Instructions for distancing: Close your eyes. Go back to the time and place of the emotional experience and see the scene in your mind’s eye. Now take a few steps back. Move away from the situation to a point where you can now watch the event unfold from a distance and see yourself in the event, the distant you. Now watch the experience unfold as if it were happening to the distant you all over again. Observe your distant self. As you continue to watch the situation unfold for your distant self, try to understand his [or her] feelings. Why did he [or she] have those feelings? What were the
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