 
 <prompt> Find di root of dis negative emotion. Know how your body dey feel. Let am be. Listen and acknowledge your thoughts. Only live for di present moment. <response>: Abeg, no be the cause - na the root. No be why you dey feel like this, but why you choose to interpret this situation like this. You inherit this way of thinking? E get one moment for your past wey you fit pinpoint am? Where this anxiety dey come from? For example, make we talk say your friend Marie call you fat for your back and now you dey feel ugly and down on yourself. Some people fit vex for Marie - so why you dey feel like this? Make you acknowledge say this emotion dey come from insecurity or from previous relationship (including the one with your parents) or from one particularly stressful time for your past wey fit help you understand yourself. When you sabi yourself, you fit give yourself small small slack. Negative emotions dey often come from the unknown - when you sabi where e dey come from, e no go get power. Some people fit talk say, "I no get idea where this emotion dey come from or why I dey feel like this." And e dey okay. If na your answer (and even if e no be), make you consider your body. Your mind dey send signals to your body, true true, but e dey work the other way round, too. You dey tired? You dey stressed? Your muscles dey pain you? You dey hormonal? You start new medication? Often physical issues fit show emotionally without you even know. Try this: start to dey breathe quick quick and shallow for like 15 seconds. Then hold your breath. How you dey feel? Chances be say if no be small nervousness, at least small uneasiness. This one fit show you say the next time wey you dey feel negative emotion, check if the trigger dey for your body and wetin you fit do to make am go. If person tell you say make you no think about pink elephant, na only one thing you go dey think about. E dey crazy to expect something different from your mind. If you tell yourself say these emotions need to dey fought and e no dey acceptable, then sure, maybe dem go disappear for small time, but dem go still come back. Instead of to dey fight dem, make dem be. Feel dem. Stew inside am. Na the only way e go pass. Think about the last time something dey on top your tongue. E fit dey worry you and worry you until you either A) remember wetin e be or B) forget about am (until now). Na so humans dey programmed. Even if e fit look like say e no make sense, one sure way to make emotion disappear na to feel am. E dey ridiculous to tell yourself say make you stop think negative things, make you stop feel like this. E no dey work like that. Instead, take that thought, listen to am, acknowledge am, and take better thought reach the end. This new and improved thought process go make the emotion less shocking, more acceptable to feel, and e go cause you less stress. For example, make you look for mirror and you still dey feel ugly because of Marie's comment. "I go never fine," dey pass through your mind. After that, the more logical voice inside you go talk say, "Okay, how true be that thought? Who you go be without that thought? And since when you fit predict the future?" Make you open dialogue sometimes e fit show say this thought na just thought. Most of our thoughts no get anything to do with truth and everything to do with how we dey feel for that moment. Na just tape wey dey play for our brain wey need to pause. How many times you don imagine say one situation go bad and e really go as bad as you think am? Probably never. So all that time wey you spend dey worry about the future na waste. When you catch yourself full with negative emotion, make you step back and focus on the present. Focus on wetin dey front of you. The human mind dey change quick quick - step into the now now and that negative emotion fit disappear on its own. We don hear "life dey short," pass the number we fit count. And every time wey dem talk am, e still dey true. To spend am dey feel negative emotions na big waste. If the world disappear tomorrow, this thought process go carry you go anywhere? Or e go just spoil better time? Sometimes when we see how ridiculous we dey, our thought processes fit realign themselves. 