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Session 6: Meeting Difficult Emotions - Coggle Diagram
Session 6: Meeting Difficult Emotions
Core Med: Loving-Kindness for Ourselves
Practice Discussion (15 min)
Session Theme:
Meeting Difficult Emotions
Topic:
Stages of Acceptance (5 min)
Topic:
Approaches to Difficult Emotions (10 min)
Informal Practice:
Being with Difficult Emotions (30 mins: 20+10)
Break (15 min)
Topic:
Shame (15 mins)
Informal Practice (optional)
: Self- Compassion Break for Shame (25 min: 15+10+5)
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Social emotion. One's vicarious experience of the other's scorn....the self-in-the-eyes-of-the-other is the focus of awareness.
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Finding emotions in the body
Emotions have mental and physical elements
Body awareness: important factor in emotion regulation
When we locate emotion in body and change our relationship to it, the emotion itself may begin to change.
Takes time to sense under modern days- don't worry.
Labeling emotions
Name it to tame it.
Create space
Amygdala became less active
How matters- tone
Soften-soothe-allow (SSA)
Soften- physical
Soothe- emotional
Allow- mental SC (warm)
SSA, SAS or ASS
NOT strategies to alleviate difficult emotions.
To meet and be with them.
Establish new relationship, keep from overwhlem.
Feeling better is side effect, not goal
Permission to close: We do not have to engage with the most difficult emotions in our lives, nor do we want to use self-compassion as a strategy to eliminate difficult emotions.
Resisting
Exploring: turn towards with curiosity
Tolerating: Safely enduring, remain in the entry hall
Allowing: let guest go wherever they wanna go in house
Befriending: seeing the value, site down and listen to what the guest has to say
How much distress to endure?
"Not much!"
"No need to stand in front of the train to be open to it
Self-compassion: Titrate the amount of sufferings allowed in our lives to keep from overwhelming.
Rumi's poem: Guest House