Emotion Regulation: Body Language
Emotion Regulation: Body Language
Like most of us we always have situations in public or even private, where another person or situation has made us angry, upset and overwhelmed. In situations like these we often do not know how to behave or it is hard to manage our body language.
So three main tips here are related to managing these:
1) Count to ten the counting to ten by focusing on your breath, helps you to focus at this time nothing can be done. Therefore, each second you count is a deep breath.
2) Smile: The smile is your way of showing others it is all okay and that you are not bothered by what has happened or been said. Also it can be calming movement for yourself that allows you to take your attention from the negative thought by presenting a smile.
3) Open body language, so this is related to not closing your arms or showing expressions on the face, the way you tackle this is by either having something like a safety pin or elastic band. The safety pin can be seen as a transitional object. Therefore, when holding this your able to allow your emotions to be placed into the safety pin, so you are very much in control of your emotions at the time. The elastic band is something similar too, so you can pull it and use as placing your emotions into the band. As this is a doing technique this can help you to focus on the action of pulling the elastic band. Guiding you away from the person or situation.
These are just some techniques tried and tested by patients/clients and myself that have helped to regulate emotions and body language.
Remember we are all human, so it’s okay to not always get things right. Sending you all loads of positive energy from the wearehumancousnelling team.
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By Dr Farah Nadeem
Psychologist
