Hey, welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra.

Happy Monday, if you're listening on a Monday.

Today we're going to talk about a technique that you can use to manage different emotions that come up so that they're less overwhelming and we have more emotional

intelligence.

First, let's settle in by tuning in to the sound of the bell.

Follow it with your attention all the way until it dissolves into silence. So do you ever find yourself overwhelmed by emotions that are coming up?

Do you ever find yourself caught in the soup of different emotions and not able to make sense of them.

Do you ever find yourself reacting to emotions in a way that you wish you didn't?

This is very common. Emotions are often the energy that drive action and also form

the foundation for how we assess how this moment is going and how we're feeling. A lot of times emotions are just is another, but the good news is it doesn't have to be that way. A lot of the training we've

been talking about in this podcast, including things like mindfulness and meditation, do help

us to learn about our emotions, to regulate our emotions, and not be so enslaved to our

emotions.

And also let me say that it teaches us how to express our emotions as well so this isn't just

about controlling regulating it's also about learning how to relate to them skillfully in

a way that makes the most sense for the moment. There's another very

simple specific technique that you can use to get more familiar with your

emotions and be able to to manage them more skillfully.

And this is simply learning to label

and name the emotions as they arise.

So for instance, you might be standing in line at the grocery store, things are going slow,

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