How do I suprres emotions ?

[Minato]

How do I supress my emotions at certain times? Is there any way? I'm young and I would like to know how.

[taylor]

Assuming you're not mentally insane, you already do it, albeit not perfectly. It's a forcing down of emotions, difficult to explain. You tense up and don't let them express through the body. This doesn't mean you are totally numb which is a more demanding and difficult thing to attain and it's damaging to your psyche.

There are times when you have to somewhat suppress emotional expression to prevent negative social consequences, but I recommend doing it as rarely as possible. Emotional suppression / repression is unhealthy as a long term coping strategy.

Why do you ask? What's going on?

[scotthegeek]

your emotions are there to tell you what you need. Its not about all or nothing I learning its about degree, is the amount of emotion useful at this point in time. I sometime get too overwhelmed to think straight and that not useful.

You may need to rain in your emotions at time to get thought a stressful situation but later its good to question that did I learn from this.

I'm on antidepressant and that has help balance things out its one of the best things I have ever did.

Scott

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by Minato

How do I supress my emotions at certain times? Is there any way? I'm young and I would like to know how.

"Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."~
Eckhart Tolle

[Fred Tracy]

Originally Posted by lifetimelearner

"Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."~
Eckhart Tolle

Oddly enough, as great is this advice is, it's not technically suppressing your emotions. In this way, you're recognizing them and processing them. This is much healthier than suppression.

A good rule of thumb is just not suppress your emotions. There really isn't ever a good enough reason to do it.

Why do you want to suppress them anyway?

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by Fred Tracy

Oddly enough, as great is this advice is, it's not technically suppressing your emotions. In this way, you're recognizing them and processing them. This is much healthier than suppression.

A good rule of thumb is just not suppress your emotions. There really isn't ever a good enough reason to do it.

Why do you want to suppress them anyway?

that was the whole point -not to suppress them

[Partaker]

Originally Posted by Minato

How do I supress my emotions at certain times? Is there any way? I'm young and I would like to know how.

I've always suppressed my emotions, since I was a child. I'm not sure exactly how I do it but I do not recommend it. It has caused me to have a terrible memory - I remember events of my past in bits and pieces.
Nowadays I am working on acknowledging my emotions and expressing them. The other night I felt like crying and I started to hold it back and and distract myself as usual but instead I let it out and actually felt refreshed and happier afterwards.

I think there is a fine balance but constant suppression has definitely been harmful to my mind.

[lifetimelearner]

you guys should read Amazon.com: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (9781577314806): Eckhart Tolle: Books
and Amazon.com: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) (9780452289963): Eckhart Tolle: Books

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by Minato

How do I supress my emotions at certain times? Is there any way? I'm young and I would like to know how.

Don't suppress them...just see them as clouds passing by and let them pass. It's your choice to attach to an emotion or to see that with enough time, the mind will be off into some other direction and the emotion will go away with the thought.

If you decide to remember the loss of a loved one, you can get your mind to create emotions that are associated with that memory. Change the subject in your mind and the emotion changes.

It's an identification game. The emotions are ways the mind uses the body to convey what is happening in the mind. We can suppress that display but that isn't what I'm saying to do. I'm saying you can walk away from the thought that creates the emotion, then you're not suppressing anything...you're not using willpower to stop the body from expressing the mind emotionally.