Awareness of our thoughts and emotions is the prerequisite to change them. People are mostly unaware of what is happening. They just get identified with their states of mind and let it control them.
Most people are strangers to themselves. Emotions are indicators. When we have unhealed/unreconciled hurts it has an effect that goes throughout our entire system.
Finally someone who explained the difference between feelings and emotions. The way I see it is Feelings are mental interpretations of our bodily emotions. So you can experience the emotion of Fear but have the feeling of dejection, failure, loss, terror, etc. Sharing from firsthand experience of healing myself and learning to regulate my emotions.
Love that. I also did a lot of Googling because I didn't understand the difference between feelings and emotions and after reading a bunch of different articles I came to that same conclusion. Feelings are stories of the ego and emotions are states of energy in your body.
@@joas162uhh you got it backwards.... feelings are the physical representation of an emotion . Why ? Because you can FEEL a feeling , or rather you can feel a sensation . But emotions are just labels or words used to describe physical sensation
@@joas162 lol you understand already . You just used the words wrong . you said “ feelings are stories of the ego and emotions are states of energy in you body” But emotions are the stories ,, and feelings are the energy .
1:40 Great variability in emotional lives 2:09 The illusion the brain creates 2:37 How emotions really work. The brain regulating body top down, body is sending sensory information to the brain but we don't experience sensory changes. We get a summary--what we feel. 3:30 Are feelings emotions? Sound analogy. The brain is telling you a story processing the world inside and outside you 4:33 Why is it important? The explanation is a tool not the answer. 4:50 Depression explained. 5:25 Part of managing your emotions is using them as a diagnostic not a diagnosis. 5:53 Your brain is making emotions. Using past experience to predict things that may not happen. Emotions are not happening to you. 6:02 Implications: You are an architect of your experience. It involves predicting differently than the recipe or story you carry. 6:40 You can't change your past but every new experience is an opportunity to change your present (not your past) 7:00 Just in the same way you exercise to be healthier you can cultivate new experiences. Learning is evidenced by new and different experiences. Practice. Practice. Practice to predict and act differently. 7:45 Not everybody has as much control as they might like. But everyone has more control than they think they do. 7:50 when you enter the world you are not wired. Other people wire that world. You are not responsible for it as a child or adolescent. 8:11 But as an adult...you can make decisions about what you experience; make choices about how you act. You either reinforce your predictions your brain makes or you change them. 8:40 We are the only one who can change them. We are caretakers of our experiences but the brain does what it does...based on our past. But you can practice making a new and different lifeworld.
Feelings are a response to the thoughts we choose to believe. Realizing that a thought has no power over you allows you to respond in an appropriate manner. We are held captive by our thoughts, but we also hold the key to freedom.
This was so so so insightful. I have experienced this. My job at times requires me to do field work often with very less sleep in between. To enable me to continue working, my brain tries to ignore the sensory information it recieves from the body when its fatigued. Eventually, that physical exhaustion takes the form of mental unrest. And by the time that period of intense field work gets over, I end up depressed, sad, develop unusally high levels of of hatred towards my job which I normally absolutely love and I begin to question my existence. I start finding everything pointless. With time I realised, that those unpleasant emotions are just a manifestation of my physical fatigue, which I had been avoiding to feel and acknowledge, as mental exhaustion and feelings of intense, unexplainable sadness, to be exact. I have noticed, after a good amount of rest, that get back to feeling normal and loving my life and my job. Thank you @bigthink for releasing such insightful videos featuring some of the most brilliant minds.
circadian rhythm disruptive activity body language hormonal imbalance results in resistance of waking function 4am sleep repression create feelings for negating interactions *dissatisfaction, depression, anger, diminished memory . Retreat.... The struggle is REAL my fellow Hue- man❤
She made a lot sense. And I believe, when you do experience emotions in regards to pain and suffering, you should just accept them, and not fight them, they will pass.
For me, it was great because it unrevealed, without a mess, the complexity of emotions. It opens the door to explore and wire new experiences as they are: unknown and unseen. We are constantly conditioned by systems, and just the communication with words represents many limitations. So, for me, a good approach could be 'To see, forgetting the names of the things we are looking at' - C. Monet.
