128 // Low Frustration Tolerance and a Meditation

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 128 of The Mindful Kind podcast about low frustration tolerance.

In this episode, you'll discover what low frustration tolerance is, how it contributes to stress and some mindful strategies for increasing your frustration tolerance, including:

Acknowledging thoughts in challenging situations without having to believe them (thoughts may include "I can't deal with this, I can't handle this, or I can't get through this")
Challenging those negative thoughts with truthful facts, such as "I've been through a similar situation before and I know I can get through this"
Taking some deep breaths or practising mindfulness to support yourself through difficult situations and feelings of frustration
Allowing yourself to feel however you need to feel without judgement
Noticing if there's anything you can be grateful for in that difficult moment

In this episode, you'll also hear a meditation called The Point of Stillness which begins at 5.40 minutes.

Thank you for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.3	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.9	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.7	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.6	mindful techniques.
0:31.7	Hello and welcome to episode 128 of the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:36.4	Thank you so much for tuning into this episode after I took
0:39.3	a little break last week. Unfortunately, after a few busy weeks, I got sick and wasn't feeling up
0:45.0	to recording a new episode and I had my hands full keeping up with our new puppy. As you may have
0:50.5	seen on my Instagram post, I also promised to do something a bit special on this
0:54.3	episode since I didn't release anything new last week.
0:57.5	So I've decided to host a meditation at the end of this one.
1:01.0	I'm almost finished studying my meditation certificate now and I'm really excited to start sharing
1:06.7	more in this area.
1:08.5	Anyway, the topic for this episode is all about low frustration tolerance,
1:12.5	how it can contribute to stress and how to use mindfulness to reduce its impact.
1:17.2	Low frustration tolerance is a concept developed by the psychologist Albert Ellis, which
1:22.4	means an inability to cope well with feelings of frustration. This is something I used to struggle a lot with
1:29.2	myself. When I was faced with challenging situations or unexpected problems that caused frustration,
1:36.0	my self-talk focused on how I couldn't manage those things, how unfair it was and I'd be
1:41.6	catastrophizing things in my mind which weren't actually all that bad.
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