Category: anxiety
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How to control your emotions
The answer Behind this question is the probable desire to prevent yourself from being emotionally triggered when you don’t want to be. To achieve you must first understand: You have a particular way of thinking and beliefs–a way of being. Because of your current state of beliefs and thinking, there are certain stimuli in this world that trigger…
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Why does it feel like we can’t control our emotions?
Another way to put this: Why does it feel like anxiety/negative emotions take over or just happens to us against our will? This post answers why emotions seem to take over us against our will with book excerpts from a psychotherapist named Frank Mosca and a best-selling emotional intelligence author we’ve studied named Barry Neil…
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Unpacking the Science: The Root Cause of Anxiety
Notice that you have the ability to label and describe things in real time. For example, if you see a movie you really like, you may say, “It was amazing” or “That was great.” If you watch something you dislike, you may label the movie as “bad” or something you wouldn’t watch again. Recognizing that…
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The Root Cause of Negative Emotions
It begins with a radical departure from everything we’ve been taught. Many of us have heard of the popular psychological model of stimulus-response. The dog barks, I get scared. My friend compliments me, I feel happy. This model has helped spawn a culture where we see our emotions and experiences as being caused by people…