Hello and welcome to episode 2971 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary

Mechley and I welcome you to day three of this series we're exploring. This

week it's all about emotional regulation and we're carrying over from last

week series where you discovered how to inoculate yourself against stress. And this

is a week where you can consider this to be your training grounds. You are training

yourself to regulate your emotions and this absolutely can be done. So I'm going

to share some insight with you so that you can see just how possible it is for

you to regulate your emotions and then you're going to be guided using a breathing

technique, one of the most powerful techniques of all. I'm sharing with you an article from

Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery and this is by Abigail Roeston and

Elizabeth Lloyd Richardson. It's called what is emotional regulation and how do we do it?

The article begins by mentioning how we all experience emotions both negative and positive

emotions every single day. Not a day goes by that we're not sometimes on an emotional

roller coaster. Emotions are a normal part of everyday lives and everyone experiences

them. But for some feeling these emotions can seem overwhelming. It can feel as though

you are in an out of control roller coaster. This can lead to feelings including guilt, sadness,

feeling overwhelmed or frustrated, anger, self blame and low self worth and these feelings

of being overwhelmed emotionally can lead to a deep need to do something situation where

you want to stop the intensity and so what can happen is self injury can become a habit

because it can serve as a short-term fix to stop the overwhelming sensation of the feeling

at least temporarily. So what are some self-harm activities? These include abusing alcohol or other

substances, self injury, avoiding or withdrawing from different situations, physical or verbal

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