Regulating Emotions

Question 1

Why do we need to regulate emotions

Answer 1

• Deeply held beliefs or emotions to come up and create resistance or misunderstandings.
• Techniques that guide us when we feel stuck or triggered,

Question 2

Quicksand (Observation tool)

Answer 2

The more you resist the deeper you go - at the root of your resistance you will find your deeper truth = looking for the presence of fear or pain at the root of resistance
- Just like there is an opportunity for growth that comes with challenge and opposition there is also an opportunity for deep revelation that presents itself with resistance
⁃ (Methodology) Looking for how resistance shows. Exploring what it would mean if it were true.
- unpacking why that truth is a problem for you (or has saved you from a problem) in the end what you choose to believe becomes your reality.
⁃ Does what you believe limit or empower you

Question 3

Beach ball

Answer 3

The more intensity you use to push it away the stronger it comes back to you. The more you fight with the parts of life that you don’t get along with. The stronger that reality shows up in your life as feedback - consider where you fight the most on this journey.

• look to see where it shows up in other areas of your life for the opportunity to discover one of your core patterns that need to be collapsed

Question 4

Helicopter

Answer 4

Gain an objective perspective, a larger point of view, detachment
-imagine yourself sitting in a circle - like a situation
⁃ now imagine yourself going straight up in a helicopter now look down at the circle. It looks different from this perspective.
⁃ What does it give you access to. What do you see now that you could not see before when you were so close up on it

Question 5

Mountain

Answer 5

unwavering no matter the climate
⁃ Connect to your core values and vision.
⁃ Find strength in your inner knowing.
⁃ Walk unapologetically in your truth.

Question 6

The train

Answer 6

a way to detach from negative thoughts or feelings

⁃ see each boxcar as a negative thought or feeling. Stand before the train detached as you watch each car go by

Question 7

Ballons

Answer 7

a way to release negative thoughts or feelings
⁃ each having a limiting disempowering thought - release it
⁃ Both of these put your mind into safe mode and help to relieve your body of the somatic experience of anxiety.