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Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

You Can Change Everything Without Changing Your Circumstances

Emotional states often result from the brain's predictive construction, so internal stress can shift dramatically without changes in external circumstances.
fromBig Think
2 months ago

How our expectations shape what we see, hear, and feel

It can certainly feel like emotions happen to you. That they bubble up and cause you to do and say things, but that experience is an illusion that the brain creates. Not everybody has as much control as they might like, but everybody has a little more control than they think they do. When you're experiencing emotion or you're in an emotional state, what your brain is doing is telling itself a story about what is going on inside your body.
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