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Rediscovering Resilience in Turbulent Times: Session Three – Feelings and Empathy

NAOMI L. BAUM, PH.D. RESILIENCE ASSOCIATES OU PROJECT RESILIENCE AUGUST, 2020 ELUL, 5770

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What is my level of stress?

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What is my level of stress? Homework Check- in: How are we doing? Mind and Body (and Soul)

 Are we paying attention to our physical selves?  Are we paying attention to our emotional selves?  And more specifically:  Am I breathing regularly?  Am I practicing gratitude?  What else am I doing to help me cope?

When I think of Covid-19 what feelings come up for me?

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 Uncertainty – Anxiety  Fear  Lack of Control  Quarantine  Loneliness  Lack of purpose – Lack of activity  Boredom  Frustration

How Does Corona Affect Us? Characteristics of Resilience

 Bouncing back-bouncing forward?  Elasticity-flexibility  Positive adaptation  Long term  Stamina  Strength  “Ordinary Magic” (A. Masten)

The Building Resilience Intervention (BRI)– 4 Foundations Self Strengths and

Coping

Empathy and

Emotions

Significance and

Meaning Empathy and Emotions Psychology of Happiness

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What is happiness? Do we need a definition??

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Sonja Lyubomirski (2007) “…the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”

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Two parts:

 Fleeting feelings  Meaningful contentment 

Benefits:

 Good for our health  Good for our relationships  Deal better with the stresses of

daily life

 More productive  More generous

Bibliography: Sonja Lyubomirski Matthieu Ricard

What determines happiness?

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Happiness Exercise

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Free Associations to the word “Happy”- What does the word happy mean to you?

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Happiness – Continued:

• 1. When you are happy,

where do you feel it in your body?

• 2. How do you know you are

happy?

What are the things that make you happy??

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Exploring Difficult Emotions

 1. Pick an emotion that is more difficult- something that you have

been feeling during COVID-19: sadness, fear, worry, frustration, loneliness, boredom.

 2. Write it at the top of your page. Freely associate to that word.

Write down whatever comes up for you.

 3. Go back to your body- where do you feel the emotion in your

body? How does it look/feel? temperature? texture?

 4. What do you do when you are feeling this way?  5. Can people tell how you are feeling? how?  6. What kinds of things/situations bring on this feeling?  7. What helps you when you feel this way?

So how should I express my emotions? And where?

 Some ideas:  Journaling (lots of studies show that this way works well)  Drawing/Painting  Playing Music or Singing  Sharing with a partner or friend  Or any other avenue that suits you to express yourself

Guided Imagery: Safe Place

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Let’s take another moment to check in and breathe: Minute of Mindfulness

And just to review:

1.

Resilient people experience ALL emotions.

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If we shut down one emotion, it impacts on the way we experience all emotions

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Allow the more difficult emotions to surface.

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Find a way that suits you to express your emotions.

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