How It Works
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
The Emotion Racket is a tool for emotional identification/regulation, helping users pinpoint the specific emotions they are experiencing.
Enhances Emotional self-Awareness, by encouraging competitors to reflect on their emotional states, helping users recognize the intensity and complexity of their feelings.
Improves Emotional Communication: Assists in articulating emotions more accurately when communicating with one's Player's Box support system.
Aids Emotional Regulation, by helping individuals understand the root causes of their feelings while providing strategies to manage emotions effectively.
Promotes Emotional Intelligence, by enhancing one’s emotional vocabulary and understanding, encouraging empathy by helping individuals recognize and relate to the emotions of others.
How to use the FBTL Emotion Racket
Check-In Regularly, Using the Racket to regularly check in with yourself, especially during times of stress, change, or significant events.
Identify Emotions by Starting from the center with goal always the state of Flow and work outward to identify any counterproductive emotions.
Reflect on why you are feeling this way. Consider the situations or thoughts that may be triggering these emotions.
Communicate the identified emotions more effectively with others, especially within your core Player's Box relationships of coach, parent, or therapeutic professional
Regulate: Based on your reflections, develop strategies to manage and regulate your emotions. These could include any of the tools laid out in the Power of Daily Routines.