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1. Emotional health is about how we think and feel. It is about our sense of wellbeing, our ability to cope with life events and how we acknowledge our own emotions as well as those of others. It doesn't mean being happy all of the time.

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1. Emotional health is about how we think and feel. It is about our sense of wellbeing, our ability to cope with life events and how we acknowledge our own emotions as well as those of others. It doesn't mean being happy all of the time.

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This session is a starting activity for any year group to introduce the theme of emotional health and gauge the level of understanding amongst students.
1 hour
Create a safe and positive learning environment by agreeing ground rules for the session.

Download the session What is Emotional Health?

In this session we will learn:

what emotional health means

how emotional health and physical health are linked

Resources

white board

scissors

pens

marker pens

large pieces of paper

wide range of magazines, catalogues, newspapers.

Key message

Emotional health is about how we think and feel. It is about our sense of wellbeing, our ability to cope with life events and how we acknowledge our own emotions as well as those of others. It doesn't mean being happy all of the time.

Activity

1. Give each small group paper, pens, pictures and scissors. Ask each group to draw and write on the paper and use other materials provided, magazines etc. to create a collage of a 'healthy person'. This is a person about the same age as themselves. Think about everything that person might do to be healthy. Add words and images to the image What do they do to be healthy? Encourage all students to input ideas on to the paper and to consider all aspects of being healthy.

2. Ask each group to choose their top three and feed back to the class, explaining why they chose these. Allow time for groups to feed back ideas or show what they have done. What does the class think are the most important aspects of being healthy?

3. Ask each group to choose two coloured pens - one colour for emotional health and one for physical heath. Ask each group to circle pictures and words that relate to each.

4. Divide the white board into two areas, one for physical, one for emotional, and ask groups to feed back or come up and write words under each. Were there some words that applied to both? Why is that? What is the connection?

5. Ask the students if they were surprised about anything. Was it easier to think about physical health? Explain the key message and how all of the factors identified affect how we think and feel. Physical health can affect our emotional health.

6. Summarise what we mean by emotional health and that our wellbeing is about keeping life in balance.

Extension

What would a healthy school look like - one that supports the emotional health of students and staff?

How could the emotional health of staff and students be supported?

Reflection

Why is it important for me to know about emotional health?

Links and Learning Journeys

This session links to: Rate a celebrity | Building resilience | Expressing feelings | My support network | Coping with changes | Knowing when to get support

It is also part of two suggested learning journeys:

Learning journey: learning about me: What is emotional health? | Building resilience | Let it out | Being positive | Barriers to seeking help | Making assumptions (short) | Helping my friends

Learning journey: stress: What is emotional health? | My support network | Let it out | Exam stress (short) | Talking helps: it's hard to say (short) | Coping with changes
Make sure young people know what support is available and how to access this support.

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This session is a starting activity for any year group to introduce the theme of emotional health and gauge the level of understanding amongst students.

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2. sleeping impact emotional health: If you're having problems sleeping, you might: be more likely to feel anxious, depressed or suicidal. be more likely to have psychotic episodes – poor sleep can trigger mania, psychosis or paranoia, or make existing symptoms worse.

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2. sleeping impact emotional health: If you're having problems sleeping, you might: be more likely to feel anxious, depressed or suicidal. be more likely to have psychotic episodes – poor sleep can trigger mania, psychosis or paranoia, or make existing symptoms worse.

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eating impact emotional health:
When you stick to a diet of nutrient-rich foods, you're setting yourself up for fewer mood swings and an improved ability to focus. Studies have even found that clean diets consisting of mainly whole, unprocessed foods, can help with symptoms of depression and anxiety.
stress impact emotional health:
Stress has a psychological impact that can manifest as irritability or aggression, a feeling of loss of control, insomnia, fatigue or exhaustion, sadness or tears, concentration or memory problems, or more. Continued stress can lead to other problems, such as depression, anxiety or burnout.
drugs impact emotional health:
Drugs affect a part of the brain known as the limbic system. This is the area responsible for processing our emotions. Drug-related changes to this area can contribute to depressed mood, mood swings, emotional outbursts, and persistent irritability.
weight control impact emotional:
Research suggests that excess body fat and poor eating habits increase inflammatory markers. This heightened inflammation can lead to a higher risk of developing depression and also plays a role in immune system health.
saving sex marriage emotional health:
What's more, couples who delay sex until their wedding night have more stable and happier marriages than couples who have premarital sex, according to the study, which appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.

