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What Is Emotion Regulation?
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We cannot control what happens in life, but we can try to regulate our emotions and reactions.
Managing life's ups and downs doesn't have to be so hard.
Down-regulating and up-regulating our moods is much like shifting the gears of a manual car.
The best way to manage our feelings is to face them head-on and work through them. This, of course, does not mean that we should take them out on other people.
A person who is not grounded may not have a good handle on regulating mood and may have a hard time lessening the severity of what they feel. To counter this, they can try down-regulation, something that therapists use in the therapeutic setting. For example, feeling angry about getting rear-ended doesn’t mean we should have an intense shouting match with the offender. Down-regulating can be like shifting the gears of a........