Usually I am very skeptical of content along the lines of this video. However, I thought this was a very succinct and concise explanation and elaboration on the topic. Good stuff. Narratives are a grand part of the human experience, much of what we tell ourselves are only perceptions and not reality, meaning it can be changed through habituation and perspective. Thank you.
Barrett is the real shit. I'm skeptical too of a lot of psychology content, and I've read quite a few books that say contradictory things, but her book How Emotions Are Made was a standout to me and really cleared up the misconceptions absolutely flooding every aspect of life about how emotions work, and it has a bigger effect than people realize if everyone has wrong notions about how their brains and bodies work.
I am skeptical as well. I get the feeling she is missing something fundamentally. Emotions are energy in motion. Emotions exist they are not created or made.
I couldn’t agree more. As someone who comes from a dysfunctional family with a heavy load of traumatic baggage I used to be dramatic and emotionally reactive. I’ve tried many therapists like this lady and nothing worked, it only made me feel even more inadequate than I already was. That until I discovered aerial arts and my coach who guided me in how to channel all that propensity for drama and intensity into art. After 40 years of emotional chaos not only I can control my emotions now but I can also put them to good use.
The impression I got of what she was saying is that the choices we make now help create the emotions we will experience in the future. Also, maybe changing our reactions can be a way of being the architect, too.
This is a very good video. There is still though a lot we do not understand scientifically. Any talk about feelings and emotions needs to talk about trauma and how this can effect the brain. I have had multiple trauma and I have needed special training to help me get over it and it is still an ongoing process. When people are as good as this professor they all need to spend a great deal of time exchanging ideas - psychiatrists with psychologists with therapists. No one discipline has all the answers but the good thing is we are making progress in our understanding of these things. I would like to thank Lisa Felman Barrett for the inspiration she has given me and the important things she has taught me and reinforced in my mind.
Thank you for this. A 9 minute video that’s consumed several hours down the rabbit hole of seeking to understand and relate to in my experience. Wow, heavy duty for one who’s been living with misconceptions. She can’t be the only one with insight on this, I’m going to look further.
@@Solscapes. nobody is saying that people don't need emotional support or that individualism is a good thing - nor can you delude yourself into happiness. What is being said is that your body is a transducer and brain the controller. You have the ability to calibrate your equipment - whether you do that on your own or with help. It's more "gaslighty" to say that you cannot change than that you can.
@@Solscapes. The part where your brain cannot act or react to physical objects. You can get better without community support. It would be insane to believe otherwise.
Study the life of your parents, their parents and siblings and you will understand who you are a mirrored version of. And then learn to detach and become a wholesome version of yourself
We are nothing else than a living iteration of our ancestors, programed through their acting ever since we are born. Especially given the enormous growth of our brains in the first 3 years. To become your true you you need to understand the social web which you grew up in and which you are a living mirror of..
There are emotions that are fast and quick. Chemical reactions in the body. There are feelings which are a little longer. They are your interpretation of the emotions. They can set moods. And attitudes. Also once you have a mood you willfuly start generating thoughts and emotions that keep you in the mood. There both are fall under affect. They include emotions and moods. The brain wants to go into homeostasis though. What goes up, must come down. Not too high and not too low. This is why we tread between positive and negative thoughts. I'm trying to make sense of it. All I am not professional. We try to stay positive and happy all the time which is just not natural.
I think you are on the right track! as I understand Lisa Feldman Barrett "mood" is more of an underlying condition, which influences our affective niche - basically what we can and will feel at a given time and situation
Cheers, love the discussion. It's interesting to bring the duration of emotions or feelings into the discussion and would be cool to explore what role more instant reactions vs. longer duration emotions have in mood disorders and recovering from them.
This video is very interesting but it doesnt cover why we can still be "prisoners" of trauma that happened even before we had conscious memory (pre verbal trauma). Trauma is stored in the body, it's not just about how the conscious brain interprets it. Sometimes people are aware they're emotionally "overreacting", but they cant control it because they dont even know how or what happened. We've all heard about temporal memory loss, seeing red, etc.
You can answer your own question if you simply remove the word 'conscious' from the above phrase 'conscious brain'. She didn't limit it to the conscious brain, rather you seem to have interpreted it that way by adding that limitation. It is about how the brain (conscious, unconscious, preconscious) takes in and interprets both internal and external data.
The seeding part is really profound and if meddled with consciously with an intimate understanding of oneself, can change a person's life for the better.
