Acknowledge the emotions without taking action
This is otherwise known as mindfulness. Notice the sensations in your body, but don’t take action. Just feel it; that’s what heals it. This doesn’t mean thinking about what happened and getting all tangled up in the storyline, which will just mire you in the muck. We feel emotions in the body. So noticing the feeling simply means noticing the sensations in your body. When you welcome what you’re feeling but resist the urge to act on it, while holding yourself with compassion, the emotions begin to dissipate. That actually dissolves the old emotional trigger. Every time you do this, you’re rewiring your brain.
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