Labeling difficult emotions
An important way of dealing with a difficult emotion is to label it effectively.
Labeling your emotions more accurately helps you understand the cause of those emotions and triggers your ability to set goals and to make real concrete changes.
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Labeling Emotions
You don’t have to feel your counterpart’s emotions to understand them better. You can label them. It means validating and acknowledging them.
The most effective labels of emotions start with phrases like:
- It seems like… you feel ...
- It sounds like… you feel ...
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- Every feeling begins with a stimulus.
- The stimulus leads to an unfelt emotion in the brain.
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How To Handle Difficult Emotions
- We need to be compassionate and kind with the way we handle our difficult emotions, starting with accepting them.
- We then need to be curious and mindful about the emotion, asking ourselves if this emotion is owning us or we are in command.
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