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2. How does SEESAWS impact each component: (please use the internet to help you find your information)Sleep Eat Exercise Stress free Avoid drugs Weight control Save sex for marriage

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2. How does SEESAWS impact each component: (please use the internet to help you find your information)Sleep Eat Exercise Stress free Avoid drugs Weight control Save sex for marriage

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3. How can someone be PROACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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3. How can someone be PROACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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4. How can someone be REACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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4. How can someone be REACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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5. What are Risk Factors that you can Control in this component?

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5. What are Risk Factors that you can Control in this component?

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6. Which Body System (DRRMUNCHIS) is impacted the most in each component? Explain

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6. Which Body System (DRRMUNCHIS) is impacted the most in each component? Explain

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1.1 What is physical health example?Physical health involves many aspects of life such as: sleeping well, eating well, being physically active, having good hygiene, and getting enough relaxation.

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1.1 What is physical health example?Physical health involves many aspects of life such as: sleeping well, eating well, being physically active, having good hygiene, and getting enough relaxation.

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2. sleeping impacted health: What health conditions are linked to a lack of sleep? Adults who sleep less than 7 hours each night are more likely to say they have had health problems, including heart attack, asthma, and depression. Some of these health problems raise the risk for heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.                                                                             

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2. sleeping impacted health: What health conditions are linked to a lack of sleep? Adults who sleep less than 7 hours each night are more likely to say they have had health problems, including heart attack, asthma, and depression. Some of these health problems raise the risk for heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.                                                                             

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eating impacts health:
Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Healthy eating can help people with chronic diseases manage these conditions and avoid complications.
stress impact health:
This can put you at increased risk for a variety of physical and mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, digestive issues, headaches, muscle tension and pain, heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep problems, weight gain, and memory and concentration impairment.
drugs impacted health:
People with addiction often have one or more associated health issues, which could include lung or heart disease, stroke, cancer, or mental health conditions. Imaging scans, chest X-rays, and blood tests can show the damaging effects of long-term drug use throughout the body.
weight control impact health:
If you are overweight or obese, you are at higher risk of developing serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, gallstones, breathing problems, and certain cancers.
saving sex marriage:
"Research suggests that those who wait to have sex until marriage report significantly higher relationship satisfaction, better communication patterns, less consideration of divorce, and even better quality sex," according to Harrison.

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3.1Whether it's going on a jog, taking your dog for a walk, or working in your garden, there are a lot of ways to incorporate activity into your life on a regular basis. Regular physical activity increases your chances of living a longer, healthier life.

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3.1Whether it's going on a jog, taking your dog for a walk, or working in your garden, there are a lot of ways to incorporate activity into your life on a regular basis. Regular physical activity increases your chances of living a longer, healthier life.

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2.Drink plenty of water. Move more. Take the stairs and add walking breaks to your day. Get plenty of sleep.
3.Set specific goals for your physical activity.

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4.1.they start working out because they had obese and start eating healthy and sleep more early to help them more and get more energy to work out.

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4.1.they start working out because they had obese and start eating healthy and sleep more early to help them more and get more energy to work out.

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2.Reactive healthcare involves reacting to an adverse disease, injury, condition or symptom. If you wake up one morning with a fever and body aches, for instance, you may react by visiting the doctor. Depending on the doc’s diagnosis, he or she may prescribe you with antibiotics to help your body fight the infection. Both you and the doctor are reacting to the symptoms.
3.Healthcare in the US costs an estimated $3 trillion annually, which is roughly the twice as much as other developed nations. The cost of surgeries, prescription drugs, and other forms of treatment continues to rise, placing a heavy financial burden on Americans and their families. While there’s no way to completely eliminate these costs, there are ways to reduce it, one of which is through proactive healthcare.

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5. you can Control you health risk by eating healthy and start working out and going to the doctor to check your health 

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5. you can Control you health risk by eating healthy and start working out and going to the doctor to check your health 

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1. How do you define mental health? What is mental health? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. 

