The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions by Chris Irons

Author:Chris Irons
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Take some time to think about each of these. Make some notes on a piece of paper if it helps (some people find it helpful to keep a diary or notebook to record their reflections on these types of exercises). Sometimes people find it useful to return to these questions at the start of each week or month, looking forward and setting a wise, compassionate intention for the time to come.

Key reflections

Step 1 of the emotion regulation model focuses on awareness of emotion triggers, and in this chapter we have developed insights and skills about how:

• Being able to recognise how situations can affect our feelings is important in emotion regulation

• Predicting emotionally triggering situations, and wisely selecting to engage in situations that are likely to bring us into contact with emotions of the drive (excitement, joy) and soothing (calm, content) system, and minimise unneeded contact with those of the threat system (e.g. anger, anxiety), can be a useful, forward-looking emotion strategy

• Being aware of when a situation has triggered a particular emotion, and learning which types of situations typically activate difficult emotions, can help us effectively navigate our emotions

• Being able to modify an emotionally triggering situation when we are ‘in it’ can help to minimise the experience of negative emotions such as anxiety or anger, or enable us to better tolerate them without getting overwhelmed

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