While it is important to understand how to regulate emotions when they arise, it's also important to learn how to create life practices that reduce your vulnerability to intense emotions in the first place.
Learn how to increase positive emotions in the short term. Part of the DBT Skills ABC PLEASE.
Learn how to create positive emotions in the long term by understanding your values and working towards goals based on your values.
Learn to develop goals and increase likelihood of achieving those goals.
Learn the DBT Skills of Building Mastery and Coping Ahead. Build competence by doing things to increase mastery. Learn to cope ahead for difficult situations to be able to be prepared to act effectively.