Control Your Emotions for Maximum Performance

Being in control of your emotions at all times is another important key to maximum performance. Controlling your emotions is not the same thing as suppressing them. Rather, I’m referring to a technique that will allow your emotions to easily pass through you as they happen so that you will not become so emotionally paralyzed, stressed, or unfocused that you cannot perform properly. If you cannot gain access to your emotions, acknowledge them, and process them, you lose energy because they move below the conscious level and become tied up somewhere inside, creating an energetic short circuit. The result is compromised performance.
In order to keep that short circuit from happening every time you encounter an emotional stressor, utilize an autohypnosis technique:
Squeeze your hand into a fist and release it five times, repeating the word control and consciously letting go of the stressor. Each time you do this, simply feel your emotions and your stress pass through you. Sometimes it helps to visualize your heart in your hand and to see yourself squeezing out the tension and gently releasing it.
Emotional equilibrium is key to achieving high performance.