Making more space for our emotions can help us avoid self-sabotaging behavior. Here are some ideas to get started, from DrAliceBoyes
When I trained in clinical psychology, it was standard to talk about emotions likeYou felt anxious about social rejection when you weren't being rejected.Increasingly, I don't think of emotions as false alarms anymore. I think of them as good information about what matters to me and increases my safety. Yes, maybe a reaction to rejection was"false" in the sense I wasn't actually being rejected at that moment.
Distress doesn't keep escalating to the point we spontaneously combust. Label your distress as distress and allow yourself to feel it. Then, identify the underlying emotions you're having, without ruminating on why you're having those emotions, or why you've gotten yourself into a position of feeling distress.
See what happens when you're more open to your emotions. For me, I notice it helps me create more space between emotions and self-sabotaging or other reflexive behavior. That pause then allows me to choose my actions more wisely, so they're more closely aligned to my values. Does it help you in the same way, or does something else happen?
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