Navigate Your Brain's Trauma Response with These Steps
Instructions
- ** Identify your negative emotions.**
Take a moment to reflect on the emotions that weigh you down or cause you distress. These could be feelings like anger, fear, anxiety, or frustration. - Give your emotion a persona.
Pick a person, character, or entity that represents this emotion for you. This could be someone you personally dislike, like an old boss or an ex. Or, it could be a public figure you find frustrating, like a politician or celebrity. By naming it after someone, you give the emotion an identity separate from yourself. - Build a character around that persona.
Add details to this persona to make it feel more real but also a bit ridiculous, so it’s easier to laugh at. What do they look like? How do they talk? Imagine them with exaggerated traits, like an annoying voice or a goofy appearance. - Interact with this persona.
Now that your emotion has taken on a character, you can engage with it. Treat it like a person in a real-world situation who’s bothering you. You can talk back, negotiate, or even imagine yourself locking them away in a box. - Make it manageable and humorous.
As you interact with this persona, imagine it becoming smaller or more absurd. This helps reduce its power over you. - Take back control.
Whenever this persona shows up in your mind, remember that you’re the one in control now. Since you've transformed the emotion into a character, you can decide how to deal with it. You can choose to ignore it, fight back, or keep it under control with humor and confidence.
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