What is acting the opposite way you feel?
What is acting the opposite way you feel?
Opposite action is a dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skill that involves choosing to do exactly the opposite of what your emotions tell you to do. When you think about it, we all have emotions that can cause us to make choices we’d rather not make.
How do you do the opposite action?
The Four Steps of Opposite Action
- Identify the emotion.
- Identify the action urge that accompanies the emotion.
- Identify whether the action urge fits the facts of the situation (not the facts of the emotion).
What are some opposite emotions?
Opposites: Each primary emotion has a polar opposite….Interpreting Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
- Joy is the opposite of sadness.
- Fear is the opposite of anger.
- Anticipation is the opposite of surprise.
- Disgust is the opposite of trust.
How do you emotionally regulate?
There are a number of skills that can help us self-regulate our emotions.
- Create space. Emotions happen fast.
- Noticing what you feel.
- Naming what you feel.
- Accepting the emotion.
- Practicing mindfulness.
- Identify and reduce triggers.
- Tune into physical symptoms.
- Consider the story you are telling yourself.
What’s the opposite of feel?
What is the opposite of feel?
| ignore | disregard |
|---|---|
| neglect | leave |
| overlook | unheed |
| unmind | avoid |
| leave alone | pass over |
Is urge an emotion?
Emotions are powerful motivators that mobilize us to behave in certain ways. Each emotion comes with a related action urge. For example, when we are fearful, we may feel the urge to avoid or escape the source of that anxiety.
Why is opposite Action helpful?
Opposite Action works best when we take the time to make sure we have correctly identified the action urge that fits our unique emotional and behavioral response (two people may experience very different action urges for the same emotion) and when we engage in the action fully.
How can feelings affect our actions?
Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior.