You may feel intensely emotional today, and your forceful response to the stimuli you encounter as you go about your duties can heighten any agitation you already experienced. This tendency to overreact to simple situations can leave you feeling vulnerable, as you may believe that everyone around you has power over your feelings. Yet you may be particularly excitable today precisely because you feel you have lost control. Regaining a sense of personal autonomy can be as easy as examining your feelings to discover the root of your reactivity. As you become more familiar with the elements shaping your emotions, you will likely feel less of a need to respond to slights, whether real or perceived.

Oversensitivity is not always indicative of heightened personal vulnerability; we may inadvertently react strongly to something that was not meant to awaken our ire. It is our emotional state rather than any tangible outer-world factors in our existence that prompt us to see ill meanings in the words and actions of others. Consequently, we can cope with intensely affecting moods easily by recognizing that many of our stronger feelings are the result of internal issues we have not yet chosen to address. We can then analyze the circumstances before us in a logical fashion so that we may determine whether the cause of our irritation was worthy of our attention and worthy of the intensity of our emotional reaction. You will be less prone to overreaction today once you have adopted a rational view where the world outside of yourself is concerned.