Our ability to recover from a crisis is how to manage distress tolerance. Distress tolerance is helpful when our emotions are high and we utilize destructive actions such as isolating ourselves, drug use, drinking, violence, or talking to ourselves in a demeaning way.
By managing our current crisis, we prevent making things worse for ourselves. We must accept reality and stop satisfying our immediate urges, desires, and intense emotions.
Focusing on the present moment allows us to accept the reality of life as it is, which leads us out of the darkness. When we are free from the darkness, we find peace and contentment in our lives regardless of our circumstances.
Living in crisis is not the plan for our life. We can turn unbearable pain into suffering that we can tolerate. How? Once we accept the reality of our situation and realize that the intense, panicky moment will pass, we will no longer have to satisfy our destructive urges.
Reflection:
“Taking a wrong turn allows you to see landscapes you wouldn’t otherwise have seen”.-Rick Rubin“The Creative: Way of Being”
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Peace
Larry
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