EMOTIONAL WELLNESS with Dr. Mark Lerner
Emotional Wellness with Dr. Mark Lerner is a micro-audio podcast series focused on what you need to know—rather than what’s nice to know—for listeners worldwide.
The National Center for Emotional Wellness defines emotional wellness as the awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings—and the ability to effectively manage challenges and change. It also reflects our capacity to sublimate: to harness painful emotional energy from adversity and channel it into action—not merely to survive, but to thrive.
The mission of the Center is to advance emotional well-being by integrating technology, evidence-based strategies, and the irreplaceable power of authentic human presence.
Grounded in AI-Integrated Emotional Wellness (AIEW), this series incorporates accessible, evidence-based information with the irreplaceable power of genuine human presence. It is designed for individuals, leaders, and diverse organizations navigating our increasingly complex and rapidly evolving technological world.
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EMOTIONAL WELLNESS with Dr. Mark Lerner
12 Practical Strategies for Emotional Wellness
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Here is a concise list of things you can do for yourself to foster emotional wellness. Please share these with your friends and loved ones
The National Center for Emotional Wellness presents Emotional Wellness with Dr. Mark Lerner. Twelve Practical Strategies for Emotional Wellness. An AI integrated emotional wellness perspective. The National Center defines emotional wellness as the awareness, understanding, and acceptance of our feelings, and the ability to effectively manage challenges and change. It also reflects our capacity to sublimate, to harness painful emotional energy from adversity, and channel it into action, not merely to survive, but to thrive. AI integrated emotional wellness refers to the ethical and responsible interface between the cognitive abilities of artificial intelligence and the depth, uniqueness, and complexity of human emotion. While AI can provide accessible, evidence-based strategies, tools, and support to promote emotional well-being, AI integrated emotional wellness recognizes a fundamental truth. Authentic face-to-face human presence remains irreplaceable and essential for emotional wellness. As an AI integrated emotional wellness consultant, I'm frequently asked for practical strategies and tools to promote emotional well-being. While the Center's emotional wellness library provides clinical, evidence-based resources that empower both people and AI with accessible information, knowledge, and techniques, I recognize that people are often looking for simple strategies they can use in their daily lives. Following is a concise list of things you can do for yourself. Please share these with your friends and loved ones. For example, I'm feeling nervous. I'm feeling sad. I'm feeling angry. I'm feeling alone. Two, try to identify your thoughts and how they precipitate your feelings. For example, I've been thinking about what she said to me and I'm feeling angry. This process can give you back a sense of control. AI integrated emotional wellness can help provide accessible evidence-based strategies to identify patterns in your thinking and provide you with direction. 3. Accept that your feelings are not right or wrong, they just are. It's been said that when one denies their feelings, they deny the truth. Four, after labeling a feeling, consciously slow down and think before you act. Make goal directed choices. Five, realize that you can choose your focus, what you think about. Here's one of my favorite quotes. Everything can be taken from a man or woman, but one thing, the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Dr. Vick Victor E. Frankel. I'm choosing to write to you. 6. If you find yourself thinking repetitively about something that's causing you emotional discomfort, for example, ruminating, identify the thought and try to dismiss it. For example, stop it. This isn't productive. And replace it with a healing thought. For example, I'll focus on being my best self. 7. Know that it's okay not to be okay during challenges and change. Allow yourself to experience normal reactions in the face of an atypical or abnormal event. 8. If you're grappling with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, change what you're doing. For example, take a walk, exercise, listen to music, read, watch a documentary, speak with a friend or family member, write about emotional wellness. 9. Speak with people with whom you can share your thoughts and feelings. People who listen more than they speak. Rely on genuine interpersonal face-to-face communication. AI integrated emotional wellness is grounded in this principle. While artificial intelligence can provide accessible information and support, authentic face-to-face human presence is irreplaceable and essential for emotional well-being. 10. Have the benefit of speaking with a counselor or therapist. PsychologyToday.com is a great database to help you find someone in your area. 11. Explore how chatbots and virtual therapists can be an adjunct to mental health care. Remember that while artificial intelligence can provide immediate, accessible, evidence-based support, it's most effective when we integrate it with genuine human connection, AI integrated emotional wellness. And twelve, as I've encouraged people to do for nearly four decades in thegreatestcareer.com, strive to become the person you would ideally like to be. Thank you for listening to this program from the National Center for Emotional Wellness. To learn more about the Center's accessible information, engaging presentations, and innovative consultation, visit National Center for Emotional Wellness dot org. Until next time, remember, technology informs us. Humanity empowers us.