Emotion Regulation – By Laura L.C. Johnson



girl_whiskers_drawnFrom her article: Emotion Regulation: The 25th Character Strength

Mindfulness can help end emotional suffering. Mindfulness applied to emotions means “the nonjudgmental observation and description of one’s current emotional responses” (Linehan, 1993). Some other ways to be mindful of your emotions are to:

* Observe your emotion. Note its presence. Step back. Get unstuck from the emotion.

* Experience your emotion as a wave, coming and going. Try not to block emotion.

Try not to suppress emotion. Don’t try to get rid of emotion. Don’t push it away.

Don’t try to keep emotion around. Don’t hold onto it. Don’t amplify it.

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07.31.09   By Douglas Eby
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  • http://www.roseannaleaton.com Roseanna Leaton

    Nice article.
    As soon as you try to push an emotion away you in actual fact will achieve the opposite result; by paying atention to it you draw it towards you and amplify it. It is important to learn to take a step back and relax and in effect distract yourself. Hypnosis can be very useful in learning how to change state and view things from a different angle.
    Roseanna

  • john

    nice work. I want to share another post regarding emotion con wtih the readers..

    http://jamesrick.com/blog/category/emotional/

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