I have been owned lately by my feelings and depressed and fatigued. Wow! This broke some ground for me. I have intuitively been doing things different. I have been learning and practicing recording a new tape. I have been pausing to breathe and relax instead of reacting. Thank you for helping me to keep on this track by confirming that these thoughts on how to get well aren't another waste of my time or energy.
I rarely comment nowadays, but I just had to respond to this one. This video is lifechanging. It gives so much perspective and balance to our human experience.
@JkennGG We experience the world through our senses, so in a way any distinction between what happens inside and outside the body is simply a matter of perception. And I think a healthy, balanced perception is a great tool to handle the hurdles life throws at you. Thank you for your reply, it made me rewatch the video :)
Yes emotions don't happen to you. You have experiences and you have feelings and emotions to me are like a release of all the experiences you have. Some people do not feel like others do. My mother had so much trauma in childhood that it made her not empathetic to other people's feelings. I was not allowed to express my emotions as a child being raised by her and learned to keep quiet because if I said or did anything she didn't like I would get raged on. I held my emotions in too long which led to a nervous breakdown eventually and had a hard time controlling my emotions after that. I was diagnosed as bi-polar but what the doctors never figure out was that my family were all narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. My mother still cannot under why when she does certain things that it hurts other people. She still gets upset when I get emotional and actually misinterprets emotions. This "World" we live in really does not allow for being too emotional. People go to work and you ask them how they are and they smile and say, "I'm good! How are you?" The stress of this world can be too much and it is very important to express your feelings and emotions are like a release. People can have a range of emotions both positive and negative. What I have learned is that the worst of the emotions stemmed from severe unresolved childhood trauma that I was not even aware of. Anger is a natural human emotion and children get angry as well as adults yet how we express that anger is extremely important. There are healthy ways to express anger other than ragging on people or being physically or verbally abusive. Stress in this world and health issues etc. can lead to painful emotions. It is all apart of the human experience. Healing has been a life long journey for me. I am a feeling person and would call myself an empath. People get their emotions stuck and it can lead to sickness. Holding your emotions in can even lead to cancer. So let it out I say! One of my favorite songs by MaDonna says it all, "Express Yourself, Don't Repress Yourself".
Emotions DO HAPPEN TO YOU because emotions begin with primal fear of death.....which is a paradox of recognizing the desire to live yet having ZERO skills or understanding to prepare for or prevent death. What you do with your fear....shows your evolution into the skill of loving
I was expecting her to mention Meditation as a tool for emotional regulation, maybe in a different video... To finally realize that all that we are is the awareness, the stillness behind thoughts and emotions, one can then become aware of the emotional triggers, and consciously process the emotion, identifying the source, the trauma, the trigger, without being it, and increasing the space between stimulous and reaction. Through practice, one can even untangle unprocessed trauma, or repressed emotions and free yourself from your own mind and it's conditioning.
The basis of her theory seems somewhat limited. Those familiar with the practice of meditation acknowledge that the brain is not in control and that energy is managed from other centres. We also accept that everything is everywhere all the time :-) Perhaps it was that looking outside of what is her known environment felt too challenging and she is therefore attempting to attract us into her version of things. Which is also part of what is.
@@andreawatts7884 I agree with you, and I would say that she’s looking at it from a very academic and professional perspective (Psychology Professor), but, she indeed does not mention that, there’s an ever present stillness, a silence, that can only be heard once the mind is silenced, then, what you hear is the universe, and it’s in that moment that one merge with creation and become the universe itself, the conscious presence, thoughtless and emotionless, and, it’s possible for everyone, all it takes is to quiet the mind and listen. It’s a beautiful thing! To me, that’s who we really are, beyond culture, beliefs, and the traumas that conditions us until we become aware of them. We are all one!
@@jsgc13 I feel aligned with the awareness behind your comments and yet experience what is differently, as neither still nor without expression. I experience it as fullness, plenitude and abundance. And it seems to me that this is what we are all born from and at the same time within which we are forever lovingly held. And in our desire to leave it may only ensnare ourselves. So yes, we are all one :-) 🕊
This was helpful thank you. It helps to remember I'm the architect of my experience. Also, absolutely incredible music in this episode esp the violin in the last 1/4 of the video!
Makes sense. I am recently finding it useful to reflect on my current experience of feeling OK whenever possible. (whatever I am doing) I think its retraining my brain and in the context of this video, giving my brain possibilities for new predictions.
