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How to Regulate Emotional Experiences
An emotional experience that exceeds the window of tolerance is a phrase that Dan Segal invented in talking about emotional experience. If you have an emotional reaction to the present moment which falls within your tolerance for that kind of emotional experience, then you don't have to regulate it. So another way you might think about this is using only positive strategies for regulating emotional experiences that exceed your capacity just to be with an emotional experience.