5 Habits That Can Make You Emotionally Unbreakable

Control how you feel about people's attitudes and negative experiences

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The ability to navigate your emotional rollercoaster in a healthy way is a superpower that only a few know how to tap into.

Life is full of twists and turns, and how you deal with these situations depends on mastering your emotions and how they affect you.

With the right habits, however, you can unlock your emotional superpower and take charge of your life.

Here are five habits that will help you do just that:

1. Change Your Internal Narrative

How you feel about what someone said or did to you is based on their interpretation or the story you tell yourself about that experience.

Your internal narration — the way you narrate the event in your mind — can be the reason why you feel hurt or wave it off as nothing.

Whenever something happens, say a colleague criticizes you in front of your boss, your brain will try to make sense of it by attaching a positive or negative meaning to it.

Unfortunately, our brains have a natural tendency to see the negative side of things. This unconsciously makes you interpret the person’s…