"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Body keeps the score of traumas ….emotional traumas are harder to heal as people get triggered from smell, a type of noise or anything else that takes you back . The behavioral FBI unit are great in recognizing people’s behavioral patterns as a typically taught patterns …. and repetitive taught creates emotions or feelings .
This is factually incorrect and exactly why Dr. Barrett wrote the book How Emotions are Made. The body does not keep the score. The brain keeps the score. I love Van der Kolk, but it's still factually incorrect. The brain is simply making predictions based on previous experiences - if you smelled something when feeling threatened, the brain is predicting that the threat might happen again based on prior experience, not held emotion within the body.
Just beautiful, thanks for this kind of information I appreciate all the efforts done behind the scene to get this kind of content out there, keep doing it, thank you.
Very very interesting. The only thing I would add, is that there is a lot of talk in the video about what ‘the brain’ thinks and believes, but scientifically we don’t know yet if that is accurate. We know about how the brain is involved chemically and electrically, and we are still learning more about that, but we don’t actually know if the brain itself ‘thinks’ or ‘believes’. The brain could also turn out to be the tool of something we have not yet discovered, for example, and we could currently be studying the result of that in the physical workings of the brain. Time and research will eventually tell us how this actually works, but until we do we will need truly open minds (not open brains ;-), especially among scientists.
@7:54 I’m not sure I agree with this. What about intergenerational trauma? Or foetus’ who are effected by maternal stress. There are neurodevelopmental disorders which can begin to develop through genetics, and are linked to emotional dysregulation. So this doesn’t really cover all neurodivergent individuals, only neurotypical individuals
I honestly don't even want to watch the video as it's probably gonna be unrelatable and make me angry. I personally am trans and being on the wrong hormones for most of my life made my emotional experience something I didn't feel like fitting me, and I didn't experience those emotions subsiding in a way people told me they would. I now seem to slowly be getting a more normal emotional experience, and it's really different. But not everyone experiences things that way.
What happens on the environment - > received by the senses and the body - > signals the brain - > brain interprets based on past experiences and knowledge and acts accordingly - > release hormones - > emotions created
What I loved: It seemed to go in a scientific direction which could mean having to depend on medication to treat the alleged deficiencies in your body, making you feel a certain way. It didn't. It's still perspective and open mindedness that can change not only your outlook, but your physical systems significantly too. You are what you think.
I was very skeptical of the thoughts presents at first her conclusions made everything clear. I’m inspired to creat new emotions for myself and I understand the path I must take to do it. Thank you!
"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
I am sure to understand everything but trauma seems to be missing in this comprehension of the present emotions. Without healing these emotions from the past, it is very difficult to understand our present emotions.
It seems to me by what Dr Barrett is saying is that if you want to change how you respond to the present moment, you have to change how your brain interprets the past events. I can understand that responding differently to things than you’re used to will also forge change, but you can’t repress emotion. It’s just not some thing that can be done. You have to process something that you still have emotion around before you can see it differently, and you have to reconstruct your memory about it based on your new understanding having processed it. So if you want to change your future, you have to change the present moment, and if you want to change how you’re seeing the present moment, you have to change how you see the past.
Yes, but in addition to that, if you experience different inputs (purposefully or by happenstance), you add to your database called 'the past'. This then becomes a part of what your brain draws upon to interpret ongoing experiences.
@@TenTenJ The feelings were in response to past inputs (in that sense, they are a 'rational' response to those past experiences). When you take in new inputs, your feelings modify in accordance with those new inputs. The real challenge is in persuading yourself to have those new experiences - those new inputs. Sometimes that can happen without your choice, but sometimes it takes initiative and energy - like for example, choosing to have a positive experience when in a funk, or opening yourself to others when feeling self-protective and antisocial.
Never been to universiy.But love always when someone,crazy more inteligent than me,with lots of research behind.DECADES.Sums it up.Anda I learn.Her ted talks,wished to post the link.was mind blowing.Just love to have a little insight of the brain.Thank you so much Doctor Lisa Fieldman Barret.
Emotions are automatic, whereas feelings can be chosen and willfully overlaid on top of those automatic emotions to help regulate them. It's definitely a practice, and much easier said than done-but not impossible.
