What is Emotion Processing?
Emotion Processing is a system you can go through to regulate and resolve your emotions. In this video you’re going to learn what emotion processing is, what gets in the way of it, and how you can start to learn to work through your emotions so they don’t build up in a harmful way in your life.
Most people just don’t have the skills they need to process emotions
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When I talk about processing emotions, I mean we literally need to go through a process to regulate and resolve our emotions.
The Processing Plant
Many people have a backlog of unprocessed emotions
What gets in the way of Emotional Regulation:
- Foreclosure: trying to jump to solutions but skipping the process. Trying to get from A to D without going through B and C. This is trying to feel good before acknowledging what you are feeling now. You can still get to feeling good, you just have to go through a couple of steps. And this is closely tied to
- Avoidance: Trying to just make emotions go away
- Lack of Clarity: not even being sure what the emotion or problem is
- Instant Gratification: Choosing things that feel good in the moment (like eating that quart of ice cream) over lasting Joy (facing and resolving a tough problem)
This course responds to these challenges with 3 main principles:
Principle #1- Emotional Regulation is a process.
- Identify: check them in (notice them) Identify the emotion
- Pause take an inventory (give them a name) Explore the emotion without needing to immediately make it go away Stay calm in mind and Body
- Explore: see what they can be used for (look for their function/purpose) break them down into smaller packages (1 thing at a time) and then
- Choose: decide where to send them (take action or practice acceptance). Make a choice about whether to Act or Accept
- Take Action
Principle #2- Emotional Regulation is a skill that can be learned
Emotional Regulation is a skill that can be learned and developed through practice, just like a physical skill. People sometimes think that it’s a trait that you either have or you don’t. But our emotional skills are like physical skills, if you want to be a good tennis player- you need to learn how to hit the ball and how to move and how to stand, and then you need to build up your tennis muscles. But when it comes to emotional skills and muscles, most people were never taught how to strengthen them. This course is designed to provide easy access to practical skills to build emotional strength and mental resilience by processing, accepting, and resolving emotions.
Principle #3: Emotions are deeper than thoughts and behaviors
So Welcome to the course : How to Process your Emotions- 30 + Essential Mental Health Skills.
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