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!

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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

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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