Opposite Emotions
What is the Opposite of Happy?
Sad
What is the Opposite action for Anger?
Be gentle, find empathy
What is the Urge for Anxiety?
Avoid, Escape, Refuse
The experience of lethargy is often accompanied by a lack of mental, physical, and emotional energy. There may be urges to avoid doing much of anything. Lethargy may be accompanied by the sense that just about anything would take a colossal amount of effort. There is often a strong desire to sit and do nothing at all.
What Could you do as an opposite action to this?
Try making a list of things that you can do. Ideally, these should be things that can be realistically attained in the short-term. For example, despite a feeling of lethargy, you are capable of doing small things like washing the dishes, doing laundry, or tidying up. These are all behaviors that directly go against the feeling of lethargy, which can create an opposite emotional experience.
What is the Opposite of Angry?
calm
cheerful
happy
content
What is the Opposite Action for Anxiety?
Approach, Engage
What is the Action Urge for Shame?
Hide, isolate
Social withdrawal is often experienced as a desire to avoid contact with other people and isolate oneself from contact with the world. There may be an accompanying emotional experience of sadness or depression. When you feel yourself withdrawing from others, there is often a feeling that it would take monumental effort to make contact with people and a sense of not wanting others to see you in a state of sadness.
What could you do as the Opposite action?
Make the choice to actively reach out to a friend or loved one, even if it feels difficult. Try making a list of things you would like to talk about with them and remind yourself of how contact with this person often results in positive feelings. Another way to take opposite action would be to give support or express interest in others. Often times, when you give the very thing that you feel yourself needing, the result can be quite positive.
What is the Opposite of Anxious?
Confident
What is the Opposite action of Sadness?
Get active, reach out, DO something fun and enjoyable, Upbeat music E.C.T.
What is the Urge for Sadness?
Cry, isolate, listen to sad music, lay around and not do anything.
The emotion of anger can create physical sensations such as feeling hot, breathing rapidly, or noticing your heart racing. There are often accompanying thoughts to anger such as “I hate this” or “this has to stop.” Notice that anger fueling thoughts often carry a common theme of denying experiences or insisting that things must be different than they truly are. Anger can be constructive when it serves as a motivating force to take action to right a wrong or protect yourself from real threats. Anger can easily become manipulative when it results in feeling out of control, lashing out at others inappropriately, or turns into self-hatred.
What could you do to reach the Opposite action?
If you find yourself consumed by persistent or overwhelming anger, make the choice to apply opposite action to snuff out the burning flames of anger. You can make the choice to cultivate an attitude of calm and acceptance. Take a few slow deep breaths and allow yourself to settle into acceptance of what is. You can actively reduce your state of hyper-arousal by taking slow breaths, self-soothing, and thinking positive thoughts about others.
Doing this that you like doing can also work as an opposite action. Feeling angry and like to go the gym. Might be the best workout you've done. Listen to happy music. Play your favorite game or go for a nice nature walk.
What is the opposite of Love?
Hate
What is the Opposite action for Shame?
Share, connect
What is the Action Urge for Guilt?
Punish self, apologize excessively
Give me an Example from when you may have felt Angry but might have used an opposite action to help the situation?
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What is the Opposite of Tired?
Energetic
What is the Opposite Action for Guilt?
Make amends and move forward
What is the Urge for Anger?
Punch, hit, scream, cry, run, fight
Give me an example of when you have felt anxious and might have used an opposite action to help deal with the urges.
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