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Compassion During Difficult Times, Pema Chordon

Raise Your Emotional Intelligence by Understanding Yourself

What Are Normal Emotions?

Referencing the movie “Inside Out,” this video explains how embracing uncomfortable emotions rather than avoiding, shaming or fearing them, is the healthy way to cope with moods. (6 min)

Understand Yourself

Understand YOURSELF: Feelings are what we have the most of and know the least about; handle them or they will handle you (18 min)

Tired of Feeling Mad All the Time?

Forgiveness in an Age of Anger | Brant Hansen | TEDxHarrisburg (12 min) "We think we're entitled to "righteous anger", but is it really so righteous? And does anger actually help us fight injustice?"

Pema Chodron Compassionate Abiding

Use this video to calm your mind and center yourself with self-compassion. Pema Chödrön & Tami Simon: Compassionate Abiding" on YouTube April 30 2020 40 min.

Recommended Mental Health Videos

Anxiety

Rethinking anxiety: Learning to face fear | Dawn Huebner | 2015 TEDx 18 min

Tool # 1 General anxiety| (4 min)

Tool # 2 Martha Beck PhD| Harnessing fear (9 min)

Tool # 3 4 Ways to Stop an Anxiety Spiral | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network (4 min)

Tool # 4 100 days without fear | Michelle Poler | TEDxHouston.(2015) 15 min

High Functioning Anxiety, aka perfectionism

Panic Attack

Panic Attack What is it? | (4 min)

How to STOP a Panic Attack|4 min.

Author 10% Happier, Dan

Harris Panic attack on live TV | 14 min

Understand Depression, Grief and Resilience

1. Andrew Solomon takes you across the world to interview others with depression (Ted talk 30 min)

2. This could be why you are depressed and anxious |Jon Hari |TEDSummit 2019| 21 min.

3. We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it 12 min. (Nora McInerny | TEDWomen 2018)

4. The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong | Amy Morin | TEDxOcala (15 min)

What is depression?...Not the emotion, we all have that, I mean the brain disease we also call "depression" (4 min. Ted.ED video link

Manage Anger with Compassion and Emotional Intelligence

Need emotional skills? Help for men--it's ok to embrace emotional health

1 A call to men: changing how we role model emotions | Tony Porter |Ted| 11 min

2. Anger, Compassion: What It Means To Be Strong | Russell Kolts | TEDxOlympia (13 min)

3. Author of Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress Free Living, Happy Brain: How to Overcome Our Neural Predispositions to Suffering | Amit Sood, MD | TEDxUNI| 18 min

4. Emotional Onion, Transform Anger into Insight Using Telka's Tool.

Bad Habit or Addiction?

Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in a Mental Hospital” Tedx talk by Glennon Doyle Melton for (17 min)

PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, "All or Nothing" Thoughts Verses Balanced Thoughts

1. The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder | Joelle Rabow Maletis | TED-Ed| 5 min

2. Bipolar Depression: What is bipolar disorder? 6 min (Helen M. Farrell | TED-Ed)

3. How to think in shades of grey, (balanced and logical perspective) avoid thinking in extremes of either catastrophe or perfect ” 4 min

When Things Fall Apart

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

1. How to Deal With Intrusive Thoughts (3 min)

2. Science of How OCD Works (Dealing with Brain Lock 7 min )

3. Starving The OCD Monster | Tauscha Johanson | TEDx 13 min

How to Make Stress Your Friend

Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive. We are not distressed by things, but by our view of things. Changing your attitude about stress, saves your life. | 13 min | 2013