More precise words for emotions help you regulate them. When you feel shame, is it a feeling of embarrassment, distress, or anguish? The right words can contain emotions.

Contain emotions

More precise words for emotions help you to regulate them. When you feel shame, is it a feeling of embarrassment, distress, or anguish? The right words can contain emotions.

When anxious about something happening, ask yourself, “If that happens, then what?” Keep asking until you find an aspect you can control and act on.

Closer to a solution

When you are feeling anxious that something will happen, ask yourself, if that happened, then what? Continue to ask that question until you get to something you can't control. Find one thing on the train of fears and think of one simple action step that brings you closer to a solution.

Overcome your fear of rejection by intentionally seeking it out. Exposure to rejection helps reduce the anxiety surrounding it.

Exposure therapy

If you are afraid of rejections, getting more rejections can help you get over that fear. Exposure therapy means that if you do something you're afraid of over and over again, you diminish your fear of it.

Use precise language to describe your feelings. Recognizing emotions like “ambivalence” helps you understand complex experiences better.

Ambivalent

Use the word ambivalent when you feel two opposing emotions at the same time. Our life experiences are complex and complicated, and having words to describe conflicting emotions increases your emotional intelligence.

Contain emotions

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