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Summary: How do we stay calm? With all the panic going on with the COVID-19 outbreak, and the social distancing, and store shelves being raided bare, how does one handle the torrential rainfall of emotion involved? Benjamin dives right in, in this episode.

Questions: podcast@heraldsoflife.com
Coronavirus COVID-19 in the US: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

In this episode:

• Coronavirus panic
• How do we stay calm?
• Managing emotions
• Emotions vs logic
• Prefrontal cortex and the Limbic brain
• Revealing emotion
• Let-Go Techniques
  1- Write and burn
  2- Walk and talk
  3- Vocal Expression
  4- Deep Breathing
• Psychology behind destroying pages of negative journaling
• Upgrading our story of events
• We are very good at making up stories
• This too shall pass
• Why breath control works
• Steps
  1- Identify the emotion
  2- Calm yourself down
  3- Upgrade your story and read it aloud

“Managing emotions is how we stay calm.”
“This too shall pass”