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1. How do you define mental health? What is mental health? Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. 

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Learn basic public health information about mental health including causes and types of mental illness.

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2. What are considered mental health drugs? There are five main types of psychotropic medications: antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. Antidepressants are used to treat depression. There are many different types of antidepressants.

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2. What are considered mental health drugs? There are five main types of psychotropic medications: antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. Antidepressants are used to treat depression. There are many different types of antidepressants.

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Sleeping impact mental health:
If you're having problems sleeping, you might: be more likely to feel anxious, depressed or suicidal. be more likely to have psychotic episodes – poor sleep can trigger mania, psychosis or paranoia, or make existing symptoms worse.
Eating impacts mental health:
if your blood sugar drops you might feel tired, irritable and depressed. Eating regularly and choosing foods that release energy slowly will help to keep your sugar levels steady. Slow-release energy foods include: pasta, rice, oats, wholegrain bread and cereals, nuts and seeds.
Stress impact mental health:
When stress becomes overwhelming and prolonged, the risks for mental health problems and medical problems increase. Long-term stress increases the risk of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, substance use problems, sleep problems, pain and bodily complaints such as muscle tension.
drugs impact mental health:
If you or someone you care about is chronically using drugs or alcohol it can lead to changes in the brain, which can lead to mental health issues including paranoia, depression, anxiety, aggression, hallucinations, and other problems.
Weight control impact mental health:
One study found that adults with excess weight had a 55% higher risk of developing depression over their lifetime compared to people that did not struggle with obesity. Other research linked being overweight with significant increases in major depression, bipolar disorder, and panic disorder or agoraphobia.
Saving sex marriage:
Anxiety, stress, and depression are also common sexless marriage effects on the husband. When a husband is denied sex at home for a long time, his mental health is likely to deteriorate from stress, overthinking, and inability to release the feel-good hormone from sex.

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3. Why is it important to be proactive about mental health? People that are aware and mindful of their mental health are often much happier and are more resilient than those without an awareness to proactively take care of their mental health. Adopting a proactive approach will help your business with the following: Employee retention and attraction.

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3. Why is it important to be proactive about mental health? People that are aware and mindful of their mental health are often much happier and are more resilient than those without an awareness to proactively take care of their mental health. Adopting a proactive approach will help your business with the following: Employee retention and attraction.

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Proactive vs. Reactive

Often, employers already have ongoing programs to support their sick, injured, and mentally ill employees, such as a drug plan, employee benefits, access to counselling, and sick days. However, the vast majority of the potential benefits lie in programs that actually focus on improving mental WELL-ness, rather than fixing mental ILL-ness.

When we think of the proactive approach, it is typically only met by some type of assessment or training performed in a physical sense. Why is this proactive approach not seen as a valuable ongoing routine that should be performed on our mental health?

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Often, employers already have ongoing programs to support their sick, injured, and mentally ill employees, such as a drug plan, employee benefits, access to counselling, and sick days. However, the vast majority of the potential benefits lie in programs that actually focus on improving mental WELL-ness, rather than fixing mental ILL-ness.

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4. What is reactive in mental health? Emotional reactivity happens when intense emotions are “triggered” by an external event. Often, the event leaves you feeling hurt, angry, or defensive. These triggers may cause you to lash out or act impulsively– doing or saying something you later regret.

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4. What is reactive in mental health? Emotional reactivity happens when intense emotions are “triggered” by an external event. Often, the event leaves you feeling hurt, angry, or defensive. These triggers may cause you to lash out or act impulsively– doing or saying something you later regret.

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If you're looking for strategies on how to reduce emotional reactivity, then this article is exactly what you are looking for!

Let's jump right in!

Table of Contents:

What is Emotional Reactivity?

How to Reduce Emotional Reactivity

Strategy 1: Start With Active Listening

Strategy 2: Don't Make Assumptions About What Other People Mean

Strategy 3: Take a Breath

Strategy 4: Identify What You're Feeling

Strategy 5: Identify Your Triggers

Strategy 6: Communicate Your Experience

Strategy 7: Take a 15 Minute Break

Strategy 8: Replenish Your Energy

Strategy 9: Speak to a Therapist

What is Emotional Reactivity?
Emotional reactivity happens when intense emotions are "triggered" by an external event. Often, the event leaves you feeling hurt, angry, or defensive. These triggers may cause you to lash out or act impulsively - doing or saying something you later regret.

