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There are three major reasons why we experience emotions. Emotions help to motivate us for action: Emotions help to organize our behaviour and set us in motion to accomplish a goal.
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Emotions can be signals or alarms that something is happening. •• Gut feelings can be like intuition—a response to something important about the situation. This can be helpful if our emotions get us to check out the facts.
• Emotions save time in getting us to act in important situations. Emotions can be especially important when we don’t have time to think things through. • Strong emotions help us overcome obstacles—in our minds and in the environment. EMOTIONS COMMUNICATE TO (AND INFLUENCE) OTHERS • Facial expressions are hard-wired aspects of emotions.
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Extreme emotions get you a lot further than trying to regulate your emotions. Challenge: Creativity requires intense, often out-of- control emotions. Challenge: Drama is cool. Challenge: It is inauthentic to try to change my emotions. Challenge: Emotional truth is what counts, not factual truth.
Judgmental myths about emotions (e.g., “Some emotions are stupid,” “There is a right way to feel in every situation”)? Beliefs that emotions and identity are the same (e.g., “My emotions are who I am”)? •• IF YES: 1. Check the facts. 2. Challenge myths. 3. Practice thinking nonjudgmentally.
The book gives complete instructions for orienting individuals with a wide range of problems to DBT and teaching them mi\ ndfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills.
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WHY LEARN TO OBSERVE AND DESCRIBE EMOTIONS? Studies have shown that people who can identify their emotions move through depression faster. By learning to observe and describe your emotions, you learn both to be separate from them and also to accept them so they don’t distress you so much. In order to better regulate your emotions,
