!

This book develops an original control theory of the emotions and related affective states, providing new perspectives on how the mind works as a whole. Discussing pains and pleasures, moods and behaviours, and character and personality, the book will be important for readers interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of emotion.

In this groundbreaking social history, Carol and Peter Stearns trace the two hundred-year development of anger, beginning with premodern colonial America. Drawing on diaries and popular advice literature of key periods, Anger deals with the everyday experiences of the family and workplace in its examination of our attempts to control our domestic lives and lessen social tensions by harnessing emotion. Offering an entirely new approach to the study of emotion, the authors inaugurate a new field of study termed "emotionology," which distinguishes collective emotional standards from the experience of emotion itself.

"... a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones. To deepen students' understanding of how to self-regulate, the lessons set out to teach students these skills: how to read others' facial expressions and recognize a broader range of emotions, perspective about how others see and react to their behavior, insight into events that trigger their less regulated states, and when and how to use tools and problem solving skills. The curriculum's learning activities are presented in 18 lessons. To reinforce the concepts being taught, each lesson includes probing questions to discuss and instructions for one or more learning activities. Many lessons offer extension activities and ways to adapt the activity for individual student needs. The curriculum also includes worksheets, other handouts, and visuals to display and share. These can be photocopied from this book or printed from the accompanying CD."--Publisher's website.

This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive road map of the important and rapidly growing field of emotion regulation. Each of the 30 chapters in this handbook reviews the current state of knowledge on the topic at hand, describes salient research methods, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. The contributors—who are the foremost experts in the field—address vital questions about the neurobiological and cognitive bases of emotion regulation, how we develop and use regulatory strategies across the lifespan, individual differences in emotion regulation, social psychological approaches, and implications for psychopathology, clinical interventions, and health.