Validate your emotions

Practice distinguishing how you feel physically from how you feel emotionally. Because many negative emotional states develop out of a misinterpretation of a physical feeling.

It’s dangerous to assume that physical feelings and emotional feelings are always related. Sometimes a headache ...

Emotions don’t actually last very long. It’s in the nature of emotions to be intense but fleeting:

• If you feel upset emotionally, notice what the dominant emotion you’re feeling is.
• Rate the intensity of that emotion on a scale from 1 to 10.
• Set a timer on your p...

Use plain language. The more fluent you are with real emotional language, the more clearly you will be able to think about how you’re feeling.

Get used to the idea of emotional complexity. When we feel upset, we're not feeling one single emotion. We are usually experiencing a blend of many emotions.

Training ourselves to look for and see this emotional complexity is key to better understanding ourselves when we’re upset and...

We all tend to have a particular emotion that they’re especially afraid of and try to avoid.

Identifying your own personal emotional kryptonite is important because many of our bad decisions and ill-advised behaviors are actually the results of trying to avoid particularly uncomfortable ...