Coaching practices for Investigate Emotions Mindfully

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• There’s this feeling sitting in me and I can feel it in my body, but I don’t really get what it’s about or what it wants from me, and I want to get curious about it instead of just analyzing myself.
• When I’m upset I’m completely fused with the story
• The instant a feeling hits I’m already inside it, reacting before I’ve had a single second to choose
• I can feel the feeling and I’m not running from it, but I have no idea what it’s really about
• I’ll snap at someone or make a bad call and only realize hours later that I was already in a mood the whole time

Practices that may help

1. I — Investigate with gentle, curious attention
   Bring kind curiosity to the emotion: Where is it in the body? What does it most need?
   RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
2. 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
3. Mindfulness and Wise Mind
   Observe and describe your experience without judgment, finding the balance between emotion mind and reason mind.
   Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical
4. RAIN — Investigate with kindness
   Gently explore what the feeling is about and what it most needs — with curiosity, not interrogation.
   Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
5. Self-awareness
   Notice your emotions as they arise and recognize how they shape your judgment and behavior.
   Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical
6. 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
7. R — Recognize what is happening
   Pause and name what is actually present: "Fear is here," "Anger is here," "Shame is here."
   RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
8. Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
   When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
9. Check the facts
   Before acting on an emotion, ask whether your interpretation of the situation actually fits the evidence.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
10. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
    After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
    The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary

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