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fromPsychology Today
1 week agoDistress Tolerance Techniques to Manage Your Emotions
If you feel like there are times when your emotions quickly escalate and spin out of control, it may also feel like there's nothing you can do about it. Perhaps others have told you that you are "overreacting" to situations that typically do not evoke such intense feelings. But being told by others to "calm down" feels dismissive to you, and it invalidates your strong emotions.
Mental health
Parenting
fromIndependent
1 week agoUnderstanding children's emotions: 'Tantrums aren't a sign of being spoilt or bold - they're a normal part of brain growth'
Tantrums reflect normal brain development; parents can help children regulate big feelings through calm validation, structured routines, clear limits, and developmentally appropriate guidance.
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow our expectations shape what we see, hear, and feel
It can certainly feel like emotions happen to you. That they bubble up and cause you to do and say things, but that experience is an illusion that the brain creates. Not everybody has as much control as they might like, but everybody has a little more control than they think they do. When you're experiencing emotion or you're in an emotional state, what your brain is doing is telling itself a story about what is going on inside your body.
Science
fromBig Think
2 months agoSam Harris: Experience emotions without being consumed by them
I mean, the amazing thing about our circumstances that each one of us is in a position that is in some sense, as free and as profound and as in touch with reality, as any other position in this universe, where you stand, the universe is illuminated as you, as your experience in this moment. And that we call this substratum of experience, consciousness, for lack of a better word.
Mindfulness
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