2 Emotional Regulation Skills To Calm the Limbic Brain

Reach out if you need help in developing these skills to heal.

Here is a research article detailing these two strategies

[neftalitran]

1. Affect labeling (I am feeling…)
2. Reframing/reappraisal. (This other person has …or this is not that big of deal.)

Want to live in calm state.

Thank you thank you thank you. Since a young adult my dad would get ahold of your emotions but no strategy on how to do this. I thought it meant mask it. It is easier to tell myself “get out of the amygdala and into the prefrontal cortex”. Ugh.

[ledacedar]

Yes, EFT applied as soon as I’m aware. Breathing, grounding physical present moment-frontal brain engaged these tools are great.

[cheryl]

❤This is super helpful for me, Jim! When I get anxious, angry, etc., my pain escalates exponentially

[sarahbarak]

Thank you for this. I am cool with accepting my emotions, but sometimes re-framing them feels like invalidation or toxic positivity to me. And I agree, revisiting them over and over is not healthy either. I welcome your comments on this.

[MorComm]

Reframing seems especially important with threatening emotions; reappraising them and putting them in perspective, hence directly diminishing the hold they have on you.Not investing an adversary with all kinds of power over you, but simply recognizing he's got his problems too!

[HeyJudeHi]

More good, sound advice, thanks, Jim.

[edwinaastley]

Yes I think the piece about affect labelling then acknowledging and FEELING it then reframing is the answer

[zbzb-icsr]

Hey jim, i discovered your channel about a year a ago and they have helped me a lot.

Although I've gotten rid of most of my pain symptoms, i still can't get rid of my anxiety when it comes to the breath. I probably developed it first by doing breathing exercises the wrong way then when i realized I've been doing it wrong all along i developed some anxiety relating to my breath.

There are a lot of times when i remember my breathing then i try to consciously alter my breath, if that doesn't work i try the buddhist style 'noticing the breath' meditation, but then i end having trouble getting back to not noticing the breath. (I have trouble getting the breath back to autopilot)

I think the main reason I'm having trouble with this is because sometimes i feel like no oxygen is entering my lungs when i try to return my breath to autopilot, so i end up breathing again which ironically causes even more anxiety.

[annettekurlemann]

I think this is great knowledge especially for things that are stressing us that we cannot change. Things triggering us all the time

[joaniemiller]

From a Goodess perspective Yeah this is a big one that has worked for me, I just seem to slip back into crap thinking. Feeling guilty for standing up for myself . Its like I have to forge a new subconscious

[YogaMitLeslie]

Thank you for all the videos you do for us 🙏🏻.
Is it possible you can do that refraining exercise as a guided exercise?

[DiogoSantos-ixsl]

Thank you, can this help improve your baseline?

I have high levels of fear and anxiety as a result of iatrogenic injury and trauma.

[miller]

Getting into a perspective state or imagining two years from now would it matter

[KaiValle-ht]

New research states that the emotion is always Fear.

[dimazzy]

Thank you. That’s clearly explained, doable and really helpful.

[zs]

Hi Jim! Have you ever had any luck fixing people with acid reflux or gerd symptoms? I’m having some of these upper abdominal issues right now. I’m trying your techniques and getting some relief.

[STBUCKLEY]

Agoraphobic. When I go into a shop, anxiety panic starts. I then feel emotional, angry it happens, embarrassed. Then sit in my car and the tears start, and sadness. Real mix

[wardawarda]

Could you please to advice how to calm tinnitus

[eugeneano]

Similar to more elaborate work by Jeffrey Schwartz "You are not your brain"

[elizabethtara]

Hurts after exercise I've tried all of it