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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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Forced positivity
Suppressing or avoiding our difficult emotions is not healthy or helpful.
Doing this impairs our capacity to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. And this leads to lower levels of resilience, lower levels of wellbeing, and higher levels of depression and...
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Emotions and compassion
Identify your emotions with compassion.
Compassion allows you to foster a safe space inside of you, a space in which you feel capable of taking more risks: you’re ready to analyze and explore the world and you know that if things don’t go right, everything is still ok.
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You are not your emotions
Create space between you and what you’re feeling and act as an observer by naming all the aspects of your experience.
Don't identify with your emotions. Doing this puts you in charge rather than the emotion.
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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 ...
Emotions lead to feelings
Being aware of the constant dance between emotions and feelings could improve your decision-making ability.
- Every feeling begins with a stimulus.
- The stimulus leads to an unfelt emotion in the brain.
- Unfelt emotions cause the body to generate respon...
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.
- We need to be courageous with ou...
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