- If we are experiencing intense pain that you can’t find relief from, and it won’t go away quickly.
- If we want to take damaging actions based on our emotions, but that action will only make things more difficult (for ourselves or others) in the long run.
- If we are in an overwhelming situations, but there are demands that we must meet.
- If we are extremely motivated or intensely (highly stressful, short-term) stimulated to resolve a problem that can’t be solved and settled immediately.
- If you feel too emotionally dysregulated to effectively use other skills that might help.
has the effect of rapidly changing your biological response patterns, and thereby causing a reduction in your emotional arousal.
TIP skills are easy to use and don’t require a lot of thinking. But will slow the biological response to a level that thinking effectively becomes possible. Once you are able to think productively, other skills may be applied.