The Importance of Affect Regulation

It's important to become familiar with your body and particularly the sensations in your body. All an emotion is, is a particular combination of bodily sensations. Think of affect on a scale of one to ten, where one represents completely numb and shut down and ten represents panic or rage. On this scale, five to six represents a slight feeling of relaxed excitement. When you are in the five to six place, you are not dysregulated.