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How to Enhance Your Emotional Regulation Skills
Enhance Your Emotional Regulation Skills
I’ve been writing about the 8 skills involved in understanding resilience, inner strength, and mental toughness. Our emotions play a bigger part in this than you may have imagined, so it makes sense to enhance your emotional regulation skills to be the best “you” that you can be.
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Let’s explore Skill #2 — Enhance Your Emotional Regulation Skills So You Are in Control
You have the freedom to choose your reactions. Your emotions and thoughts are not facts that you need to act on. You can reframe any situation in order to see it from a positive perspective. Look at the situation in a new way and avoid mind-reading or attempts at predicting the future.
Practice mindfulness skills by doing something that directs your attention to the present moment.
Increase positive experiences by doing things you enjoy and making happy memories.
There isn’t very much that we have direct control over in our lives. For example, we cannot control other people, the weather, and traffic. Though it may seem difficult, we can control our reactions to the many things we…
