How to step back when you lose composure?

In this article, you will learn how to step back when you lose your composure. Slow down your thoughts. When we act in haste without taking the time to think, our decisions reflect our state of mind: they are hasty and not necessarily the right ones.

What does it mean to step back when you lose your composure?

Taking a step back is, above all, taking the time to question yourself. Take the expression in the true sense of the term by visualizing things as a whole, and analyzing them. The result? By putting the situation into perspective, we keep our calm, and our self-confidence to make the right decision, and above all, we get rid of the impression of drowning and losing lucidity.

Under heavy pressure, it's easy to get lost in the operation. With your nose to the grindstone, you never take the time to get up and look around. If, in addition, you are hot-blooded - a tendency to react emotionally and strongly - this internal dissociation is particularly difficult. Taking a step back or taking height is, in fact, techniques that make it possible to gauge a situation from different angles, to get out of the spiral of emotion, or the pressure that submerges us, and to regain our power and our lucidity.

To move forward, you have to take a step back. Because to step back is to gain momentum.

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Here are the steps to step back when you lose your composure:

1. Horizontal way

The first level of stepping back, and the easiest to master, is about widening the frame. We zoom out, as with a camera to which we would have added a wide-angle lens. Then, the attachment point becomes smaller and fits into a larger whole. This helps put things in perspective and to see the systemic impact of the subject/problem on the immediate environment.

2. Vertical way

You have to look from above, as by zooming out on your "Maps" application. You go into a balloon or satellite vision. The point you fix becomes infinitely small as you rise, and fits into a large-scale system. It is a good way to cut yourself off from the emotional feeling that pollutes you, but also to become aware of the global whole in which the situation is part.

3. Temporal way

A more elaborate exercise, is a question of recording the point in time on the scale of your life. Has a similar situation already happened? Were there several? Do they form a repetitive pattern, as if you were spinning on a merry-go-round? This allows you to understand the dynamics, learn from what you have already experienced, and act to get off the ride permanently.

4. Emotional way

It is the ultimate distance when you are hot-blooded. It's about creating an internal dissociation to eliminate polluting emotions. Imagine that you are looking at yourself in the situation you are experiencing, from the outside, through a screen. This mechanically cuts off any overflow of emotion. The technique is to choose in advance the angle of observation, the point of view in space to watch the scene you live in. Install and activate an Internal Referee who will give you the "Top start." You will see that the effect will be immediate.

If you have particular difficulties keeping your composure, use the emergency technique called "Freeze." It consists of injecting freon (refrigerant gas) into your emotional powerhouse when instructed by your Referee when you are about to explode. The temperature of the blood drops, you slow down your speech rate and your movements, and you ask to take a break.

Some people program a specific alert that they activate on their phones when necessary. "Freeze!" does not mean that you freeze as if petrified. Rather, it is a drop in emotional temperature that represents an intense interior change, not total immobilization.

In short, train yourself to soften your vision and be able to juggle easily with all possible points of view.

To step back when you lose composure, here are some things you can do:

1. Activate your internal referee

Your interior bodyguard is responsible for your safety and can activate the step back protocol in its various forms. Set it up, give it a face that speaks to you (such as a film character, a loved one, or an animal), and instruct it to help you in difficult situations and to "wake you up" when you lose composure and lucidity.

2. Exercise regularly

Start by training to step back and gain height and function with your Referee in medium-difficulty situations. Then, when you reach the autopilot stage, try it with more difficult situations. Like all mastery, self-control is the result of intense practice.

3. Take back the power

Tell yourself that your inner self belongs to you and that the emotions that inhabit it, no matter how strong, are under your control. Therefore, it is necessary to clean it regularly. To do this, the recipe is simple: distance yourself from the negative (emotions, elements), relativize it by gaining height and perspective, and on the contrary, maximize and focus on the positive by zooming in on it.

To learn more, read this article:

https://mentalaccelerator.com/resource/keeping-your-cool/i-have-tunnel-vision-when-under-pressure