Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you ever have like a wave or a physical response to something like bad news, negative

emotion when you maybe can pay yourself to someone else or you see something online that

triggers or troubles you or someone says something that just makes you go

my friends my friends this is something that I have learned over the years which is called response flexibility.

And this is our ability in the present moment when something negative happens or bothers us to center ourselves and to not react and just have this

reflexive response when it comes to experiencing negative emotion.

Now I'm going to use the example today of comparison

because I just coached a friend through this.

She saw someone who does similar work to her win something big, right?

She won this award.

And she was like, I'm furious, it's not fair,

et cetera, et cetera, we don't even need the whole backup story.

But I think we all experience those things sometimes, right? Maybe like another

mama annoys you or someone in the news or someone just in your friendship circle and you

almost have this somatic response first.

Your body can get hot, you can feel tense,

you can have like a sinking feeling.

And I want to tell you my steps

for managing that emotion in the present moment because the truth is an emotion only

lasts 90 seconds. The emotion itself is pretty isolated. A feeling comes, we can experience it, we can allow it to be in our

body, but we don't have to make it last, we don't have to make it stick around. What happens

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