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5. How do I target my Problem Situation?
It’s important to recognize that there are always two parts to every problem – the stress emotion you are feeling and the real-life situation that is triggering it. For the Wellspring Method to be successful, you should target the life situation, and not your stress reaction. In order to clarify this further, describe your problem situation using the following sentence:
“I feel __(insert your stress emotion)__ when __(insert the difficult life situation that triggers your emotion)__.
E.g., "I feel frustrated when the kids won't cooperate”.
For the purposes of this method, The Problem Situation is the difficult life situation that you are facing, and not your stress reaction to the situation (i.e., not your stress emotions such as anxiety, frustration or sadness, not your maladaptive behaviors, not your physical symptoms, not your negative beliefs, etc). Basically, you are targeting the specific things (events, people, circumstances) that “push your buttons” or that “trigger your sensitive spots”.
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