https://blog.hearty.me/en/tags/emotional-regulation/Recent content in Emotional Regulation on Hearty Journal Blog | Feel the Warmth of Words and LifeHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USSat, 05 Sep 2026 15:53:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/how-to-deal-with-bad-mood/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:53:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/how-to-deal-with-bad-mood/A bad mood often comes from a tangle of feelings like anxiety, hurt, jealousy, fear, and disappointment. Until you tell them apart, all you know is that you feel off.https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/how-to-keep-small-joys-alive/Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:02:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/how-to-keep-small-joys-alive/<p>What happy moments have you collected in your journal?</p> <p>For many people, a journal serves two main purposes: letting things out and remembering. It can hold every moment you want to keep: a beautiful view you saw, the song you had on repeat for a while, a book or movie that moved you deeply, your cat purring on your lap, your dog wagging its tail every time you come home &hellip;&hellip; Once you write them down, they won&rsquo;t quietly fade away in the rush of life. No matter how much time passes, they can carry you right back to that happy moment.</p>https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/stop-catastrophic-thinking/Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:12:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/stop-catastrophic-thinking/<p>Do you often imagine the worst-case scenario? Keep picturing every bad thing that could happen until you&rsquo;ve scared yourself half to death? ∑(°口°๑)❢❢</p> <p>That&rsquo;s catastrophic thinking: a thinking pattern that&rsquo;s especially sensitive to uncertainty, always running scenarios in advance, and prone to letting the imagination run wild!</p> <p>Over time, it makes it hard to enjoy the present and keeps you trapped in worries about the future (most of which aren&rsquo;t even true). You can even fall into a vicious cycle of &ldquo;something bad is definitely going to happen, and I won&rsquo;t be able to handle it,&rdquo; which leaves you completely drained.</p>https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/journaling-for-self-awareness/Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:04:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/journaling-for-self-awareness/<p>What does &ldquo;self-awareness&rdquo; mean? It&rsquo;s the ability to notice and understand your own emotions, thoughts, and patterns of behavior: knowing what&rsquo;s going on with you right now, and roughly what&rsquo;s causing it. The better we understand ourselves, the less likely we are to be swept away by our emotions, and the more we can respond to others in ways that truly reflect what we want.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s an example:</p> <ul> <li>Without self-awareness → Someone says something that makes you furious, you snap back right away, and regret it later.</li> <li>With self-awareness → I feel disrespected, so I first ask myself: &ldquo;Do I want to respond? How should I respond to get the outcome I actually want?&rdquo;</li> </ul> <p>Self-awareness means seeing your inner reactions, then choosing the action you want to take.</p>https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/3-journaling-techniques-for-bad-mood/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:22:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/3-journaling-techniques-for-bad-mood/Besides exercise or music, journaling can lift a bad mood. Try expressive writing, affect labeling, and narrative reframing to clear your head and calm your mind.https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/anxiety-relief-tips-psychology/Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0800https://blog.hearty.me/en/p/anxiety-relief-tips-psychology/Anxiety spiraling and your mind won't stop? Here are 11 psychology-based ways to calm down, from journaling and soothing your five senses to finding flow.