You may be emotionally reactive if you find yourself doing the following:

You feel that you have no control over what happens or what you say

You say hurtful things to people including yourself in moments of anger

Your moods change quickly and without warning

You have suffered from depression or anxiety

You feel rage at the slightest perceived criticism

Your reactions are disproportionate to what's happening around you

Let's look at 9 strategies to reduce emotional reactivity!

Strategy 1: Start With Active Listening For How To Reduce Emotional Reactivity

The first strategy you can use to reduce emotional reactivity is active listening. Active listening is a skill-based tool that can help you respond rather than react impulsively. When you active listen, you should:

1. Try to listen unbiasedly and truly understand what the other person is trying to communicate to you.

2. Notice your thoughts and feelings, without judgment or suppression. Allow your initial reaction to flow through you, while keeping the focus on the other person.

3. If you find that you're experiencing emotions, just take a mental note. The same is true with your opinions. Remember to bring them up later, after you fully understand the other person's point of view.

Ask yourself the following questions to stay in a stance of active listening:

What is the other person feeling?

What is the experience they are sharing?

What are they saying they want or need from me?

Once you have listened fully first, then it's okay for you to politely voice how you feel. Don't take it personally if they do not agree with you. Instead, ask them to help find a solution that will work for both of you.

Remind yourself you have choices about what you say and do next, then decide how you want to proceed from there.

When necessary, use pauses in dialogue to slow things down and give yourself time to find the right words and feelings to express.

Remember that a person will not be able togive you good, accurate feedback and problem solve with you in any meaningful way if they feel attacked, criticized, defensive, or become highly emotional themselves.

It's better to calmly share your thoughts without judgment and see what type of supportive feedback the other person can offer back.

This strategy can be very powerful in reducing emotional reactivity because it gives both parties a sense that they are heard, validated, and understood.

When one person feels like they are being listened to and understood their emotions will naturally start to calm down. And as those emotions calm down, both you and the other person will be better able to think more clearly about how to respond in a healthy way.

Strategy 2: Don't Make Assumptions About What Other People Mean

A frequent cause of emotional reactivity is assuming you know what other people meant or intended without asking them. This is often a habit that people don't even realize they do.

When you begin to feel anger, rage, or frustration, it's very easy to assume that the other person intended to make you feel this way or has some malicious intentions. These unwarranted assumptions increase your risk of reacting to your emotions.

Assuming that others have malicious intent is often a habit of those who have grown up in abusive environments where people frequently did have bad intentions. That does not mean that's true now, or with everyone in your life.

After you have listened to what the other person has to say, instead of making assumptions, ask them a few questions to be sure you understood what they said.

For example: "It sounds like you're feeling hurt and uncared for because I forgot to pick you up at work and you had to wait for me for over an hour. Does that sound right?"

It is not uncommon to discover that they actually have wonderful intentions, were just looking out for you, or that they just see things differently than you, etc. None of these situations warrant emotional reactivity.

In fact, responding to others with strong emotions without fully understanding them makes it harder for other people to share with you in the future. Ask questions to get a full understanding of what people mean instead of making assumptions.

Strategy 3: Take a breath

Taking a deep breath is one of the most effective ways to calm yourself down. Breathing deeply from your diaphragm is particularly calming as it promotes slow, even oxygen flow through your body - which in turn helps your body produce endorphins ('happy chemicals').

Slow breathing also allows more time for signals coming into your brain to filter up into consciousness rather than triggering automatic responses in the autonomic nervous system. So slow breathing calms you down!

Breathe into your stomach ( rather than your chest) for 3 seconds, hold for 3 seconds, and then release your breath for 3 seconds. During your deep breathing, consider the best way to respond to the situation.

Strategy 4: Identify What You're Feeling

There is evidence to show that when you name the emotion you are feeling, specific parts of your brain are activated that help you cope with those feelings. This has proven to be just as effective as many other strategies for regulating your emotions.

