Managing Emotional Reactions

A Path Through the Jungle a psychological health and well-being program to develop robustness and resilience by Professor Steve Peters.On Quantum Leap book club. We are looking at stage two now. Stage two overall is about managing emotional reactions. Now if you’ve...

Manage your Chimp

In this section he outlines a 3 step approach to manage an emotional chimp. 1. Exercise the chimp And what he means by this is allowing the chimp to express some emotion. Allowing your emotions to be expressed constructively out loud can be helpful. 2. Box the chimp...

How to navigate your ‘chimp’

In the book ‘The path through the jungle’ by Steve Peters, he discusses how to navigate your ‘chimp’ – the emotional part of the brain that often takes us off track. The chimp is fear based and does all sorts of things that ultimately lead to suffering. Things like,...