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    do you believe emotions are fixed facts or flexible? in other words, do you think everyone is capable of controlling their emotions with an open mind, or that emotions are entirely influenced by environment/circumstances?

    discuss or whatever
     
    I don't think you can control, but you can deal with them and if you do it perfectly, you can be cold when it takes, yet, a nice person. That's what I think.
     
    You can manipulate your emotions as much as you want. If you get a crummy gift, you still say thank you with a smile on. At the same time, you can chose to let your emotions fly out. It's all up to you. Some people have a better time with controlling there emotions than others do. It is just one more thing that makes everyone special.
     
    As an angrophobe, I'm a master of controlling my emotions. I refuse to get angry no matter what's happening. So yeah, I think it's possible to control one's own emotions. ~

    *Starts singing "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" because the title is from that song (Or at least in it)*
     
    Emotions are totally a responsive phenomenon and are the result of an environment and circumstances. You cannot choose your emotions. That being said, your environment will naturally include your thoughts and attitudes - and these do play a big role. Indirectly, you can influence your emotions. If you're mad, you can think calming thoughts; if you're sad, you can think of what you do have. You can't directly say "stop being mad" or curb that sadness at the neurological level (well, except with narcotics), but you can alter your voluntary thoughts to affect your involuntary emotions. The ability of people to do this, like with pretty much everything, varies significantly, though.
     
    Not everyone can master their emotions. Sometimes emotions must be felt!

    In most situations, if you can control your emotions, you can limit the damage that negative emotions can do. That being said, even if you've got complete control over your emotions, THERE WILL BE a situation where you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT CONTROL THEM!
     
    Emotions are natural responses based on established protocalls of behaviour — culture. Because we are taught X is bad and/or Y is good, and it is reinforced by others following suit, we think and feel that way too.
    If you find yourself a people that revere death as a sacred event, they won't be saddened by their family members falling; conversely among a people as our own that attempts to shield persons from these things, and tells us they are negative affairs, reactions to it will be much different.

    There are exceptions, of course, for this is not a physical law in reality. Everyone's different, as they say.
     
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    I think they are flexible, some people can control them, some people can't.
    As for me I can control them to some extent.
     
    I do believe that one can control their emotions with a flexible, open-mind... but I also believe that it takes a lot of confidence, reassurance, stability, and "practice" to do so. I myself lack emotional stability, so I tend to ignore people who tell me "You're only LETTING the problem bother you..." While that is probably true, how am I supposed to NOT let it bother me...? It takes a lot of self-confidence and practice to keep your head up and your thoughts high and truly not let anything or anyone bother you. You know what I mean?
     
    It's possible, but I'm so bad at it. I always end up showing what I'm feeling when I'm feeling it somehow. :/
     
    Emotions are based influenced by surroundings and time.

    Some times, people are not able to control themselves, after all it's human nature. xD
     
    Yes, we can always control our emotions, depending on the level of your mastery of it and the environment. I for example, can easily calm down after getting mad at someone who touches my laptop if he/she had a valid reason.
     
    I think everyone can control their emotions, some people just don't know it and others choose to use emotions as an excuse for things. I guess it's not so much saying 'Oh, I will be happy' as looking for reasons to be happy. There's always reasons to feel any emotion at any single time, so the individual can look for these reasons and therefore change their emotion.
    It's sorta like how, if you're trying to fake-cry on stage or something, you think of something sad to make yourself cry... but more realistic and for any emotion. I do it a lot :3
     
    We can control our actions and try to avoid situations and thoughts that we expect will cause us to feel emotions we don't want to feel, but I don't think we can willfully change our brain chemistry in a simple "I don't want to feel sad so *click* I'm not sad anymore." We can still do things that make us feel happy though, and that can mitigate the sadness. The same is probably true with other feelings.
     
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