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WORKING WITH FEELINGS

Learn how to work with your feelings effectively - from understanding and putting them in perspective to using them as valuable data. Discover the keys to emotional resilience and how positive emotions can broaden your thought-action repertoires, helping you cope better with stress and adversity. Develop a deeper understanding of your own feelings and enhance your capacity to manage affect in everyday life.

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WORKING WITH FEELINGS

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  1. WORKING WITH FEELINGS • Understand it is normal to have emotional responses • Put feelings in perspective • Be aware of feelings • Use them as data • Don’t manage, understand them • Know your own feelings • Perceive  Name  Meaning

  2. Recent Research • Adult Resilience to Stress • Ability to bond to a group with a mission • High value placed on altruism • Capacity to tolerate high levels of fear and still perform • Adaptation to Extreme Stress, • Charney, Dennis; Am J of Psychiatry, 161:2 February 2004

  3. ASPECTS OF EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE IAfter Barbara Fredrickson Positive Emotions Broaden Thought-Action Repertoires • Unusual...creative...integrative...open to information...and efficient, • Increased preference for variety • Accept a broader array of behavioral options.... • Expand attention. • Positive emotions widen the array of thoughts and actions that come to mind. • Trigger Upward Spirals

  4. ASPECTS OF EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE II After Barbara Fredrickson • Consistent employment of good judgment in the midst of sustained and intense stress. • Negative emotions narrow focus to immediate danger • Positive emotions make more expansive • Coping that generates positive affect during stressful circumstances • Positive appraisal • Problem-focused coping • Infusion of ordinary events with positive meaning

  5. Developmental Task Of Adults • Understanding and Managing Affect • Become Conscious Of The Vicissitudes Of Everyday Affect • Not Just The Content • Of The Process By Which Affect Comes Into Experience • What It Informs The Self About The Internal And External Reality

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