Rebounding from Daily News stress
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The news feeds are filled with some much information about what it "going wrong". It can throw us into fear, anger, sadness, helplessness, exasperation, and distress. Most of the time we can't actively do anything in response to the news and become frozen in our emotional response. Many people get so upset that eventually they avoid news and social media all together.
There is another way...
We might think it's breathing, meditation, go for a walk or to the gym, have some wine or chocolate, pray or other popular techniques to control overwhelming emotions. But these techniques just control the emotion temporarily; they don't get rid of the emotion. The next time we watch a news show or read a twitter feed, the emotion is BACK! and we are crushed again.
Why would you want to get rid of the emotional response to the news?
Don't we want to stay shocked and horrified when we see these things? If we lose those emotions, how do we remain compassionate to someone else's loss or be moved to lend a helping hand when a need or cause calls to us?
It turns out that the "negative", stressful response to news does exactly the opposite of what we think. It keeps us from being as compassionate as we could be and taking action where we can.
When we have a stressful reaction to the news or anything else, in those moments, our mind is flooded with emotions. Our mind is a simple machine, capable of processing only a small amount of information at any given time. Emotion can easily drown out our ability to think clearly, find a solution or bridge to action.
Beneath our awareness, the "disturbing" news has stimulated our subconscious to create physical sensations in the body as precursors to emotions that the brain will act upon. When the emotional volume gets high enough, it acts as a veil or cloud, slowing/preventing some higher brain functions, if only because the emotions chew-up all available capacity.
When we resolve the disturbing emotions, the emotional veil is removed. Our mind, cleared of distracting emotion, has so much more space in which to operate. Now it can engage in a volunteer opportunity, arrange a donation, join an action committee, find a larger context for the news byte or simply take in the information and calmly wait for the next news cycle to unfold.
But how do we release the disturbing emotions?
Emotional Resolution (EmRes) can remove the emotions that are prompted while watching the news. Thru EmRes sessions (EmRes-Session) or on your own (Self-EmRes) you will be able to watch the news, stay informed, but not on the edge of your seat.
EmRes is the emerging technique for emotional resolution that will soon be on everyone's lips. It's a simple process that take place in a very short time and can be easily learned. There is no triggering, no personal information need be shared and the original trauma does not need to be known or shared. It's truly amazing how well such a simple process works.
Removing stressful emotional responses to the news actually opens up more compassion in us for other and ourselves. We can stay in touch with our community and world without the shock and horror routine.
Change your life by to taking in the news information and acting on it if you can... letting go if you can't.
Are you ready for stress-free news?