The SIFT technique for Emotion Processing: Dr. Daniel Siegel The Whole Brain Child

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🗓️ 27 February 2021

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Emotion processing is when you work through emotions, and in this technique for anxiety and other strong emotions, we cover the SIFT technique. the SIFT technique was developed by Dr. Dan Siegal and is a helpful technique for coping with anxiety and stress and other sensations and emotions. Thanks BetterHelp for sponsoring the video: BetterHelp- Professional, Affordable Online Counseling starting at around $65 a week https://www.betterhelp.com/therapyina... Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=02262021 Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanut... Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapynutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/bes... Therapy in a Nutshell, and the information provided by Emma McAdam, is solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. If you are in crisis please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC ---- Music licensed from www.Bensound.com or Artlist.io Images from Freepik.com (premium license), Pixabay, or Wikimedia commons

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to therapy in a nutshell. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family
0:06.7	therapist, and this is the podcast where I condense mental health skills into bite-sized
0:12.4	nuggets of health. Hi everyone, Emma McAdam here. Today I want to share with you a quick
0:20.4	technique for emotion processing.
0:22.6	Now emotion processing is the skill of noticing, naming, and slowing down what you're feeling
0:30.6	so that you can make good choices about it and move forward with more calm and happiness in your life. So in this video, I'm going to teach you the sift technique.
0:40.3	So the sift technique is a skill that's been developed by Dan Siegel,
0:53.3	and he's a pretty well-known author
0:55.2	in the field of mental health and parenting and this technique can be used to help you gain
1:00.2	more awareness around what you're feeling help you slow things down and notice what's going
1:06.3	on for you so the s technique is an acronym S stands for noticing what sensations you're having.
1:14.2	So this is all about describing what's going on inside of your body. So if you're feeling upset or
1:20.3	if you're not feeling upset, whatever it is you're feeling, you just take a minute and notice
1:24.5	what's going on inside of your body. And you're just supposed to describe
1:29.7	what sensations you're having, what physical sensations you're having inside of your body. So that
1:35.4	might be things like noticing a feeling of tension in your shoulders, or noticing that you
1:41.5	have a headache, or noticing that your legs feel relaxed, or noticing that your
1:46.5	stomach feels upset. So the S stands for sensation, and you just notice what physical sensations
1:53.5	you're having right now. The eye stands for images. So this is what kind of images or what kind
2:00.7	of impressions are going on in your mind right now.
2:03.0	This might be pictures, it might be impressions of like a scent or or a place or, you know, some kind of
2:11.5	visual something going on inside your mind. So an image of what? Some people kind of visualize themselves.
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