Exactly! I've long felt that emotions are your mind's way of summarizing an incredibly complex array of percepts. Of course this was mere deduction on my part, using the assumptions that they must be manufactured for a purpose of some kind, and that that purpose must play an evolutionarily significant role. In other words, it was a (I hope) not unintelligent guess. But so wonderful to have it confirmed by Ms. Feldman Barrett!
Consciously, emotions happen to you, and that’s what you is, consciousnesses. This was very enlightening. Thanks. I had actually never really thought about it wondered about the neurobiological reality of emotions.
The statement "emotions aren't something that happens to you" depends completely on a person's concept of "you". Of course emotions are created by my body, and by my brain. But when I think of what "me" actually is, I'm often thinking of my conscious mind. My internal monologue. That is "me". And from the perspective of that "me", emotions are something happening to it. That doesn't mean I have no control. I can indirectly control it if needed. If I need to calm down, my conscious mind ("me") can make a conscious decision to stop and breath deeply and slowly, which will cause my body to change what chemicals it sends to the brain... and that will change my emotional state.
The statement "emotions aren't something that happens to you" means that it's not like a lightning bolt that just randomly hits you out of nowhere. Your perception and past experiences dictate how you are going to feel about certain things, which means your emotions are reliably predictable. If you get annoyed when someone chews loudly while eating, it shouldn't come as a surprise, if you get annoyed by it again in the future. In other words, emotions aren't just something that happens to you, because you are the architect of those experiences based on perceptions and past experiences of how you view and navigate the world.
and yet consider all of the times you try to calm down or not say, feel act in a certain way but do so anyway despite often focussed attempts not to do so - the idea that 'we' have control over something so unfathomably complex when we are barely aware of most things seems a silly simplification - I sense her next book with join the millions of other pointless self help garbage we see everywhere.
@@futures2247 the chances of you having control over a certain emotion in the heat of the moment is low, but what you can do is gradually change your perception of why you felt a specific way about a given event, and thereby change how you are going to feel and experience it in the future
@@Kat1lz if only we had that much control over things - perhaps this sort of thing might be possible for the most mundane of experiences but for where it really matters I don't think so. If it were a simple matter of gradually changing perception, presumably through the myriad offerings from the therapy and psychology industries we'd be swimming in a sea of calm and peace by now. There is such unfathomable complexity in life and living it and we have but a fraction of awareness about any of it - as Lisa said at the start, there is no agreement on what an emotion even is, so how she can then go on to speak in such certain terms about the most complex object in the known universe should raise a healthy scepticism.
@@futures2247 I think it starts by accepting that you are in fact in charge of your own ship. If you don't think you can sail through the storm then you are right, and if you think you can then you are also right. I think some people enjoy things being unknown or as you put it "unfathomably complex", but I'd argue that it comes from a stand point of not wanting the responsibilities of any unaccepted behaviour or action. It's easier to simply relinquish control and say "I couldn't control it" or "what was I supposed to do". From the perspective of evolutionary biology, it's not nearly as complex as you make it sound. The human body and brain are surprisingly mechanistic, like a larger and more complex factory, whose whole objective is to simply keep you alive. And it learned evolutionarily, that it could gain sympathy or empathy in given circumstances, if it could simply feign control and say "I couldn't control it".
I always figured that emotions and feelings are just labels that our brain gives us each label being the hormones the brain secretes that make it either possible to cope with the outside influences or not. I know that this is true becuase of all the experiences I have and seeing the difference when for example it was BEFORE my first menstruation and also how my brain handed out hormones AFTER I surgically removed my uterus, not my overies, but no more periods made my exampleS of emotions much more controllable and more comfortable. So I liked what you said.. but something tells me that all the researching IN ALL OF YOUR YEARS YOU STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OTHERS GO THROUGH IN A LIFE FULL OF PAIN AND ANGUISH, YOU ARE A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN WHO HAS NOT HAD THE ISSUES THAT I HAVE, SO PERHAPS YOU LABEL IT HOW YOUD IMAGINE IT BEING. YOU CANT TAKE OTHERS STORIES AND FEEL THEM FOR YOURSELF THE SAME. DEPRESSION IS VERY MUCH IN MY PAST AND IT IS ONLY MY OWN LESSONS THAT MAKE LIFE 'DOABLE' TODAY.
