Is any person in control of their emotions?”
People often naturally react in emotional ways to the things and people around them. To a large extent, those reactions are natural, healthy and even necessary to survival. But it is possible for people to learn to control their emotions, especially their intensity. This can be a very valuable skill, because emotions such as anger, sorrow, despair, and hopelessness, when excessively intense, can reduce or eliminate one’s ability to function. There are several ways to do that. One way is identifying so called “hot” thoughts, or thoughts that trigger intense emotions in people. People often claim that situations or other people trigger their emotions, and sometimes that is true, but often the situation triggers a hot thought, which then triggersn an emotion. For example, when a high school student is noisy and rambunctious in class, the teacher might have the “hot” thought that the student doesn’t respect the teacher, and so might become angry. In this technique the teacher might first l
