Originally Published: October 30th, 2024

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I believe every person should know and practice Dialectical Behaviour Therapy’s (DBT) four core life skills:

• Mindfulness
• Distress Tolerance
• Emotional Regulation
• Interpersonal Effectiveness

If every person in the world took a pause, a breath and was mindful of the moment this would help reduce suffering and increase happiness.

If everyone understood their own levels of distress tolerance, they would not make a crisis situation worse.

If everyone knew how to pause, regulate their emotions and be skillful before they act, this would decrease emotional suffering.

If everyone understood interpersonal effectiveness skills, walking a middle path, while building effective relationships and ending destructive ones, this would decrease emotional suffering.

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DBT skills help reduce suffering and increase happiness, to be skillful in your life.

Then, you can take a breath, live in today – today is a gift – that is why it is called the present.

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As Master Oogway says,

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the “present.”

Let today be a gift for you…

S, 🌻

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