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    The speaker argues that emotional health is as important as physical health but often neglected. Psychological problems like loneliness, failure, and rejection can have serious health effects, but we are never taught how to treat emotional injuries. The speaker advocates practicing emotional hygiene through strategies like prioritizing psychological health, fighting feelings of helplessness, reviving self-esteem, using distractions from negative thoughts, and becoming more informed on building emotional resilience.

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    The speaker argues that emotional health is as important as physical health but often neglected. Psychological problems like loneliness, failure, and rejection can have serious health effects, but we are never taught how to treat emotional injuries. The speaker advocates practicing emotional hygiene through strategies like prioritizing psychological health, fighting feelings of helplessness, reviving self-esteem, using distractions from negative thoughts, and becoming more informed on building emotional resilience.

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    Why We All Need to Practice Emotional

    First Aid
    http://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_the_case_for_emotional_hygien
    e 17 min.

    A. Pre-viewing discussion
    1. What do you think emotional first aid is?
    2. When do we need to practice emotional first aid? How can we do it?
    3. Who do you think the speaker is?

    B. Watch the first 3.30 min of a TED talk and answer the questions:
    1. How does he explain the need for emotional health? ______________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________

    2. He talks about physical favoritism – what does he mean?


    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________

    C. Watch from 3.30 min till 11 min. Take notes in the following table:

    Psychological
    Effects Solutions
    Problem
    D. Watch till the end and fill in the table

    Psychological
    Effects Solutions
    Problem

    Conclusion/summary:

    E. What is the main idea of the talk?


    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________________________
    Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid - KEY
    http://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_the_case_for_emotional_hygiene 17 min.

    A. Pre-viewing discussion
    1. What do you think emotional first aid is?
    2. When do we need to practice emotional first aid? How can we do it?
    3. Who do you think the speaker is?

    B. Watch the first 3.30 min of a TED talk and answer the questions:
    1. How does he explain the need for emotional health? As important as physical health but
    very neglected, we get emotionally hurt much more often than physically hurt, but neglect it,
    we are never taught what to do
    2. He talks about physical favoritism – what does he mean?
    We favor our physical body in everything

    C. Watch from 3.30 min till 11 min. Take notes in the following table:

    Psychological
    Effects Solutions
    Problem
    loneliness Increases chances of an early death prioritize our psychological
    by 14%, increases blood health,  practice emotional hygiene.
    pressure/cholesterol, weakens the
    immune system (as serious as
    cigarette smoking)

    failure Believe you cannot do it, feel Fight feeling of helplessness, gain
    helpless, stop trying, function control over the situation, break
    below your potential, the mind is the negative cycle
    hard to change once set

    D. Watch till the end and fill in the table

    Psychological
    Effects Solutions
    Problem
    rejection We make the injury worse with our Revive yourself-esteem, treat
    self-talk, Makes us vulnerable to yourself as a good friend will,
    stress protect your self-esteem
    Rumination/negative The focus on negative thoughts can Distractions - force yourself to
    thinking lead to depression, alcoholism, concentrate on something else
    eating disorders, cardio-vascular
    disease

    - Take action when lonely


    Conclusion/summary: - Change response to failure
    - Protect self-esteem
    - battle negative thinking
    become informed, change a few simple habits
    If you build emotional resilience, your quality of life will rise

    4. What is the main idea of the talk?


    Emotional injuries can have serious consequences so we all need to practice emotional first
    aid.

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