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I found this book engaging, with practical tips to introduce into my own life.
Tips to remember:
-When you're having trouble processing a situation with some emotional distance: try visualizing the situation in your mind's eye, then "zoom" out of your body and look at the situation from outside your body's perspective. Removing yourself from the event's first person perspective should offer the opportunity to reflect more objectively. It should quiet the chatter in your head and encourage productive thinking.
-Another distancing technique to calm yourself down or problem solve: refer to yourself in the second or third person, or with your own name. That can often allow you to realize that you're overreacting to a problem.
-If you can't stop thinking about a current issue, pause to reflect on where you'll be in a week, month, year, or decade from now. Is this current problem still going to affect you then? Hopefully this will provide perspective by reminding you that this current crisis isn't permanent.
-The best way you can help a friend is to offer tangible ways to resolve their issues. Listening/commiserating with their emotions is only helpful to a point.
Tips to remember:
-When you're having trouble processing a situation with some emotional distance: try visualizing the situation in your mind's eye, then "zoom" out of your body and look at the situation from outside your body's perspective. Removing yourself from the event's first person perspective should offer the opportunity to reflect more objectively. It should quiet the chatter in your head and encourage productive thinking.
-Another distancing technique to calm yourself down or problem solve: refer to yourself in the second or third person, or with your own name. That can often allow you to realize that you're overreacting to a problem.
-If you can't stop thinking about a current issue, pause to reflect on where you'll be in a week, month, year, or decade from now. Is this current problem still going to affect you then? Hopefully this will provide perspective by reminding you that this current crisis isn't permanent.
-The best way you can help a friend is to offer tangible ways to resolve their issues. Listening/commiserating with their emotions is only helpful to a point.