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ARE YOUR EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIORS
HELPING YOU OR HURTING YOU?
Write down an extremely stressful event that happened recently:
Indicate how you felt and how strongly you felt about it by putting a
check mark next to the feeling and rating its intensity Moderate or High
(M or H):
____ angry ____ guilty ____ anxious _______ depressed
Write down what you did (how did you behave?)
Was your behavior helpful? Did it help solve the problem in the
short-term?
Did your behavior help solve the problem in the long-term?
Did your extreme feelings help you to think clearly and solve the problem
or deal with the upsetting event?
In order for you to think clearly and thus effectively handle stressful
situations and solve practical problems, you first have to develop
emotional control. Emotional self-management is a vital key to stress
management.
The first step in emotional self-management is to become more aware of
your habitual emotional stress reactions and to understand clearly that
they are not helping you get what you want. Once you are motivated to
change your emotional and behavioral reactions to situations, you are then
ready to modify your thinking.
REBT is a proven system designed to increase emotional self-management in
order to empower you to change those things you can change and to accept
(though not like) those things you cannot change.
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