Most people think emotions and habits are independent of one another. It's easy to think of acquiring action habits or thinking habits, but not emotional habits.
There's an axiom that goes, "Emotions are deepened through repitition." If you allow a certain feeling to take hold of you, it will become easier to yield to that particular emotion the next time, and then again, until that emotion becomes "second nature" to you.
For example, if you succumb to a fit of anger that turns into rage, you'll find it easier to become angry the next time on something even less trivial.
Remember this phrase whenever you feel a change in your disposition - How it starts determines it's journey. If you feel a change in your disposition, recognize the change. DECIDE to change it's course of direction and eventually you will have mastered that emotion. What a great feeling of accomplishment that will be!
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