Name That Emotion: A Mindful Approach to Understanding Your Feelings and Reducing Stress

By Erin Olivo

Are you feeling stressed out? In order to really manage your stress, you have to know what emotion you’re feeling. Name That Emotion brings you a free ebook by psychotherapist and Columbia University professor Dr. Erin Olivo to help you learn how to identify and accurately label your emotions. The good news is that all emotions can basically be divided into eight core categories: fear, anger, sadness, shame, disgust, jealousy, happiness, and love.

Drawing from her recent book Wise Mind Living, Dr. Olivo takes you step by step through the phases of what she calls “the cycle of emotions,” including prompting events, interpretations, actions, and aftereffects. You’ll learn how you can begin to intervene and change the nature of your emotional life to alleviate stress and suffering, how to practice acceptance of what you can’t change, and how to live with the greater sense of peace and control that comes from building moment-to-moment mindful awareness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Release date: Jul 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781622037384

Erin Olivo

Erin Olivo, PhD, is an assistant clinical professor of medical psychology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the former director of the Columbia Integrative Medicine Program, which she headed in collaboration with Dr. Mehmet Oz. Dr. Olivo has intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and clinical hypnosis, and has a psychotherapy practice in New York City. Learn more at erinolivo.com

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Name That Emotion

A Mindful Approach to Understanding Your Feelings and Reducing Stress

IT WAS A CASE of emotional mistaken identity that tripped up Burt in his late-night interactions with his son. As Burt waited into the wee hours of the morning for Jonah to come home—way past curfew, again—Burt knew he was angry, angry, angry. Working through the experience afterward, however, he got no further than the second step of writing a Wise Mind Review (chapter 3 of Wise Mind Living) before he was inspired to think differently about his conflict with Jonah. As he looked at his notes, he suddenly recognized his thoughts were about fear rather than anger. As he remembered that night, he recalled that the longer past midnight it got, the more terrible thoughts he had about what could be keeping his son: a car accident, drunkenness, a fistfight. You name it, and Burt’s brain could conjure dire images of it. Looking at all that on the page, he could see it: he wasn’t so much furious at his son as he was worried for him.

That distinction made all the difference for Burt (and Jonah). Changing the way he labeled his emotion changed what Burt thought and did, so it also changed the results he got. Burt became mindful of his emotions by using a Wise Mind Review to observe and better understand not only his emotions but also their component parts. Then he was able to work with his emotions, changing what he didn’t like, accepting what he couldn’t change, and reducing his suffering all the while. An important first step for Burt, or anyone, was identifying the right label for what he

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Very helpful! Easy to read and practical. I Highly Recommended.

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