"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Epictetus has a perfect quote for this "we must figure out in life what we have some control over and what we do not have control over and learn to put your focus on things inside your control" with practice you can definitely control your emotions but you will never be able to control every circumstance that happen to you.
We can change the present to help mold our future experiences. How should I mold my experiences? What is my goal? Next is the existencial crisis and a desire to let go of that control and then in a month or so I will be back to this video.
I agree to this explanation completely… and made some ‘wrong’ decisions. History is repeating itself and not only to me. Compassion with people who aren’t able to retrieve memories from their past is key. The mind is a trickster sometimes.
Wow. I've believed for decades that emotions addicts reward with use of an addictive substance (incl alcohol) effects which emotions thet feel during withdrawal symptoms . Ex: Angry drunk drinks to calm themselves. vs happy drunk goes dancing or to parties and other fun drinking events vs functional alcoholics who reward themselves for a job well done vs sad drunks listen to "cry in your beer" music and drink when they feel unappreciated/unloved, Etc.. Your info helps me understand the orchestration of perceptions, emotions, and actions in the context of accidentally training the "addict" about which types of "tantrums" will feed it the chemicals it wants. Ty.
Wow, that music was beautiful! Wait, what did she say? Dang it! Even on that rare occasion when I LIKE the musical choices made for accompaniment of these talks, I STILL just wish you'd leave it off or at least reduce the volume by half or more.
Emotions arent real. The way I started dealing with emotions was to use my ego to control them. In my desire to not wanting to be controlled by others I started to realize if I react emotionally to anything that someone else does I basically become their puppet. Now my life is pretty much a seek and destroy method of being controlled by things outside myself. It doesnt work all the time but every day week month year, gets better and i find little bits of self control along the way.
Life is a journey. Emotions and thoughts are involved as we speak, before we speak. I never left the hospital after I was born....until I was rescued a month later. I am 74 now and still counting. LOVE. PEACE. God Bless.
I listen to her and second time and then I thought what was her message??? With her 30 years of experience on emotions ! She seems to have given us very dry cognitive interpretation of emotions. 9 minutes of speech and losing the message. Where is the myth busters! Is it whole brain or just hippocampus or amygdala? Is it mind body or body mind. Mind automatism based on past? Please try again and redo video. Thx
"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
And she lost me by suggesting lifestyle changes.. it's been suggested that i have adhd, ocd and autism by now... And the very things i the heck can't do are: keeping friendships, building and keeping routines and making improvements on my learning routine in particular.. All this mixed with occasional depressive reactions (which show symptoms of clinically mediocre depression but only for four hours ~ two days), rare panic attacks and huge private problems.. that's basically the shit i've to deal with. Plus, i'm fairly intelligent and it's hard to find like-minded people even within times with minimal struggles. And in regards to experiences and memories, it is harder to aim for friendships, because i basically know too little about things that aren't struggles.. Good luck with fixing all that with therapy😐, i would say to my therapist..
I'm also ADHD and probably autistic, and big parts of my life I didn't relate to the model of CBT where it's like thoughts and behaviours driving feelings. I've come to the conclusion that I gotta do what works for me, hone my own intuition what works for my body and mind, and let people just be in their experiences different than mine.
Anyone familiar with the 12 step program Emotions Anonymous. I recently attended my first Zoom and was a little put off hearing people say they are powerless over their emotions. I’m still figuring out what I think about that. Thoughts?
@@ratelhoneybadger I absolutely know we can control our responses to the emotions we experience, but having an emotional response to something seems intrinsic in some way, and not “chosen”. 🤷🏼♀️
The feeling of powerless is important to acknowledge at first. As the program says, "the first step is admit you have a problem." A good AA community then should be able to help an individual then come to understand that amazing human paradox that we simultaneously need to take ownership of our actions and need help from others, especially help from a "higher power." You need to understand that whatever your higher power is, the point is that you must acknowledge that you cannot control this whole universe, you cannot bend or break the will of others. You can only control yourself and learn to adapt to everything else.
