Coaching practices for How to Calm Down Emotions
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- I’m so flooded right now I can’t think
- When I’m upset I’m completely fused with the story
- I can feel an argument tipping over the edge
- Something just set me off and I can feel it surging right now
- When a wave of anger or panic hits, it feels like it’ll swallow me whole if I don’t do something right now
Practices that may help
- TIPP: Rapid Physiological De-escalation for Intense Distress
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to bring crisis-level emotion down quickly.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - O — Observe: Notice What Is Actually Happening
After the stop, observe the situation, your emotions, and your urges — without judgment and without acting on them.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Label emotions during conflict to reduce escalation
Name your own and the other person’s emotional state during a tense conversation to prevent escalation.
Name It to Tame It: Affect Labeling in Practice - Observe the emotion without feeding it
When a strong emotion hits, watch it without adding the story that keeps it going.
The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical - Riding the emotion wave with anicca awareness
When a strong emotion hits, track it through its full arc — notice it peak and fall without fleeing or amplifying.
Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence - Co-regulation (borrow a calmer nervous system)
Use contact with a calm, safe person to bring your own system down — we regulate through each other first.
Polyvagal Theory, Honestly Explained - Physical self-soothing
Use touch, warmth, rocking, or breath to directly calm the nervous system.
Self-Soothing, Made Practical - Self-soothe through the five senses
Deliberately comfort yourself through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch while the crisis peaks.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical - Mindfulness of the current emotion
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical - TIPP — change your body chemistry fast
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Progressive muscle relaxation to drop overwhelm from the body up.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
Related concerns
- How To Control Your Emotions Like Ayanokoji
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
Mindfulness of the current emotion
- How To Deal With Emotions During Period
When a strong emotion hits, track it through its full arc — notice it peak and fall without fleeing or amplifying.
Riding the emotion wave with anicca awareness
- How To Manage Intense Emotions
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to bring crisis-level emotion down quickly.
TIPP: Rapid Physiological De-escalation for Intense Distress
- What To Do When Emotions Are Overwhelming
Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
- What To Do When You Are Overwhelmed With Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- Brief Mindfulness For Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
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