How to Deal With Negative Interactions

You can intervene way early in order to try to prevent or at least mitigate the outcome. For example, practicing four square breathing in order to trigger your relaxation response and deactivate your stress response. Taking a minute and going through the loving kindness meditation. Increase things that help you feel physically safe. I've talked about this before and I'll say it again. Today has a lot of really good ideas with the use of mirrors. We are naturally more stressed in environments in which people can sneak up on us.