This is amazing how cognitive, sensation & perception science, neurology, and psychology are getting to the point of saying very similar things as St. John of the Cross, Aquinas, and the Church Father's say about thoughts and emotions: about how brain and body work together, feeding each other information about the material world and past memories (and spiritual information being sensed by the soul and contributing to this process, but of course that's more metaphysics/theology territory), forming a den of personal and social stories that we may call the mind and personality. Those early Christian theologians (and I hear that Hindu and Buddhist gurus have tapped into similar observations despite differences between the cultural lenses of the East and the West) had the help of Hellenism, Plato, and Aristotle to give them the foundational language and framework to study this phenomenon. However, some of those theologians, religious leaders, psychologists and lay people fall into the trap of Stoicism in making erroneous conclusions and myths about the mind, emotions, and mental health as discussed in the video, leading to dismissing the issues people experience and coming up with inappropriate or downright ineffective or unethical treatments. I hope there will be scientists and philosophers who can work together to help dispel those misconceptions.
Correct me If I am wrong, emotions is a physiological responses to events experienced in everyday life. On the other hand, feeling are an interpretation of those physiological responses. Emotions are internal, while feelings are external. .
I would respond to this lovely video - I agree and I disagree😁 There is so much truth in this, however, there is so much more. The complexity of how our mind, brain and body works together with environmental factors and processes of the experience (such as trauma - emotional and physical), is a great dance that takes much more then a simple neuroplasticity of the brain. Very often acceptance (that, for example, we have automatic responses that cannot be simply changed but instead, we have power to accept triggers and learn to react differently with not always a success) is crucial in the whole process towards healing and balance that we aim for.
The note the video left on inspired an interesting thought. I suppose most have heard the cliche of "with power comes responsibility", but maybe the opposite is then also true. Maybe with responsibility comes power.
It is helpful to be aware of our body's physiological processes to recognize the domino effect they can trigger and know how to intervene to achieve the best possible outcomes for our emotional well-being.
Emotion is energy in motion. Intense negative emotions all stem from fear. If you take a look at why you are mad as an example, dissect your emotion and there is an underlying fear there. Positive emotions are of Love. All emotions need to come and go. Change is the only constant and how we react is all we are in control of.
Wow what a great speech. Just one thing is wrong. Emotions are not an illusion. They are resonating energies that we create and carry on within each other. We just haven't been able to measure it yet except with all the psychological facts that were just mentioned.
This is very comprehensive and modern way to look at emotions as a summary of body signals and past experiences, with new information gathering in this ever changing world , if we aware , we can update our belief hence a better prediction. Emotions are just here to give you certain information.
Does anyone else hear Joe Dispenza when she is talking? Yet his methods are considered Pseudoscience, as he explains in depth the same thing. His book, "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself" or "Becoming Supernatural" both go into great detail explaining this. I love it. Finally, a distinguished professor can get some screen time to say what a chiropractic has been saying for a decade or more. In addition, NLP which is also considered Pseudoscience has methods to create new context for past memories FAR quicker than psychotherapy, paradoxically by modeling the best psychologists and therapists and yet it's not talked about enough. Thanks for making this video. I'll share.
Awareness of our thoughts and emotions is the prerequisite to change them. People are mostly unaware of what is happening. They just get identified with their states of mind and let it control them.
I'm a vipassana practitioner too. 😉
and meditate on ahimsa
A lot of things are just like magic tricks just knowing how they work takes all their power away
Yeah, most/many don't even believe you can disassociate (or shall we rather say disentangle) from your emotions and thoughts. If only they knew...
Most people are strangers to themselves. Emotions are indicators. When we have unhealed/unreconciled hurts it has an effect that goes throughout our entire system.
Finally someone who explained the difference between feelings and emotions. The way I see it is Feelings are mental interpretations of our bodily emotions. So you can experience the emotion of Fear but have the feeling of dejection, failure, loss, terror, etc. Sharing from firsthand experience of healing myself and learning to regulate my emotions.
Love that. I also did a lot of Googling because I didn't understand the difference between feelings and emotions and after reading a bunch of different articles I came to that same conclusion. Feelings are stories of the ego and emotions are states of energy in your body.
@@joas162uhh you got it backwards.... feelings are the physical representation of an emotion . Why ? Because you can FEEL a feeling , or rather you can feel a sensation . But emotions are just labels or words used to describe physical sensation
Thanks for putting this together
@@devonnotdevin9998 I feel confused now ?.?
@@joas162 lol you understand already . You just used the words wrong . you said “ feelings are stories of the ego and emotions are states of energy in you body”
But emotions are the stories ,, and feelings are the energy .
