Breaking The Electric Box Assignment

Before we begin, I would personally like to say that this was a great assignment for me and my colleagues to do. I say this because, everyone needs to have an understanding on how their thoughts influence their emotions. It is something that is always overlooked, and something that we all as human beings can improve on. Why? For the simple fact, that gaining a better understanding of your thoughts, could possibly allow you to handle things easier in your future. And I honestly believe that this assignment will allow us to do so. The emotions that I will cover in this paper are, being blamed for breaking the electric box, my friend telling his grandma about something that was only supposed to stay between me and him/getting back to my mom, …show more content…
it basically revolved around me telling my friend some very important stuff that wasn’t supposed to stay just between me and him. Turns out he had other plans, he told his grandmother about our conversation, and it got back to my mother. Not only did things get back to her, but a lot of words got messed up in the process. Knowing that he told his grandmother about our conversation after I told him to keep this between me and him, made me extremely angry. So, angry that my emotion level was a high 95%! The funny thing about this situation was, before I received the message from my mom, I was laying on the couch texting the friend that told his grandmother about something that she wasn’t supposed to know. Why was I angry? I was angry because, it was something that he sworn not to mention to anymore. Him doing this made one of my irrational beliefs present. And that irrational belief was catastrophizing, it just made me think “Nothing is going to go right for the rest of the day.” Those thoughts appeared because, I had the assumption that my mother was going to come in the house and yell at me. The good thing is she yelled at me through via text. I replaced these thoughts with a positive thought and that thought was, to think that maybe she will forget about it before she comes home. Similar, to my first emotion, I had the same irrational idea as I did and my previous emotion, and that was Sense of duty. So, happen to be the case because, I kept saying to myself, I should find a way to fix this, I ought to tell him to call my mom and sort things out, and I must find a reason for me to leave the house. Self-talk helped me tremendously in this situation, I say this because it allowed me not to get even madder at my friend. What did I say to myself? I am so glad that you asked, I said “I understand that you’re upset… and I understand that it is extremely hard to contain your composer…