Emotion

Regulation Skills
skill
 Body

Human being? Psych

Soul
 •Emotion
Psych •Behaviour
•Thinking
 ‫?‪What is emotions‬‬

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‫قوية‬ ‫حشويه‬
‫طارئة‬
EXERCISE 1
 emotions
• Are messengers that carry information = signals from your body telling you what is
happening

Pleasurable >>>> feel good

Distressing >>>> bad
Basic
emotions
Why Emotions
Protection:
Motivation:

Validation:
Communication: NVC
 How do emotions work?

Limbic system is
Electrical and chemical Travel to your brain
connected to your
signals begin from and processed in
body to tell what to do
your senses (…,….) Limbic system
how to respond.
Primary & secondary emotions

• Primary >> initial reactions to what is happening

• Secondary>> feelings about your initial feelings
Regulation why important?

• To quiet the body

• To quiet behaviour: you can not control your emotion but your reaction to them
• To be more effective in meeting goals
• To improve self-respect
 Identify your emotions

• Yelled at your child after your partner made you feel wrong… !!
• Your card being rejected at supermarket..!
• You crash into somebody back on your way work.. No one injured but cars
damaged..!

Name this type

 Cognitive Tringle

Thoughts Behaviours

Feelings
Skills of emotion regulation

• Recognizing your emotions

• Overcome Barriers to healthy emotions
• Reduce physical vulnerability
• Reduce your cognitive vulnerability
• Increase your positive emotions
• Be mindful of your emotions
• Emotion exposure
• Doing the opposite of emotion urge
• Problem solving
Skills of emotion regulation

• Recognizing your emotions

• Overcome Barriers to healthy emotions
• Reduce physical vulnerability
• Reduce your cognitive vulnerability
• Increase your positive emotions
• Be mindful of your emotions
• Emotion exposure
• Doing the opposite of emotion urge
• Problem solving
 Ways to recognize your emotions?

• It is the first step in controlling your high intensity emotional reaction.

• The tidal wave of emotions hits before we have had a chance to see it
• It is necessary to slow down the emotional process so that it can be examined.
Use the work sheet

• Think about incident that caused you upset

and wave of overwhelming emotions:
‫تمرين ‪1‬‬
Body changes to emotions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_FMxPo4xDM
Emotions & Moood
Mind setss

Emotional Wise Reasonable