The Happiness Port Project

I'm going to share some tips that was shared with me last week through an employee meeting at my full-time job. Corporate is very helpful.

Self-awareness and Self-management

1 Emotional Self-Awareness: Identify and be able to name or label what you are feeling. Emotions are sensations in the body and when you go to your brain to label it, then it is a feeling. So, feelings are cognitively saturated.
2 Accept your feelings as information for you. They are not right or wrong. Feelings are information about what is going on for you. Can you look at these feelings in a non-judgmental way?
3 Managing anxiety: much of anxiety is about a future threat. What if I get the Corona Virus or someone in my family gets it? What if I lose my job? It goes on and on. Many of these anxieties can be exaggerated by catastrophizing. Ask yourself, is this true? How do you know it's true? What would be your plan if it was? Making a plan can bring in more cognitive certainty than the random floating anxiety. You will feel a bit more in control.

Self-Compassion: Be on Your Side

Three Core Components:
4 Self-kindness vs. Self-judgement
5 Common humanity vs. isolation - understand that all people are now feeling similar feelings about COVID-19 and you are not alone with this challenge.
6 Mindfulness vs. Overidentification - when relating to painful experiences, do so without judging.

I found a beautiful article about How to Build Courage During Difficult Times