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Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation e

Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

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The way to move past an emotion is to first allow yourself to fully feel it.

Only then can you let it go.

Simple to understand. But hard to do.

Much of our mind, and most of our culture, is designed to distract from feeling of emotions (h/t Alice Miller)

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Interestingly, the experiences that persist in this way are not necessarily the most superficially severe. The experiences that persist are just the ones that weren’t fully processed at the time, the experiences you didn’t have the time, space, or tools to get over contemporaneously.

Sasha Chapin • How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me

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"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"

Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"

(Via Matt Lerner)

Reminders for myself

The Bio-Emotive Framework: An Escape From the Hell of Unprocessed Emotions

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I don't write, write the rules

Don't follow you

And the strangeness, it all works

Let it swallow you

See me (It's all a hoax)

See me (Play along)

I'm funny (It's just a joke)

For real (You're not wrong)

See me (It's all a hoax)

See me (You can call it a joke)

I'm funny (Play along)

For real (It isn't wrong)

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Reminders for myself

Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:

Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,

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