The Relevance of Emotion Regulation

Learning to Manage Your Emotions in Healthy Way and Bring More Balance to Your Life

De: Jim Colajuta

Narrado por: Chloe Jacobson

Duración: 53 m

Resumen del Editor

Daily, we all experience emotions, both happy and negative. Most of us learn how to control, express, and cope with our emotions healthy as youngsters. Emotion regulation is more challenging for some people, sometimes due to terrible childhood events like abuse or trauma, sometimes as a result of a biological vulnerability to emotional sensitivity, and sometimes as a result of not being shown or taught how to manage toughness emotions.

We can learn to modify what feeling we experience, how intense it is when we have it, and how we react to it since emotions are not absolute and everlasting. Emotion regulation promotes psychological well-being and aids in the management of bad life events and stress.

There are various advantages to having better emotion regulation strategies to handle your emotions. Individuals who exercise emotional regulation are more robust and manage better with life's stresses. They have more effective coping mechanisms and are more tolerant of stress.

Emotion regulation is a protective factor against anxiety and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, children who can control their emotions have greater flexibility in their thinking and higher focus, impulse control, and problem-solving abilities. These advantages have a cascading effect, resulting in more self-assurance, emotional well-being, and general satisfaction.

©2021 Jim Colajuta (P)2021 Jim Colajuta