Name It to Tame It Mastering Emotions 1

By naming it to tame it you create distance between yourself and the feeling You become the witness of it instead of reacting from it making it a lot easier to understand and manage Tip number 2 is about naming the emotion In fact we call it name it to tame it Well for the majority of us that struggle with controlling our emotions the reason is is because I know with myself when I was young I was not allowed to have emotions or I was only expected to have the emotions that I was told I was supposed to feel And so I had no relationship with my emotions right And so what's the first thing we usually learn about someone in order to have a relationship with them is their name And so in this case learning to identify what is happening in our body the sensations that we're feeling is very helpful in grounding us