created: 2024/04/04

updated: 2024/08/14

epistemology: life

confidence: high, try it and see! :D

shortlink: bit.ly/corgihelp

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Silver bullets

https://curioushumans.substack.com/p/the-operating-manual-for-your-nervous

• Engineer procedures — Lower Neuroticism | Breakthrough Emotional Regulation | Engineer Procedures
• Depression/Anxiety —
  • Grounding (5 see, 4 hear, 3 feel, 2 smell, 1 taste)
  • Emotional release
  • Tony Robbins UPW 2023 Exercise (40 min)
• Overwhelm
  • art of accomplishment episode on overwhelm
    • “What’s actually happening on an emotional level is there are all these big emotions and you are not feeling them. You are not allowing them to pass all the way through you, so your system is overwhelmed with the amount of emotions you have.”
  • identify the emotions, isolate them and let each pass through you
• https://dbt.tools/emotional_regulation/stop.php — Stop (freeze completely), Take a step back, Observe, Proceed mindfully.
• https://dbt.tools/emotional_regulation/opposite-action.php — Do the opposite the emotion suggests.
• Apathy — review https://jcorg.substack.com/p/getting-more-done-faster

Inner states [tactical]

See Lower Neuroticism | Breakthrough Emotional Regulation | Engineer Procedures for strategic exercises

• Lack of motivation — meditate → circle of excellence
• Anxiety — vocally say “I’m excited!” 10 times (with arm motions!)
  • deeper: identify what you’re excited about in the situation (eg growth opportunity, new perspective, etc)
    • vocally go “I’m excited” 10 times after each reason!
  • how it works: Anxiety <> Excitement neural circuits
  • source: Art of Accomplishment (Joe Hudson) workshop “Embracing Intensity”