一边说着“我没事”一边内心崩溃？其实情绪可以被掌控

最近有个新闻视频挺火的，一位小哥骑车被交警拦下，本来以为就罚个款嘛几分钟的事，没想到他很淡定地接完一个电话后开始向交警跪下咆哮大哭……

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It may feel to you like your emotions are hardwired and they just trigger and happen to you, but they don't. You might believe that your brain is prewired with emotion circuits, that you're born with emotion circuits, but you're not. 

In fact, none of us has emotion circuits in our brain. In fact, no brain on this planet contains emotion circuits. 

Emotions are guesses. 

They are guesses that your brain constructs in the moment where billions of brain cells are working together, and you have more control over those guesses than you might imagine that you do. 

So your brain is constructing the image of a snake where there is no snake, and this kind of a hallucination is what neuroscientists call "predictions." Predictions are basically the way your brain works. 

Your brain is predicting. It's using past experience based on similar situations to try to make meaning. 

And so the lesson here is that emotions which seem to happen to you are actually made by you. 

You are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits.

You have more control over your emotions than you think you do. 

If you can change the ingredients that your brain uses to make emotion, then you can transform your emotional life. 

So the next time when you feel intense distress, ask yourself: Could this have a purely physical cause? Is it possible that you can transform emotional suffering into just mere physical discomfort? 

Only YOU are culpable for your emotions.

The actions and the experiences that you make today will become your brain's predictions for tomorrow. 

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