Mental Health
Here’s How I Tame the Limbic System to Regulate My Emotions in 10 Steps.
The key to personal and professional success is understanding and managing our emotions and aligning them with others.
The body and mind are tightly connected to create emotions, feelings, and sensations. Taming the emotional part of the brain (limbic system) looks more complex and time-consuming than training the thinking part. But it is doable with a methodical approach, healthy habits, and professional support.
What we do, what we think, what we eat and drink, how we breathe, how much we sleep, and how we move our bodies can change brain chemistry and impact the limbic system. Thus, I focus on lifestyle habits when looking into emotions and feelings.
I deliberately use the term tame in the heading of this story because our emotional system is metaphorically wild. Looking at the brain as a whole is essential to see the complete picture.
As I introduced managing the thinking brain in previous articles, I will not repeat them. However, we can leverage the power of the thinking brain to train our emotional brain, as I touch on in a few sections below.
