Emotional mastery means to master one's emotions.
For example we all want to lose weight... Do we know why we want to lose weight?
Is it just to have less fat on your body? Or is it because of the way you would feel if you freed yourself of those unwanted pounds? giving yourself more energy and vitality, making yourself more attractive to others, and boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
Virtually everything we do is to change the way we feel. Too many of us leave ourselves at the mercy of outside events over which we may have no control, failing to take charge of our emotions - over which we have all the control, and relying instead on short-term quick fixes.
How else can we explain the fact that, while less that 5% of the world's population lives in the United States, we consume more than 50 percent of the world's cocaine? Or that our national defense budget which currently runs in the billions, is equaled by what we spend on alcohol consumption? Or that 15 million Americans are diagnosed every year as clinically depressed, and more that $500 milllion worth of prescriptions are written for antidepressant drugs...
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