Activity - 1The Lesson About Strong Emotions on pages 105-106 in the workbook surprised me in how analytically I reflected on the prompt questions. I often thought back to knowledge I had learned in psychology classes and then considered how I personally viewed what life experiences had taught me. It also made me realize that I could be helping my students understand their feelings better. I often practice empathetic listening but I could do better by telling empowering stories to those I find struggling. Another reflection to these prompt questions was the feeling of “out of body”. However, when experiencing these emotions in the moment it can be difficult to think about them rationally and why you are feeling what you are. In Chapter two, on pages 56-59, the book Onward speaks about practicing body scans when a strong emotion hits. It talks about how you can start checking your own non-verbal communications and practice understanding yourself better so that you can have a more positive body awareness and better responses to experiences that affect your emotions (Aguilar, 2018). This is a quality I would like to practice and become better at. Activity - 2The activity Problematic Core Beliefs, on pages 174-177, in the Onward workbook made me analyze how I'm often my own worst enemy for my mental state. I scored myself high on the lack of trust and self-sacrificingness problematic core beliefs. These core beliefs cause me to negatively think about issues that are often out of my control or to be unreasonably anxious in social situations. The self-sacrificing belief often overloads my workload. I continually say yes to others and then feel shame when I have let someone down because I had too much on my plate. Lack of trust belief stems from a past relationship experience of verbal and emotional abuse (Psychology classes in college helped me realize that I needed to get out of that poisonous relationship but the after effects still stick with me). I often feel overly anxious about fostering new peer friendships because I worry I’m not good enough or likable enough. Even with these pestering problematic core beliefs I do feel I am overtly optimistic. I found the end of Chapter three to be uplifting with its information on being optimistic and how doing so would assist with my problematic core beliefs. The bullet list from pages 91-92 in Onward were especially satisfying as I considered if I, myself, held the thoughts on enjoying the process and seeing everything as part of your journey, finding solutions to problems instead of constantly complaining, and avoiding negative people (Aguilar, 2018). Aguilar, E. (2018). The Onward Workbook: Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Aguilar, E. (2018). Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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