The most challenging part of naming your emotions is developing a vocabulary of emotion words so you have the appropriate word for each emotion.

When you don't have a word to describe a particular emotion, both you and the person you are speaking with won't be able to fully understand your experience.

When you feel heard and understood you begin to feel calm and safe. Take some time to learn more emotional words and begin labeling all your emotions.

You can find comprehensive list of feeling words → HERE

Strategy 5: Identify Your Triggers

Emotional reactivity can sometimes seem like a whirlwind of emotion that can be hard to control. But there's usually just a few triggers that cause you to react more intensely than others

Start to identify those things that set you off the most and become aware of what happens inside your mind and body when you encounter them. (Does your heartbeat increase, shoulders tighten, heart rate increase?)

Take a moment after each time you react and write down what happened.

Later, go back to what you wrote down and try to find the deeper issue that really got under your skin.

You might ask yourself:

What was I feeling just before I started yelling/storming out? (powerless, ashamed, abandoned, rejected, small, overwhelmed, incapable, etc.).

Was there some event that triggered my reaction? (Being in a hurry, having a difficult day at work, etc.)

What was I thinking at the time? (I'm not good enough, they're trying to belittle me, etc.)

Do this every time you find yourself being reactive for 30 days. After a month, categorize what things set you off most frequently and begin to put together a thoughtful plan of action to execute the next time you begin feeling triggered.

For example, if you know that being in a hurry is one of the times when you're most likely to get angry, try leaving earlier than you need to. This will reduce your reaction to elevators, cars, or people who slow you down.

Other factors such as anxiety, phobias, and OCD may be contributing to your emotional regulations. To learn more this check out our page → HERE

Strategy 6: Communicate Your Experience Effectively

Many conversations quickly devolve into fights and conflict through blaming and shaming statements.

Blaming involves assigning fault to the other person. "If you hadn't overslept we wouldn't have missed our appointment!"

Shaming involves tearing down the character or identity of another person. "You're not very nice", You're a grouch", etc.

Blaming and shaming other people creates a painful experience in multiple ways.

It makes them feel hurt, attacked, defensive, and bitter if done repeatedly.

It makes the other person resist sharing their experience with you in the future which slowly hurts the relationship.

It can damage the long-term self-confidence of the other person.

Instead of blaming and shaming, use the communication model: When you... I feel... Because... I want ...

(When You ___) Make sure you fill in the blank with a specific action ( such as "when you don't greet me when you come home...") rather than making sweeping statements or character attacks ( such as "when you act like a jerk") which is difficult to correct and places others on defense.

(I Feel___): This is a great opportunity to express an emotion such as " sad, dismissed, anxious". Avoid expressing a thought or opinion in place of an emotion. A good example would be " I feel overlooked" as opposed to " I feel like you don't care about me, or I feel that you're being inconsiderate " which can come across as a judgment to their motives.

(Because____): This allows more context to the issue or feeling being addressed. For example, you might say "when you didn't greet me when you came home, i felt sad, because I was really looking forward to seeing you" or "when you spend money on non essential things, i feel afraid, because we don't have much money left in the bank."

( I want___) Phrase the outcome you would like in the positive without placing blame. For example, rather than saying "I want you to stop blowing all the leftover money or I want you to stop ignoring me" you might say "I want to budget how we spend our money or I want to spend a few minutes with you when you get home".

You might then ask the question "what do you think?" to further disarm the situation.

Notice that in these statements you were able to share how you felt while also avoiding any blaming or shaming language.

This can be difficult to implement but with practice it will become second nature and will help you reduce your emotional reactivity.

To learn about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and how it can help you better regulate your thoughts and emotions, check out our page → HERE

Strategy 7: Take a 15 Minute Break

When you start to feel heated, let your partner know that you're feeling overwhelmed and that you need to take a few minutes to calm down and think. Be sure to give them a specific amount of time when you will come back and finish the conversion.

Taking some time to calm down will help you to avoid saying something you might regret. It also gives you and your partner a chance to think over the situation with fresh eyes.

Taking a timeout will also help reduce unnecessary conflict because it allows the high emotional arousal levels associated with anger and frustration to go down a bit before continuing.

