The One Rule That Can Cut Your Emotional Reactivity in Half
There's one practice that can genuinely transform how you respond to difficult emotions — and it has nothing to do with willpower or elaborate self-care routines. It comes down to radical honesty with yourself.
When we experience emotional reactivity — snapping, spiraling, shutting down — we tend to blame the emotion. But emotions are just the match. What pours gasoline on the fire is a thinking pattern called black and white thinking: taking a real situation and pushing it to its most extreme, absolute version.
The giveaway words? Always. Never. Terrible. Hopeless. Everyone. No one. As Still…
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