Emotional regulation or Emotion Self-regulation or Emotions management – involves
controlling or redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing
circumstances. Emotional relaxation - a state of deep rest that is the polar opposite of the stress
response. The relaxation response puts the brakes on stress and brings body and mind back into
a state of equilibrium.
Flow - a positive state of the body during activities. During flow, people typically
experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi‘s famous investigations of "optimal experience" revealed that what makes an
experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow.
