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Reset Your Relationship With Negative Emotions in 2022

Dec 20, 2021 3m 18s 7 insights
<p>The Happiness Lab returns on Jan 3 to help you take a fresh, new year look at the emotions that make us sad, angry or uncomfortable. We often either ignore these feelings, or wallow in them. Neither strategy will improve our happiness and wellbeing. So in 2022 join Dr Laurie Santos and guests including Brene Brown and Adam Grant to work out how to really approach feelings like grief, guilt and burnout more effectively from now on.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
Actionable Insights

1. Confront and Name Emotions

When experiencing difficult emotions, look them directly in the eye and name them, as this process gives you power over the emotion.

2. Talk About Negative Emotions

To reduce the intensity and duration of negative emotional experiences, talk about them more, as suppressing discussion can intensify them.

3. Recognize Emotions in Self/Others

Develop the skill to recognize emotions both within yourself and in other people, which is crucial for understanding and managing your emotional landscape.

4. Heed Anger’s Signal

Pay attention to anger as an important signal from your nervous system, which is directing you to create necessary change in your life.

5. Express Grief for Shift

When dealing with loss, actively express your grief because the act of expressing these feelings causes a significant internal shift.

6. Reset Emotional Relationship

Utilize the new year, or any natural fresh start, as an opportune time to intentionally reset and improve your overall relationship with your emotions.

7. Access Emotional Reset Meditations

Subscribe to Pushkin Plus (available on Apple Podcasts or pushkin.fm/plus) to gain access to six exclusive meditations based on the discussed ideas for emotional reset.