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How to Be Emotionally Stronger #shorts

Name: How to Be Emotionally Stronger #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-11-19T20:00:01+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short self‑help video, the speaker outlines three concrete practices for building emotional resilience. First, they advise against repressing…

19 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In this short self‑help video, the speaker outlines three concrete practices for building emotional resilience. First, they advise against repressing feelings and instead regulating them by acknowledging the emotion, allowing it, and extracting lessons from it. Second, they suggest adopting a future‑self perspective: imagine yourself five years ahead discussing the current stressful moment, which provides perspective that the present feeling is temporary and does not define you. Third, they recommend being quick to forgive, likening holding grudges to skipping the gym, which makes one emotionally fragile. The speaker concludes with an encouragement to try these steps and follow them for more content.

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How to be emotionally stronger. Number 1: Don't repress your emotions, regulate them. That means instead of thinking to yourself, I shouldn't feel this way, I'm so dumb for feeling this way, you will instead regulate those emotions by taking the mindset of I acknowledge that I'm feeling something very strongly right now and I'm going to allow myself to feel it, but what can I learn from it? Number 2: Talk to yourself from the future. One technique that I use is I imagine myself 5 years from now talking to somebody about the stressful or anxious moment that I'm currently in, and I tell them how it was but I overcame it. It helps me have perspective that the moment I'm in isn't going to last forever. In other words, the moment that I find myself in doesn't define me. It's the moment I create that shapes who I am. Number 3: Be fast to forgive. When you don't, when you hold grudges, it's kind of like skipping the gym. You'll become fragile, and eventually it's unhealthy. And that's how to be emotionally stronger. So try that and follow me.