#emotional regulation

• To exercise self-control — To exercise control over oneself, to dominate, restrain, or curb one's instinctive urges and impulsive reactions through conscious willpower. It implies a rapid internal evaluation and the adjustment of behavior to align with ethical, social norms, or long-term personal goals.
• To master oneself — To exercise full and conscious control over one's own impulses, emotions, desires, or instinctive reactions; to master or govern oneself through sheer willpower, preventing violent or chaotic outward manifestations in moments of crisis.
• Self-mastery — The act of self-mastering and its result; the conscious and voluntary process of exercising control over one's own behavior, affective states, and thoughts, representing the foundation of stoicism and emotional self-control.
• Self-mastered — Having mastered or controlled oneself through personal willpower; a person or character who has managed to subordinate emotional impulses, desires, and instinctive drives to rigorous reason or a stable set of moral principles.
• To self-induce emotion — To induce a state of deep emotion, sensitivity, or inner agitation in oneself through one's own thoughts, memories, imaginative scenarios, or mental representations, without the direct presence of a triggering affective stimulus in the external environment.
• To self-soothe — To regain one's calm, inner balance, or mental peace through one's own conscious effort, without resorting to external factors, medications, or interventions from other people; to manage states of anxiety, panic, or anger through subjective emotional self-regulation techniques. In cognitive-behavioral psychology, the term describes an individual's ability to restructure catastrophic thoughts and utilize breathing or meditation to decrease the activation of the sympathetic nervous system.
• Self-soothed — That has quieted down, calmed down, or regained its state of emotional balance through its own psychological resources and reflexive efforts, independent of external influences or aid. The term describes a person who has overcome an anxiety crisis or a state of inner agitation by resorting exclusively to subjective mechanisms of cognitive or physiological self-regulation.