Managing Your Emotions: Instead of Your Emotions Managing You

Liked the book but book was supposed to be “Like new,” yet there was underlining and notes on many pages in the book. Not sure who rated the book but they are way off base with a “Like new” condition stated.

..yo lo describiria como un manual para nuestra vida cotidiana ...nuestra vida esta llena de emociones buenas y malas y aprender a controlarlas es la clave no dejarnos llevar por los impulsos y aprender a escuchar a Dios , para actuar en el momento adecuado ...Joyce explica desde el punto de vista biblico como tomar autoridad sobre nuestras decisiones para alcanzar el exito dia a dia ...un manual para aprender como tomar control de nuestras situaciones cotidianas..Es un gran libro

I had been watching Joyce Meyer on television for many years. Her background of abuse and emotional turmoil was something that drew me to her. Emotionally, I had no connections. Not long ago I was in a season of emotional winter. Everything looked dark, cold and dreary. I had confessed many scriptures, read many books, but could not shake off my winter of discontent. I hate to admit it- but I was depressed. During this season I joined a book club and "Managing Your Emotions" was one of the books I selected. When it arrived I was a little hesitant to open it because I did not know how it was going to challenge me. I started reading it and I was able to identify with some destructive cycles that I was going around in. I was always getting my feelings hurt, feeling rejected, feeling alone and unwanted. Joyce went through those cycles especially in dealing with her husband, Dave. As I read the book I started to realize that if she overcame all of those things then I could too. There was no quick fix but she had to get in the word of God and start to believe what God said about her. She believed that God loved her and that he had good plans for her. She had to confess the scriptures daily and over a period of time she learned how to manage or take control over her feelings. One thing that she mentioned in her book that was extremely powerful for me was the fact that God gave us these emotions but we needed to know when to express them. I learned that I could get angry, only I should not stay in anger because it produces bitterness. This book really helped me and reading it was like a therapy session. Everyone who is breathing, has friends, families, children, co-workers etc. can benefit from reading this book. It might not be for you but it can help you to help someone else. It is information we all can use. (1-26-2004)

I am an atheist, a baptised Catholic turned non-believer. But I must admit, watching Joyce on the television with her direct no bologna methodology, I am swayed by her teachings because she speaks what she truly believes in, and its like having the mother I never had give me a good talking too. But, I'm too staunch in my belief to recant my atheism. I believe we are accountable for our own actions in this life which is a message I enjoy listening to in Joyce's teachings. Don't go blaming "God" for everything. Sooner or later, a person has to take it upon themselves to shape up and stop waiting for the Holy Spirit to do it for them. Like Joyce says in her Character of God teachings, you can be forgiven over and over, but eventually there has to be a point where someone close to that person says, enough, it's time to pay for some of those 'sins'. I found this book to be very helpful, even though of course, written with Christian guidance and scripture, nonetheless effective methods to help one learn to take their emotions in hand, and as always, take responsiblity for your actions and reactions. I really recommend Joyce to everyone of every faith or nonfaith. She's the mom you never had - tough love.

Emotions, what a powerful tool God has equiped us with. I find myself reading a portion of the book and then going back and re-reading it, because of how it has spoken to me. I am reminded of an illustration she uses in the first part of the book talking about emotions and how messed up they can be. She talks about different sizes, shapes, and colors of shoe strings and how they are all knotted together. She further tells how you don't just straighten them out all at once, it is a process of untangling the strings, one-at-a-time. How clever! Our emotions do get all tangled and knotted, and we think we can just fix them all at once. Not so!I pray that you will read this and realize, as I have, that God gave us emotions and we are to hand them over to Him and let him teach us how to manage them as he originally had planned.

Joyce Meyer is an amazing, annointed teacher whose casual style and relatability is so attractive.This book, like all her teaching, is written as if you were sitting in the room with her having a chat. She tells it like it is and teachs from God's Word with principles to manage your emotions as Jesus did.If you ever get depressed or angry or sad or frustrated when you don't want to - Joyce will set you straight and help you live a life controlled by the Spirit and not your emotions.