Among the defects that impede the control of the mind and emotional stability we have the excessive impressionability and emotionality of some subjects.
Paul C. Jagot said: "The subject of lively emotion and imagination and who reacts too violently and too intensely to the impressions he experiences is extremely difficult to achieve emotional and moral stability, as well as the achievement of their ideas, and the regularity of execution in what he has decided.
The impressionability and emotionality produce in him, the effect of multiple successive air currents and oriented in different directions, creating forces that act in the opposite direction of the reflective impulse and in which he tries to concentrate. "
In this sense, Jagot recommends, apart from auto-suggestion and mental attention, physical exercise that can have a sedative effect and serve to reduce this sensitivity.
Beyond the cases of very impressionable people and therefore more exposed to lack of control, other people may be able to handle their reactions through reasoned autosuggestion.
Reasoned auto-suggestion allows one to realize all the disadvantages and disturbances involved in being too impressionable. This auto-suggestion carries with it the seed of self-control, which in turn requires discipline in the self-monitoring of thoughts when they tend to deviate in a reverse sense to that of reasoning or analysis.
At night a realistic analysis of the degree of emotionality and impressionability that have been generated throughout the day must be carried out. If any event, situation or setback has seemed to affect your lucidity, detéctelo to recognize and mitigate it in a next opportunity, after that, the attention should focus on the next objective of your daily activity.
With this, only a few seconds are dedicated to the fact that it affected our lucidity, it is marked as a point to correct, but the matter is not given more thought, we continue with the thought in the following work. This is a way of getting used to attenuate the impressionability and emotion in order to have a more controlled and relaxed life.