Coaching practices for When a Strong Feeling Hits I Just Become it I Am the Anger I Am the Fear Completely Fused with it and I've Lost Any Sense of a Steadier Part of Me That Could Simply Watch the Storm Pass Through Without Being the Storm

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• When a feeling takes me over I become it completely
• When a strong feeling hits I just become it
• When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
• When a wave of fear or anger hits, it swallows me whole and I react before I even know I’ve reacted
• When a big emotion hits, it becomes the whole world

Practices that may help

1. Notice the noticer: find the observing awareness
   Shift attention from what you are noticing to the awareness that is doing the noticing.
   The Witness Stance
2. Cultivate the witness — the part that observes without being pulled
   The Gita distinguishes between the field of action (the body-mind in the world) and the knower of the field — cultivate both.
   The Bhagavad Gita on Action: Nishkama Karma in Practice
3. 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
4. Return to the observer during difficult emotional moments
   When flooded by emotion, briefly step to the observing perspective before responding.
   Self-as-Context (Observing Self), Made Practical
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. RAIN — Recognize what is happening
   Pause and name the emotion or experience present right now, without editing it.
   Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
9. Name what the emotion is doing in your body
   Track the physical signs of the emotion as they move through — this alone reduces their intensity.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
10. 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

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