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#910 - Dr Julie Smith - The Science Of Emotional Intelligence & Self-Understanding

2025/3/3
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我是一名临床心理学家,长期以来致力于帮助人们理解和管理情绪。人们普遍面临的问题是,他们有一些不想拥有的情绪,以及一些想拥有却不知道如何获得的情绪。我们缺乏管理和理解情绪的工具和词汇,甚至连表达情绪的词汇都非常有限。理解情绪并非人类的失败,而是测量方法的局限性。过度思考是现在很普遍的问题,这与快节奏的生活、不断提高的期望值以及传统角色分工的改变有关。应对过度思考,需要全面考虑生活压力,而非仅仅关注思考内容本身。过度思考也可能是因为基本需求得到满足后,人们开始关注更高层次的需求。应对过度思考,可以通过识别并理解其循环模式来打破循环。睡眠不足会影响情绪调节能力。面对恐惧,应该积极主动地采取行动,而非被动地承受。行动是克服焦虑的良药。恐惧是勇气的核心组成部分,直面恐惧才能突破自我限制。面对健康问题和不确定性,应专注于下一步行动,而非被焦虑吞噬。理解童年经历,需要在专业人士的帮助下,以建设性的方式进行,避免陷入怨恨和痛苦。与无法改变的过去和解,需要理解父母的背景和局限性。与父母和解,不应依赖于父母的道歉或理解,而应建立一种现实的成年人之间的关系。生活中没有完美的解决方案,只有权衡取舍。父母在养育孩子过程中会感到内疚,这很正常,关键在于区分内疚的来源和如何应对。讨好型人格的形成与童年经历有关,它并非单纯的友善,而是以牺牲自身利益为代价去取悦他人。学会说不,需要学习和练习,并从小事做起,循序渐进。应对被动攻击型的人,需要观察学习,并根据情况做出相应调整,包括直接沟通或逐渐疏远。在亲密关系中,早期阶段面临的挑战主要包括单相思和难以亲密。处理回避型依恋和焦虑型依恋的矛盾,需要双方提高对彼此模式的理解和包容,并努力发展更安全的依恋模式。面对单相思,应专注于提升自我价值感,减少对被拒绝的恐惧。处理争吵的关键在于以重建连接为目标,而非追求输赢。应对内在批判性声音,应将其视为一种需要改进的习惯,而非自我价值的体现。应对自我怀疑,需要诚实地面对问题,并采取相应的行动。在情绪激动时,寻求他人的支持和帮助至关重要。压抑情绪会阻碍自我成长,应学习如何与情绪相处。

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This chapter explores the difficulties humans face in understanding emotions due to limited vocabulary, complex nature of emotions, and the lack of comprehensive models. It discusses the challenges of measuring and quantifying emotions and the tendency to oversimplify them. The chapter also touches upon the correlation between stress levels and overthinking.
  • Limited vocabulary hinders emotional expression and understanding.
  • Stress and high arousal levels increase vulnerability to overthinking.
  • Overthinking is often a response to high stress levels, not an inherent personality flaw.
  • Addressing overthinking requires examining the full context of one's life, including stress levels.

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Dr. Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist, author, and content creator.

Discovering who you are is a lifelong journey. Understanding your past, unpacking emotions, and gaining self-awareness are all part of the process. So how do we move beyond our past and emotions that hold us back, to create a fulfilling and happy life?

Expect to learn why emotions are so hard to understand, how to better understand your childhood, how to forgive your parents, why people keep saying yes when they want to say no, how to deal with passive-aggressive people better, how to get better at asking for help, why we compare ourselves to others so much, why its so hard to be with yourself, how to work out what really matters in your life and much more…

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