Emotion Regulation Summary
Identify emotions by observing and describing:
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The event prompting the emotion
Interpretations of the event
Physical signs
Behaviors that express the emotion
The aftereffects on functioning
Function of emotions:
 To communicate to others
 To motivate one’s self
 To validate one’s own perceptions
Reducing vulnerability to emotion mind:
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Physical
Eating
Drug abuse
Sleep
Exercise
Mastery
Increasing positive events:
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Increase positive events
Accumulate positives
Attend to relationships
Avoid avoiding
Be mindful of positives
Be unmindful of worries
Taking opposite action to an emotion
Letting go of emotional suffering:
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You must experience your emotion
You are not your emotion
Don’t judge yourself and radically accept your emotion
Avoid secondary emotions to keep pain from becoming suffering
*Ckoblin/ttandt*