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Controlling Your Emotions Through Emotional Regulation (rewind)
Season 2 · Episode 117

Controlling Your Emotions Through Emotional Regulation (rewind)

Live Well and Flourish · Craig Van Slyke

August 12, 202416m 7s

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Show Notes

(This is a re-release of episode 31 of Live Well and Flourish.)

Being able to control your emotions to minimize unnecessary suffering, and to maximize positive feelings is important to your flourishing. In this episode, Craig discusses emotional regulation and provides some strategies for taking control of your emotions and emotional responses. There's also a goat story!

Notes

Five Families of Emotional Regulation Strategies

Strategy family           Example strategies

Situation selection       Avoidance

Situation modification    Direct request (to change the situation)

Attentional deployment Distraction

                             Rumination (directing attention towards causes & consequences)

Cognitive change         Cognitive reappraisal

                             Acceptance (of the emotion)

Response modulation    Expressive suppression (preventing outward expressions of emotion)

                             Physiological intervention (e.g. breathing deeply and slowly)

Note: Adapted from McCrae & Gross (2020) Available at: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-03346-001.html 


Article on Stoicism and Emotion Regulation

https://antidotesforchimps.com/2019/12/14/stoicism-emotion-regulation/

Live Well and Flourish website: https://www.livewellandflourish.com/ 

The theme music for Live Well and Flourish was written by Hazel Crossler, [email protected].

Production assistant - Paul Robert