Control over Emotions

We human beings deal with emotions day in day out. Emotions are very precious and they do communicate the feelings with accurately. I will make an attempt to stress on importance of controlling emotions in different scenarios

Professional:
In workplace no matter how much we try not to take things personally, we fail doing so all the time. There would be scenarios when you feel frustrated by lack of cooperation from a colleague impacting our work, lack of understanding from manager on our personal commitments or lack of respect from the customer. It is natural to feel emotional during situations but one need to understand impact of display of emotion before doing so. A colleague rightly commented in recent team meeting “Unless you know to control your emotions, there is no growth”. Very much true indeed!! It is the cool headed people who will win in professional world. The winners do not display emotional side when faced with adverse situations and are rather busy in working out a way out of the situation. Also for most people emotion dampens thought process and thus comes in way of though process and so it must be avoided in work place where we should be result oriented.

Personal:
In personal life we go through lot of emotions that we encounter in our day to day interactions. The display or control of emotions has its impact on the relations we hold and so this must be judiciously and carefully done. In work place lack of emotional intelligence can cost a career, in personal life it can be even costlier and can make or break a relation. A display of adverse emotion in a hurry can sometimes strain a relation beyond a point and the damage can at times be irrepairable. So control over emotions in personal life is extremely important.

Spiritual:
In spiritual progress control over emotion is a must. Story of Viswamithra highlights importance of control of emotions. His tapasya got corrupted because of lack of control over anger and sense desires and had to start all over again. So Adi Sankara said

Kama Krodascha Lobhascha
Dehe Thistanthi Taskarah
Gnana Ratnapaharaya
Tasmat Jagrata Jagrata

The control over emotions comes a big way in spiritual progress and with out this one would lose the grip over spiritual progress. We usually find spiritually matured person in serene and calm mood more often which supports the case.