Strategy 8: Replenish Your Energy

Naturally, people are more reactive when they are exhausted, hungry, or under stress from some other outside situations like a graduate school exam or a difficult day at the office.

To reduce your emotional reactivity it is important that you sleep 6-8 hours a night, that you are eating healthy meals, and that you are drinking enough water.

If you aren't taking care of your body, your body will be under additional stress and won't have what it needs to be under control when you find yourself in a frustrating situation.

Utilizing mindfulness and grounding techniques throughout your day can also help set you up for success once a triggering event takes place.

You can find a great resource for mindfulness → HERE

Strategy 9: Speak to a Therapist

If you still feel out of control and find yourself being emotionally reactive, it may be time to seek outside help. A therapist can give you effective strategies on what to do when you feel out of control. With some new tools, practice, and guidance, you can get control over your reactivity.

That brings us to the end of this blog on how to be less emotionally reactive. If you would like to talk with someone, go ahead and contact us today to learn more about how we can help you.

Which strategy did you find most helpful for how to reduce emotional reactivity?

Let us know in the comments!

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3.They're self-aware. Someone who is self-aware can perceive themselves accurately and understands how their behavior comes across to others.

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5.Stressful life situations, such as financial problems, a loved one's death or a divorce. An ongoing (chronic) medical condition, such as diabetes. Brain damage as a result of a serious injury (traumatic brain injury), such as a violent blow to the head.

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1. Social health can be defined as our ability to interact and form meaningful relationships with others. It also relates to how comfortably we can adapt in social situations. Social relationships have an impact on our mental health, physical health and mortality risk. Over the years, sociologists have created a link between social relationships and health outcomes. Studies are showing that social relationships both quality and quantity are having short and long-term effects on our health. 

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sleeping impact SOCIAL health: If you're having problems sleeping, you might: be more likely to feel anxious, depressed or suicidal. be more likely to have psychotic episodes – poor sleep can trigger mania, psychosis or paranoia, or make existing symptoms worse.
eating impact SOCIAL so health:
When you stick to a diet of nutrient-rich foods, you're setting yourself up for fewer mood swings and an improved ability to focus. Studies have even found that clean diets consisting of mainly whole, unprocessed foods, can help with symptoms of depression and anxiety.
stress impact SOCIAL health:
Stress has a psychological impact that can manifest as irritability or aggression, a feeling of loss of control, insomnia, fatigue or exhaustion, sadness or tears, concentration or memory problems, or more. Continued stress can lead to other problems, such as depression, anxiety or burnout.
drugs impact SOCIAL health:
Drugs affect a part of the brain known as the limbic system. This is the area responsible for processing our emotions. Drug-related changes to this area can contribute to depressed mood, mood swings, emotional outbursts, and persistent irritability.
weight control impact SOCIAL health:
Research suggests that excess body fat and poor eating habits increase inflammatory markers. This heightened inflammation can lead to a higher risk of developing depression and also plays a role in immune system health.
saving sex marriage SOCIAL health:
What's more, couples who delay sex until their wedding night have more stable and happier marriages than couples who have premarital sex, according to the study, which appears in the Journal of Family Psychology.

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3.1.Understand Your Type. A fulfilling social life looks differently for different people.

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3.1.Understand Your Type. A fulfilling social life looks differently for different people.

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2.A fulfilling social life looks differently for different people. Some of us need lots of friends and a large social circle. Some of us are more fond a having just a few friends, but who are very close to us. And some prefer a mix of the two. What is your preference? Do you know? Take some time to think about this and visualize what your ideal social circle would look like.
3.Once you know how many and what kind of friends you’re looking for, it’s time to take action in order to meet them. This may seem obvious, but it’s something many of us disregard: if you just wait for others to come to you, you’ll never build a social circle. You must have the initiative and go to them.

