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Letting go of painful emotions (regulating emotions for resiliency)
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Kannika Nimithkoune Posts: 67
10/30/2020
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Self-regulation is all about pausing between feeling and reactions – it encourages us to slow down for a bit and act after objectively evaluating a situation. It is crucial to judge when to trust emotional triggers and when to act on them.
For example, a person who has poor emotion regulation strategies is more likely to fall prey to mood polarities; his actions and behavioral patterns would always be at the mercy of his emotions.
Quite the contrary, a well-regulated person, will have a better balance and judgment of his feelings and actions. Emotional regulation allows us to carefully judge which affective outcomes to embrace and which ones to avoid
https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-regulation/
How to let go of painful emotions
-Observe your emotion. Stand back.
-Experience your emotion as a wave, coming and going.
-Don't push away your emotion. Accept it.
-Don't judge your emotion. It's not good or bad
-Don't hang on to your emotion.
-Try not to intensify your emotion. Let it be how it is.
-Remember that you are not your emotion.
-Remember that you don't necessarily have to act on your emotion.
-Practice loving your emotions.
https://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/letting_go.html
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