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Toxic Positivity

Gay Men Going Deeper

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What Tips or Practices Can Someone Try if They've Just Learned to Engage With Their Negative Emotions?

Matt, what tips or practices can someone try if they've just learned to engage with their negative emotions? We don't pick and choose which emotions we experience that we either turn them off or we turn them on. If you are an over regulator, that's the first step. And then if you are an under regulator, you can bypass that step because your emotions are already activated. Now your emotion is activated. So really getting clear about what's going on in your body,. labeling sensations, if you can label the feeling. Then you want to move towards like intensity reduction strategies. Three by six breathing could look like many different things. Grounding techniques workreally great for intensity reduction as well

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