129. Emotions as Feedback – Listening, Feeling, and Using Them Wisely

We explore how to treat emotions as feedback rather than identity, and how a few small shifts in language and practice can stop spirals, reduce conflict, and build emotional resilience. We share tools to ground the nervous system, separate feelings from perceptions, and use the 90-second rule to respond with clarity.

• emotions as signals that guide choices
• filters, beliefs, and conditioning shaping reactions
• expanding emotional vocabulary beyond glad, mad, sad
• language shift from I am to I am feeling
• feelings in the body vs perceptions in the mind
• the 90-second emotional wave and rumination
• pausing to let the snow globe settle
• walking away to re-center during escalation
• escape, suppression, and repression defined
• costs of unfelt feelings on body and relationships
• tools: 5-4-3-2-1 grounding and name-pause-allow
• checking beliefs with others to defuse conflict
• emotional education as prevention and repair

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