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.This does make sense.
How am I going to feel about that next week? ” Another possibility, “When in the midst of an emotional experience, turn the volume down.Things could be worse.” Then there’s the shifting language possibility.“When in another language, it doesn’t have the same effect as when in the native language,” said Kross.“It’s the foreign language effect.” This may be yet another reason to take those Silbo Gomero language classes that you’ve always been wanting to take.
Yes, helping each other can establish a good culture, which brings us to one more type of shifter: culture shifters.“Culture is the air we breathe,” said Kross.“If it is all around us, we consume a culture that is promoting certain emotional states.” He described how the prevailing culture in a social circle or organization will have norms that reinforce certain values and belief.
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