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Take Radical Ownership Of Your Emotions | Dr. Susan David EP 237

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The Power of Emotion Granularity

When you label something just as stress, your body and your psychology doesn't actually know what to do with it because it feels immobilising. So one of the most profound ways we can do this is developing skills of emotion granularity. Instead of having this broad brush stroke, I feel stressed, starting to ask yourself, what are two other options? Like, I'm calling this thing stressed, but what else is it? And when we start saying, oh, it's not stress, actually it's unsupported, that already literally enamises this thing. It starts to activate our understanding of the cause of the emotion,. What we need to do in response to the emotion. The readiness potential

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