 Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 143 and we are going to talk about stay grounded in stressful moments. Actually stressful moments, we have a trial period in which sometimes our mind can react differently and we might go under the situation of amygdala hijack. So we have to be careful about it. When we analyze these things in stressful moments, when we see situations in stressful moments and the amygdala hijack is taking place, at that time our rational mind might not be able to analyze the things in a rightful manner. In that situation, there are certain things that we need to go for, there are certain aspects that we need to understand, for example that emotional self-regulation is an essential life skill, that you have to keep your emotions in control in everyday life and this is part of life in which we think and react in different ways. The second thing you need to come up with is basically the understanding that as soon as you are having some emotion which is not actually desired, then what you can do you can stop and breathe. When you stop and breathe, then at that time your mind can have a gap of relaxation, can have few moments to re-align itself and that hijack can stop actually happening over there. The third thing, what you can do, to increase your awareness, you can ask different questions to yourself. For example, what you were thinking at that time, why you were thinking this thing because by asking yourself different questions, your mind will start operating consciously again and you will be able to get out of that hijack. Another important thing is that when you are able to identify your emotions, you have to acknowledge them, you have to understand them, you have to know what is your emotion and how you have to tackle it. A glass of water, a deep breath, a time of pause, all these things can be techniques that can help you to re-configure yourself and bring your capabilities back to life. Remember another thing, when you have to tackle your amygdala hijack, you have to bring your conscious mind back to your conscientious perspectives, then realize one important thing, that this situation would also pass because nothing is forever. Every situation, every perspective, every problem, it will never end. So keep this idea in your mind, keep this perspective in your mind that this situation would also pass and when you understand this, your positive thinking will trigger. Another important thing is that you investigate your thoughts, you identify which stimulus that you tackle, which stimulus that causes stress and anxiety for you and when you are able to identify them, then you can generate strategic options about tackling them. Likewise remember that you have to trust yourself, you will have to bring your own self-confidence. You have to come up with your self-efficacy that yes, I can do it because until you can do it, you will be able to surrender yourself in front of your emotions and you will not be able to tackle situations. So it is important to understand your emotions to bring your appropriate action. Likewise remember that sometimes you get involved in this situation in which small small perspectives are going to affect you a lot. So you have to clear about your little pressures, you have to know which triggers that bring you anxiety, frustration, tension, and burnout. Because we have to be more conscious about those things that we think are small perspectives because those small aspects sometimes generate big reactions and outcomes for us. Dear students, if we conclude all of this, then remember that the things that arise in life are sensitive and we should understand them on a conscious level. And one more important thing is that it is very important to be careful about the small aspects in life because those smaller aspects sometimes accumulate and cause the root cause of bigger decisions.