Creating space.

 

创造空间。

 

The first and most important step to being free from the grip of fear in a frightening situation is to create somespace between ourselves and the emotion of fear.

 

第一步也是最重要的一步是在一个恐怖的情形下摆脱恐惧的魔爪，在我们本身与恐惧这个情感的中间创造出空间。

 

This isn't accomplished by ignoring thefear, or trying to talk ourselves out of it.

 

这不仅仅只靠忽视恐惧或者试图说服自己逃离它而实现的。

 

Space is created automatically when wehonestly acknowledge that fear is present by mentally naming the emotion,"There is fear."

 

当我们诚实地承认恐惧的存在：“这是恐惧”，空间就自动地被创造出来了。

 

In fact, research at UCLA shows that bysimply naming an emotion we actually begin to reverse the "fight orflight" response in the body.

 

事实上，UCLA的一项研究显示，承认一种情感会让我们开始扭转“战斗还是逃跑”的生理反应。