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4. How can someone be REACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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4. How can someone be REACTIVE in each component (at least 3 examples for each)

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1.Reactive healthcare involves reacting to an adverse disease, injury, condition or symptom. If you wake up one morning with a fever and body aches, for instance, you may react by visiting the doctor. Depending on the doc's diagnosis, he or she may prescribe you with antibiotics to help your body fight the infection.
https://www.summitchirocare.com/proactive-vs-reactive-healthcare-whats-the-difference/

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Nearly all forms of healthcare can be broken down into one of two different categories: proactive and reactive. Unfortunately, most Americans focus strictly on reactive healthcare, only visiting the doctor's office when a problem arises. While this may seem like the best course of action, many health and wellness experts are now stressing the importance of proactive healthcare.
The Basics of Proactive vs Reactive
Reactive healthcare involves reacting to an adverse disease, injury, condition or symptom. If you wake up one morning with a fever and body aches, for instance, you may react by visiting the doctor. Depending on the doc's diagnosis, he or she may prescribe you with antibiotics to help your body fight the infection. Both you and the doctor are reacting to the symptoms.

Proactive healthcare differs from reactive in the sense that action is taking before symptoms manifest. Rather than waiting until you feel the symptoms of the cold or flu virus, you can take a proactive approach towards your health by boosting your immune system with vitamin C, antioxidants, and by drinking plenty of fluids.
Healthcare Costs
Healthcare in the US costs an estimated $3 trillion annually, which is roughly the twice as much as other developed nations. The cost of surgeries, prescription drugs, and other forms of treatment continues to rise, placing a heavy financial burden on Americans and their families. While there's no way to completely eliminate these costs, there are ways to reduce it, one of which is through proactive healthcare.

Focusing your efforts on proactive healthcare can drastically reduce these costs, however. The average cost of an ER visit in 2013 was just over $2,100 - a cost that can often be avoided through lifestyle changes. A recent study found kidney stones to be among the most expensive and common reasons for ER visits. Doctors say kidney stones are often preventable, though, through dietary and lifestyle changes.

So, how can you take a more a proactive approach towards your healthcare?
Proactive Healthcare Tips:

Schedule an appoint with your chiropractor for a spinal adjustment.

Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity can lead to a wide variety of adverse conditions if left unchecked.

Don't smoke.

Wash fruits and vegetables purchased at the supermarket to clean off any pesticide residue.

Maintain a physically active lifestyle.

Strive for a solid 7-8 hours of restful sleep per night.

Get regular "checkups" at your physician.

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Nearly all forms of healthcare can be broken down into one of two different categories: proactive and reactive. Unfortunately, most Americans focus strictly on reactive healthcare, only visiting the doctor's office when a problem arises. While this may seem like the best course of action, many health and wellness experts are now stressing the importance [...]

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5. What are Risk Factors that you can Control in this component?

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5. What are Risk Factors that you can Control in this component?

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This risk can be defined as the exposure to adverse consequences stemming from population-based activities and negative public perception. In other words, social risk is a manifestation of what goes on around us and is driven by influences inside every one of us—beliefs, emotions, mental health, fears and anxieties
http://www.rmmagazine.com/articles/article/2021/04/01/-Understanding-and-Mitigating-Social-Risk-

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The practice of risk and crisis management has been embedded in the DNA of companies and enterprises for more than a century. Over time, companies have become quite comfortable with and capable of managing the risks they understand, whether they are financial, legal or operational. They are also adept at managing these risks if they become real or perceived crises or disruptions.

However, organizations increasingly face a newer form of risk: social risk. This risk can be defined as the exposure to adverse consequences stemming from population-based activities and negative public perception. In other words, social risk is a manifestation of what goes on around us and is driven by influences inside every one of us-beliefs, emotions, mental health, fears and anxieties.

Social risk's population-based nature sets it apart from traditional risk events such as cyberattacks, workplace safety incidents, corporate malfeasance and natural disasters. Traditional risk events impact a discrete set of people, while social risk can impact broad segments of society.

The Five Characteristics of Social Risk

Research by social risk advisory firm ENODO Global and reputation and crisis management firm Kith identified five characteristics of social risk:

1. Human. Unlike traditional forms of risk that most often manifest themselves because of a discrete event or incident, social risk is built on who we are as human beings and shaped by our economic status, social mobility, community environment and mental health.

2. Dynamic. Social risk is formed by how people react to events and ideas and thus it is always evolving. For example, social risk is not necessarily the pervasive nature of socio-economic disparities in the global economy-it is the population-based reactions to those disparities.

