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Vocabulary
Time-out structure
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Another practice that can help in regulating the effects of your dramatic emotions is to
create a time-out structure. Look at your past emotional outbursts and try to determine why they happened. What triggered them? How did you feel leading up to them? What was the tipping point? If you are able to identify your triggers and your body’s reaction to them, you will learn to recognize an emotional takeover in the moment—and not let it happen.
I found something about this "time-out" here http://tinyurl.com/anfc6vz but I'm still not sure what it means to "create a time-out structure"?
Another practice that can help in regulating the effects of your dramatic emotions is to
create a time-out structure. Look at your past emotional outbursts and try to determine why they happened. What triggered them? How did you feel leading up to them? What was the tipping point? If you are able to identify your triggers and your body’s reaction to them, you will learn to recognize an emotional takeover in the moment—and not let it happen.
I found something about this "time-out" here http://tinyurl.com/anfc6vz but I'm still not sure what it means to "create a time-out structure"?
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For example, suppose you observe that you regularly explode, 1 hr. before lunch every day. Then, as a preventive measure, every day at 1 hr.
- For example, suppose you observe that you regularly explode, 1 hr.
- before lunch every day.
- Then, as a preventive measure, every day at 1 hr.
- , maybe on a park bench.
- "; etc.
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For example, suppose you observe that you regularly explode, 1 hr. before lunch every day. Then, as a preventive measure, every day at 1 hr. before lunch, you would go off somewhere by yourself and sit calmly for, say, 15 min., maybe on a park bench. So in such a case, the "time-out structure" that you'd create would be: " Mon., 11 AM, go and sit on park bench for 15 min."; "Tues., 11 AM, go an
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