Emotional vulnerability is putting yourself out there, intentionally or unintentionally. Showing a part of yourself that you may feel sensitive about, exposing something that makes you feel seen by others. Like think about the last time you were emotionally vulnerable with someone.
Here are few tips for reducing emotional vulnerability :
Step 1 : Accumulate the Positives
- Build positive experiences. Do pleasant things possible now and makes changes in your life so that positive events will occur more often by working towards goals, attending to relationships, and avoid giving up.
- Be mindful of positive experiences. Focus attention on positive events that happen and refocus when your mind wanders to any distractions, regrets, or worries, participate in the experience and turn the mind.
- Be unmindful of worries. Don’t think about when the experience will end, if you deserve it, or what will be expected of you now.
Step 2 : Building Mastery
- Plan one or more activities each day to build a sense of accomplishments
- Do something difficult, but possible plan for success, not failure.
- If the first task is too difficult, do something easier today, gradually increase the difficulty over time.
Step 3 : Cope Ahead for Emotional Situations
- Describe situation, check facts, be specific.
- Decide what coping or problem solving skills you want to use, write out in detail, be specific.
- Imagine the situation in your head vividly, and yourself in the situation, not watching it.
- Rehearse in your mind coping effectively, exactly what you could do, your actions, thoughts, what you say, and how you say it.
Let’s clarify what being secure isn’t. It isn’t egotism that you use like a weapon to selfishly get your own way. It isn’t suppressing what you don’t like about yourself and achieving a confident self-image that doesn’t exist inside. It isn’t something that can be created through money, status, possessions, or any other material surrogate. There are countless people sitting in the lap of luxury who feel even more insecure than the average person. This is because the source of invulnerability is all inside, where you relate to yourself.
I think the most important part of this post is to accumulate the positives. You absolutely have to dwell on and accumulate the positives in your life instead of the negatives. All of us are guilty of dwelling on the negative experiences and we forget the positive things that we have done or experienced too quickly.
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Yes that is true. Research shows that a positive attitude can heal the mind and body. Having a positive attitude: Helps reduce the effects of stress, so that you can manage stress instead of stress managing you. Maintain a journal of good things can help .
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Thank you for the kind words Aarushi.
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This will be SO helpful to many people, as well as myself . . . especially me! Thank you. 😀
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Emotional vulnerability is the willingness to acknowledge you … to prepare you to deal with the threat, and you experience the emotion of fear. That’s a lot 😃
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I’m a willing learner. 😀
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That is wonderful.
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Thank you for sharing
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you for sharing
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Great tips! Really good advice here! Thank you! Xx
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Emotional vulnerability is most often felt as anxiety about being rejected, shamed, or judged as inadequate. It has been defined by Brene Brown as “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure” (2012). Think about that for a moment. Uncertainty is a given in every day of our lives.
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Thank you for sharing
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Know yourself and what you bring to the table
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Hi Garima,
Very timely tips for everyone’s overall health. I like the steps you mentioned and even the half-steps if things take longer than anticipated.
Thank you,
Gary
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:32 AM Be Inspired..!! wrote:
> GS posted: ” Emotional vulnerability is putting yourself out there, > intentionally or unintentionally. Showing a part of yourself that you may > feel sensitive about, exposing something that makes you feel seen by > others. Like think about the last time you were emotiona” >
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Being emotionally vulnerable means that you’re not emotionally stable enough to sustain a thriving, healthy relationship. Need to change that.
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That’s right.
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Glad you agree.
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