Processing Disgust: Steps to Build Resilience and Curiosity

So, if you find yourself feeling an emotion like disgust, or anything along those lines, guilty, mortified, the method for processing that and becoming more resilient is like this: according to my model, distract yourself. Notice the emotions you're feeling and don't let them get you down; do something different. Then, it's going to take you to soothe. So, when you're feeling a sense of disgust and you're able to distract yourself, then turn around and focus on self-soothing techniques. I have another video about that. From there, it's helpful to imagine another time in your life that you maybe forgot about and distract yourself further with something that's like a positive memory. After you take a little bit of time to take care of yourself, go back and look at the situation that made you feel disgust to begin with and reframe it. Think about alternative scenarios, and eventually, land on a mindset of curiosity. The kind of resilient attitude or mindset that is helpful from a state of disgust is to cultivate curiosity. There you go.

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