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Emotional Agility and How Resilience Works

Name: Emotional Agility and How Resilience Works
Uploaded: 2022-09-19T02:01:05+00:00
Duration: 2 min 42 s
Channel: Antonio Matta
Description: In this presentation, the speaker explains that cultural norms often encourage us to push away intense emotions, which actually harms resilience…

19 Sept 2022 · 3 min

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In this presentation, the speaker explains that cultural norms often encourage us to push away intense emotions, which actually harms resilience, well‑being, and happiness. Emotional agility is defined as the capacity to experience thoughts and feelings with self‑acceptance, openness, and mindfulness, allowing us to act in line with our values despite negative emotions. Research shows that training in emotional agility can lower stress. The speaker outlines why acceptance of unpleasant emotions is healthier than suppression, and emphasizes that emotions are fleeting experiences. Key practices for cultivating emotional agility and resilience include meditation, gratitude, self‑knowledge, self‑compassion, and self‑regulation. A practical four‑step process is presented: (1) allow yourself to feel the emotion, (2) dare to show it, (3) label it deliberately, and (4) watch it gracefully fade. By following these steps, individuals can develop emotional intelligence, understand the roots of their feelings, and maintain wellness.

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Understanding Emotional Agility and How Resilience Works. Our culture tells us to push away intense emotions. Refusing to feel sad, angry, or otherwise forbidding emotions can undermine your resilience, well-being, and happiness. The ability to handle adversity requires cultivating a sense of ease and mastery with negative feelings. Research has shown that training one's emotional agility can reduce stress levels. Getting too emotional makes us overthink and creates a situation that seems worse than it is. It's better to experience unpleasant emotions from a place of acceptance than deny or suppress them. We should use language that reminds us that emotions are fleeting experiences. Emotional agility is the ability to navigate life with self-acceptance, foresight, and openness. Instead of chasing happiness or denying the fragility of life, emotional agility encourages us to accept the positive and negative emotions we will experience throughout the years. We should change how we perceive emotions, learn to feel them, and understand why they work. Emotional agility is the ability to experience our thoughts and feelings in a way that encourages us to reveal the best of ourselves and to approach inner experiences in a mindful, value-driven, and productive manner. Meditation or evoking feelings of gratitude may also prove beneficial. Recognizing times when you are overly reliant on your emotions is the first step toward becoming more emotionally agile. This introspective step will aid in developing emotional intelligence and identifying the root causes of our feelings. Emotional agility and resilience focus on self-knowledge, self-compassion, and self-regulation. It's important to develop emotional intelligence and resilience to maintain our wellness. To experience negative emotions with agile resiliency and be ready to move on, you must first First, allow yourself to feel them. Then, dare to show them. Follow up with a willfulness to label them. And finally, graciously watch them disappear.