A new book from Ethan Kross, PhD, covers different ways to shift your emotional responses to triggers such as attention, perspective, space, people and culture shifters.
There are the good manageable emotions like the love you feel when you see your significant other or a piece of avocado toast. Then there are the really difficult to manage emotions such as the rage you feel when someone takes your piece of avocado toast. A prevailing belief is that you only have two options in dealing with such baddy emotions: either confront them head on immediately or avoid them so that they come out later in some unexpected Anakin Skywalker-Hulk-Carrie type of way.
Kross mentioned how diverting or distracting yourself here and there from dealing with the emotion can be a useful strategy as long as we eventually get back to dealing with it. “Where we point our attention can powerfully drive or diminish our emotions,” he said. “Sometimes we need to go back and forth before the problem is gone.
Therefore, you can change how you are feeling by changing the types of sensory inputs you are receiving. Say, for example, the Hanson song “MMMBop” really speaks to who you are. Then playing that song can help you feel more whole. Kross cautioned that the effects “tend to be fleeting,” though. There are only so many times you can keep playing MMMBop on loop. Plus, “sensory shifters can be potent, so potent that people can use this tool to detriment,” Kross warned.
In other words, will talking to others help you let go of negative emotions or instead cause you to dwell even more on the inciting problems? The latter issue is a common problem with talking about politics, where a constant cycle of complaints never leads to much action. Therefore, as Kross urged, “Determine who in your network is a good emotional advisor. Who will first listen and empathize, and then work with you to broaden your perspective.
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