To compartmentalize your emotions is to gather up all the emotions and thoughts in your mind and store them somewhere else such that they do not affect your activities in different parts of your life. In more practical terms, compartmentalization is essentially denying unnecessary emotions the attention they so hungrily seek.

Now, do not get us wrong. If you choose to compartmentalize your emotions, it is very different from locking away your emotions and running away from dealing with them. No, that is and always will be unhealthy. The whole purpose of compartmentalization is to prevent your emotions from preventing you from doing what you have to do. For example, if you’re at work, you’ll need to compartmentalize your emotions about your daughter’s cute little face as she waved you goodbye earlier this morning. You get the point now, right?

So, how exactly do you compartmentalize your emotions?

Identify the emotions that you can tend to at a different time.

If you want to do this, we’ll advise that you take your sweet time and try to picture the things that you want to compartmentalize. You can either write down or make a mental note of the things that you want to keep away from the forefront of your mind. This is a level of organization and planning that you need to compartmentalize.

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