For rejection-sensitive "Bill" (featured in Chapter 12), an especially…

For rejection-sensitive "Bill" (featured in Chapter 12), an especially troubling situation that triggered his anger was when he felt his wife focused on the newspaper rather than on him at breakfast. He could practice implementation plans for this scenario so that when she turned to the headlines, he automatically activated a cooling strategy to self-distract, such as silently counting down from 100 until he had calmed enough to inhibit the destructive outburst he was about to have.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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