Emotion Regulation Skills - VIDEO 6 - QUIZ

Regulating Emotions through Physical Sensations

• Our emotions are experienced through physical sensations in our bodies.
• Calming the physical manifestations of our emotions can help regulate them.
• Physiological arousal can be calmed by slowing down breathing or doing a slow, mindful walk.
• Lethargy or lack of energy that often accompanies sadness or depression can be lifted by doing something more active.
• Localized physical sensations like tightness in throats or chests or butterflies in stomachs can be distressing.
• Accepting these sensations can make them more tolerable and manageable.
• Fighting with internal experiences like emotions and body sensations only makes them stronger.
• Negative reactions to physical sensations can exacerbate them.
• Emotions and corresponding body sensations come in waves and can be noticed through their ebbs and flows.
• Breathing into uncomfortable sensations and allowing them to be can lessen their intensity.
• Responding to chronic physical pain with mindfulness and acceptance can reduce subjective pain intensity ratings by an average of forty percent.
• Accepting uncomfortable physical sensations can lead to a corresponding reduction in the intensity of emotions associated with them.