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Hi Elsabeth. In heated situations, I suggest a strategy not mentioned in this piece: taking a pause and stepping back to gain perspective. I believe this approach can be more effective in such moments.

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Some excellent strategies for emotional regulation!

This is something we utilize a lot as triathletes during training and racing.

I wrote a post a few months back- How to Hack Your Emotions for Better Performance about flipping the script on negative emotions, creating a pattern-breaking phrase, and using pre-race visualization.

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Nice article. Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you for reading! I’m happy to hear you liked it.

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Thank you for sharing this article. I suspect I rely on one more than any others so I need to rethink this. These are also great tools to introduce my teenage son to.

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Glad you liked it, Michelle. I think young people should definitely be taught emotion regulation!

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Do you have any tips on how to practice choosing between those strategies in a heated situation, when it's easy to be impulsive?

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