Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings (Mastery Series)

I bought this book because my therapist recommended it, and honestly, it was life-changing. I’ve struggled with controlling my emotions for years, partly because my parents were very controlling and manipulative—they often told me how to feel. As an adult, that made emotional control really difficult. This book helped me so much. It’s practical, easy to read, and didn’t take long to get through. I even passed it on to my mom, and she really enjoyed it too. It helped us dig into some deep issues and start making positive changes in our relationship. The price was very reasonable, and the quality of the book is great. I highly recommend this for anyone wanting to better understand and manage their emotions.

Thibaut Meurisse's Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings (Mastery Series) is a highly recommended book to commence with, as it provides valuable assistance, contingent upon one's self-control and willingness to attain mastery of self-realization, self-control, and life transformation, in accordance with the principles outlined in Master Your Emotions. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power" – Lao Tzu. "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile" – Plato. "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control—these three alone lead life to sovereign power" – Alfred Tennyson.

A great read. But I must say there were so many grammatical errors it was difficult to not get distracted sometimes. I looked past that and got the Information I needed though.

Great information and guided view on emotions. Ways to use them and to be more self aware. I definitely recommend if your searching and come across this book to give it a read.

i suffer from bipolar 2 and this book is great to help navigate my emotions.

Master your emotions is a good book from my perspective. Thibaust Meurisse does a great job at giving practical advice on the art of mastering your emotions. Thibaust argues in the first chapter that emotions have a big influence on our survival mechanism making it an inevitable part of the human experience. The problem lies with our interpretations of certain stimuli, the ones we create by the formula he uses “i+i+r=se” , a very profound equation. The equation represents Interpretation plus identification plus repetition equals a very strong emotion. He argues we have 2 types of emotions, the first being your spontaneous emotions, for example the emotions that kept us alive such as fear our ancestors felt when they encountered a sabor tooth tiger. The second are the ones we create from the equation (i+i+r=se). I found it extremely helpful to use this formula in my life, not just for emotions, this also works for thoughts. You can't control the thoughts coming in, having nearly 60,000 per day, scientists say but you can use this formula to not let certain ones hinder your growth, destination, love and compassion. Just like the quote “You can't control a bird from flying over your head, but you can control it from building a nest”. Or you can't control your first thought but you can control your second. The equation Thisbaust presents is in alignment of being the master of both emotions and thoughts. Understanding the way emotions are formed you are simply 100% able to analyze the “feeling” of your emotions because like Thibaust Meaurisse says in chapter 2 “The way you interpret emotions, as well as the blame game you engage in, creates suffering, not the emotions themselves”. Another chapter that helped me was chapter 21 on why we get defensive. Thibaut argues there are 3 reasons why we get defensive that I totally agree upon, 1 they're telling the truth, 2 you believe there is part of the truth, or one of your core beliefs have been attacked. Each reason stems from the ego or what he calls your story. When you get defensive, look at the situation that triggered you, ask yourself why? What belief led you to defend yourself? Can you let go of this belief? And is this belief really true? Most cases you do not have to defend yourself. He also points out that problems don't exist because what you don't focus on does not exist. So a problem only exists if you give it attention, from your mind's perspective what you don't give any thought to does not exist. And to go even further a problem only exist when you interpret a situation as being a problem for example 2 young men growing up in the projects, 1 consider his environment a factor to his growth in life, the 2nd considers his environment as just a obstacle to his growth in life. In chapter 12 he goes in depth about how to change those interpretations because our interpretations is what makes it a problem. Thibaut quotes Eckhart Tolle quite a few times, I can tell he had a big influence on the book, specifically Eckhart Tolle famous “The Power Of Now” making some of the work repetitive if you have read the power of now, and or all ready have a fundamental understanding of emotions. Thibaut does break down emotions on a very standard and basic level of understanding. He doesn't really pull out a lot of interesting research on the topic, he simply wrote a book about emotions with a few practical tips on how to master while quoting multiple people in the process and giving it his interpretation. I’m sure this is why the majority of those who don't really feel the book because while reading it feel like the work wasn't difficult to put together. On a good note to end my book review Thibaut chapter 23 called “ Caring what people think of you” was a short but extremely important chapter, probably my favorite. Understanding that you are the most important person in the world, you will stop caring so much about other people's perspectives when it comes to you. You have to live with yourself 24/7 since you do. We often incorrectly assume people think about us more often than they do. Thibaut says in fact they dont care about you, in actuality every person is only concerned with themselves because they have to live with themselves 24/7. While it may sound depressing it's actually liberating, Thibaut says because you don't have to worry about what people think of you. For example how often do you go on with your day thinking about somebody, often not as much and simply because we have to live with ourselves 24/7, deal with our own issues and pay our own bills.

Love the book!

I'm a very emotional person so this year I decided to work on that since I'm a student where I cannot let my emotions come to my way. I bought this book almost a year ago and finally convinced myself to read it and I LOVE IT. Every single words is useful. I won't say this book will give your superpower to master your emotions right away but definitely help you to improve your habits on how to control them and at the end it's you who needs to implement those rules to actually master your emotions. This book helps me to improve myself mentally and emotionally and I believe it will help you too. If you are thinking about reading self improvement books give this a try, please.

Interessante.

The books is great, the author describes what emotions are, what impacts our emotions, hot to change emotions and how to use emotions to grow. It is very easy to understand but so deep. The book explains thinks in a easy and clear way but it really helps. It is also very structured and there are questions/exercises to reflect on the topics and to improve. Just a great book. I would buy it again. I highly recommend it.

Thank you for this amazing book. Its simple and clearly described. Incredibly important

Excellent book. Very well written. I couldn't put this book down. Very informative, thought provoking amd mentally stimulating. Great practically exercises. Many great real life examples. I will definitely be reading this book again and take notes. Many practical ideas given, and skills suggested to utilize. Highly recommend this book and I will be order more books by this author. Very easy read, yet highly intellectual. Very well written. I love this book. Very happy with the purchase and recommend to family and friends a like. It's one of those books that make you think "Everyone should read this book".

I bought this book last year. (I wrote a similar review on the audio book.) It took some months to learn to recognize things like feeling cold or warm or pain as the things that I had not been focussing on. Mislabeling these as fear and anger and such. Better processing and parsing thoughts and input from my senses and input from my environment, has gotten a lot better. Being able to carve a path successfully through the days and hopefully road ahead. I started buying and listening and reading to a lot more books. But this one is a marker for me now. Listening to the audio version today again. Bad sleep and chronic pain is stil a problem. Chronic lack of sleep is I think the main cause of psychotic symptoms where I stil take medicines for. The books starts out with the fact that there are things that are not being taught at schools and at home. So true!