6: Manufacturing more useful feelings

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Replace unhelpful emotions with different, incompatible, more useful ones.

Key takeaways:

Labeling your experience (as "angry" or "sad", for example) may be useful, but may not be necessary.

Identify the not-so-useful actions you do in your body, and what you could do instead that is different, incompatible, and more useful.

Manufacture different feelings: Instead of getting caught up in analysis or stories, focus on changing your musculoskeletal mechanics.

Be your own scientist: Experiment, find what works for you, and leave the rest.

Practice suggestion:

Whenever you experience a contracted feeling - for example, anger:

Acknowledge: I am doing anger.

Then investigate: How am I doing anger? How is my posture, breathing, attention, and movement?

Replace at least one not-so-useful action you are doing in your body with a different, incompatible action that is more useful.

Part 1 - Managing stress and emotions

1: Start with your body - manufacturing a more useful foundation

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