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How good is your Emotional & Energy Regulation?
It’s really important to know your own Emotional and Energy Regulation skills at
different times and in different situations. It means you can plan to stay in control
of your energy and feelings rather than let them take control of you (we call this
preparation ‘Prep4Best’).
If you leave it to the moment you are actually in a situation in which you get big
feelings or too much or too little energy, it will be much more difficult to manage
these emotions or change your energy levels. It’s just harder to do that stuff
suddenly if you haven’t planned ahead.
If you have thought about it ahead of time and planned how you would like to
react (Prepped4Best), it will be much easier to respond in the way you want to – in
a way that will be good for you and good for everyone around
you – just like we mentioned in the section on Impulse Control.
Have a think about your own Emotional & Energy Regulation Skills.
▪ When do you manage to stay in control even when you have big feelings?
▪ When do you manage to get calm quickly?
▪ When do your emotions take over and take charge of what you say and do?
▪ Are these helpful or unhelpful times for you or others in your life?
On the next pages are some top tips for helping people when they find it harder to
focus Attention Control on one thing for a long time.
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