3. Dispersed. Social risk is an outgrowth of today's connected society where nearly everyone has the ability to amplify their voice through technology and networks of family, friends, colleagues and social media followers.

4. Distinctive. Social risk is unique to each organization. Because social risk forms as humans organically react to events and ideas, no two social risk events are alike.

5. Scalable. Because social media platforms amplify public conversations accelerate social risk, it can scale very quickly from an isolated idea or conversation into a broader movement.

Social Risk in Action

In late January, wild speculation around the previously moribund video game retailer GameStop caused its stock prices to soar by 1,500% over the course of two weeks. The surge involved all kinds of market actors, including large and small investors, hedge funds, and trading platforms like consumer brokerage Robinhood. The run-up in GameStop's share price has been treated like an outgrowth of market risk. The incident even prompted federal regulators and prosecutors to investigate whether market manipulation or other types of criminal misconduct were behind the rapid increase.

While prosecutors absolutely must investigate and prosecute wrongdoing, that may be akin to treating the symptoms of an illness rather than seeking a cure for it. Many GameStop investors were not driven by perceptions of risk or opportunity in the market. No one invested in the company because they believed its market value would soon rival that of Apple or Tesla. Instead, the actions of many investors in GameStop were symptoms of social risk-people lashing out against dominant institutions in society because they believe those institutions either no longer serve them or may actively work against their interests.

"The GameStop speculators are not merely in a frenzy about one stock," wrote Sebastian Mallaby, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations and columnist for the Washington Post. "Their goal is to destroy the traders who link stock prices to fair value." Essentially, their behavior was driven by a social risk, which then triggered market risk.

Recommendations to Mitigate Social Risk

Given the broad and pervasive nature of social risk, it is folly to think any corporation is immune. Any organization, institution or individual can be its next target. Leaders can nonetheless take steps to be better prepared for social risk, see it coming, and react to it before it becomes a true crisis that plays out in public. These five recommendations can help identify and mitigate social risk:

1. Know who you are and what you stand for. By understanding its core values and establishing a chain of command that respects those values, an organization can respond to social risk with speed, clarity and confidence.

2. Create an ecosystem of diverse partners. A diverse ecosystem will create an "early warning system" to help identify social risk before it manifests as a threat or crisis-provided you stay engaged with this ecosystem in a genuine dialogue.

3. Ask, don't tell. When developing a social risk management strategy, getting honest feedback can help you avoid pitfalls and build credibility. Similar to engaging partners, this must be approached by listening rather than telling.

4. Communicate constantly. In an age of social risk, communicating is not about pushing information to audiences. Rather, it is a methodical approach to all facets of a communications strategy that fosters dialogue.

5. Act with humanity. Social risk is driven by human emotions that must be respected and appreciated. This is the difference between electric scooter-sharing start-up Bird laying off 400 employees in a Zoom call during the early days of COVID-19 and Valencia College's administrators calling each of their 40,000 students just to check in on them.

A New Approach

Social risk is far too pervasive and diverse for any single company, political institution or leader to stop. Companies must be very careful in relying on the traditional crisis playbook of "Acknowledge, Apologize, Act," where you seek to make amends to the audiences most impacted by the incident or chain of events. Social risk is too broad for that.

Addressing social risk requires looking at its causes from a systemic standpoint, not on an event-by-event basis. The solutions must be focused on the same societal level as its causes, including poverty, injustice, isolation due to the pandemic and mental health challenges.

However, executives and leaders can mitigate social risk's worst effects and impacts on corporate reputation if they acknowledge its existence, that it touches all of society, and that it comes from the perceptions and beliefs all of us have. By seeking solutions and committing to changing the status quo and attaining a higher degree of empathetic engagement with important audiences and partners, social risk can be addressed more effectively.

Robert Ludke is a senior advisor at crisis communications firm Kith and is part of the network of experts at RANE, Risk Assistance, Network + Exchange.

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Risk Management Magazine - Understanding and Mitigating Social Risk

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6. physical health falls in muscular system because you need to exercise.

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6. physical health falls in muscular system because you need to exercise.

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i learned that with out physical health you can't move anymore

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i learned that with out physical health you can't move anymore

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6. mental health falls in nervous system because you are able to feel feelings 

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6. emotional health hormone system express

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