How can you assert your boundaries and respond to negativity?

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AVAlexander VolchekAVAnna VolchekBoundaries, expectations, and the right to be yourselfLove, help, and rescuing othersF/Friend / friendsLove

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Dealing with negativity: the basic problem
• 02:50“Encountering a bear”: the body's automatic reactions to aggression
• 03:55The main task in learning to deal with negativity
• 07:46Balance in any environment: the same inner state
• 09:13Stop changing the other person and learn to be in the situation (Step 1)
• 09:44Reactions to negativity: fear for yourself / empathy for others
• 10:50Why shouting triggers us: social norms and habits
• 11:40What to do if your boss shouts
• 13:19Understand why someone is being negative (Step 2)
• 17:13Be honest about your own influence: where I create a trigger
• 17:50How to respond when someone shouts at you without cause
• 18:59“Direct love”: the central state when facing aggression (Step 3)
• 22:03Truly living through stressful situations
• 23:09Negativity vs. feedback: how to tell the difference
• 26:22The key to dealing with negativity
• 27:17The trap of dividing people up

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• 02:53

  Look, if a person enters that state, it is important to understand that, fundamentally, they are not prepared for it. Not prepared, not prepared.

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• 05:56

  To truly learn to catch these situations properly, the first thing you need to do, the first thing you need to tell yourself, is to stop wanting other people to behave differently and learn to be in that situation.

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• 12:48

  I absolutely agree that there are different situations, but here, in this conversation, it is fundamentally important to see what is really happening.

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• 13:43

  Always, absolutely always, one hundred percent, you need to understand why the other person is doing it.

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• 14:19

  She is shouting at them because she has lost control. It is her outburst, an outpouring of her sense of importance and significance that she wants to convey to everyone.

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• 16:31

  But if people say that to me during a meeting, when I have this enormous, endless flow—say, fourteen hours of meetings.

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• 17:20

  That is why it is very important always to understand exactly why a person reacts that way.

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• 20:33

  But we will not go into that area now, because directing attention, love...

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• 23:09

  —or a state of stress. This is the only state, the situation that allows you to arrive at a balanced, normal perception of the other person and understand what really needs to be done at that moment.

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• 25:46

  That someone, a teacher, for example, has given it their attention. Or you can get angry and think, “Why are you talking about me at all, telling someone else about me and this situation?”

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