"Uses these new experiences to predict differently in the future ... For you to act differently in the future."
Oh man, that's huge for me!
"Everybody has a little more control than what they think they do"❤
1:40 Great variability in emotional lives
2:09 The illusion the brain creates
2:37 How emotions really work. The brain regulating body top down, body is sending sensory information to the brain but we don't experience sensory changes. We get a summary--what we feel.
3:30 Are feelings emotions? Sound analogy. The brain is telling you a story processing the world inside and outside you
4:33 Why is it important? The explanation is a tool not the answer.
4:50 Depression explained.
5:25 Part of managing your emotions is using them as a diagnostic not a diagnosis.
5:53 Your brain is making emotions. Using past experience to predict things that may not happen. Emotions are not happening to you.
6:02 Implications: You are an architect of your experience. It involves predicting differently than the recipe or story you carry.
6:40 You can't change your past but every new experience is an opportunity to change your present (not your past)
7:00 Just in the same way you exercise to be healthier you can cultivate new experiences. Learning is evidenced by new and different experiences. Practice. Practice. Practice to predict and act differently.
7:45 Not everybody has as much control as they might like. But everyone has more control than they think they do.
7:50 when you enter the world you are not wired. Other people wire that world. You are not responsible for it as a child or adolescent. 8:11 But as an adult...you can make decisions about what you experience; make choices about how you act. You either reinforce your predictions your brain makes or you change them.
8:40 We are the only one who can change them. We are caretakers of our experiences but the brain does what it does...based on our past. But you can practice making a new and different lifeworld.
Thank you @kyraociyy for taking the time to make this info accessible to all!! May you be blessed!
Feelings are a response to the thoughts we choose to believe. Realizing that a thought has no power over you allows you to respond in an appropriate manner. We are held captive by our thoughts, but we also hold the key to freedom.
This was so so so insightful. I have experienced this. My job at times requires me to do field work often with very less sleep in between. To enable me to continue working, my brain tries to ignore the sensory information it recieves from the body when its fatigued. Eventually, that physical exhaustion takes the form of mental unrest. And by the time that period of intense field work gets over, I end up depressed, sad, develop unusally high levels of of hatred towards my job which I normally absolutely love and I begin to question my existence. I start finding everything pointless. With time I realised, that those unpleasant emotions are just a manifestation of my physical fatigue, which I had been avoiding to feel and acknowledge, as mental exhaustion and feelings of intense, unexplainable sadness, to be exact. I have noticed, after a good amount of rest, that get back to feeling normal and loving my life and my job. Thank you @bigthink for releasing such insightful videos featuring some of the most brilliant minds.
circadian rhythm disruptive activity body language hormonal imbalance results in resistance of waking function 4am sleep repression create feelings for negating interactions *dissatisfaction, depression, anger, diminished memory . Retreat.... The struggle is REAL my fellow Hue- man❤
> My job at times requires me to do field work often with very less sleep in between.
Another example of environ-mental-illness. Not mental-illness.
@@rabbitcreative gonna be be using that ty
She made a lot sense. And I believe, when you do experience emotions in regards to pain and suffering, you should just accept them, and not fight them, they will pass.
For me, it was great because it unrevealed, without a mess, the complexity of emotions. It opens the door to explore and wire new experiences as they are: unknown and unseen. We are constantly conditioned by systems, and just the communication with words represents many limitations. So, for me, a good approach could be 'To see, forgetting the names of the things we are looking at' - C. Monet.
Usually I am very skeptical of content along the lines of this video. However, I thought this was a very succinct and concise explanation and elaboration on the topic. Good stuff. Narratives are a grand part of the human experience, much of what we tell ourselves are only perceptions and not reality, meaning it can be changed through habituation and perspective. Thank you.
Barrett is the real shit. I'm skeptical too of a lot of psychology content, and I've read quite a few books that say contradictory things, but her book How Emotions Are Made was a standout to me and really cleared up the misconceptions absolutely flooding every aspect of life about how emotions work, and it has a bigger effect than people realize if everyone has wrong notions about how their brains and bodies work.
Mmmmm I didn't really like it. It sounds like pseudo science to me.
@@jorgejorge8878 You need only test the hypothesis
Only philosophers can attempt to discuss psychology .
I am skeptical as well. I get the feeling she is missing something fundamentally. Emotions are energy in motion. Emotions exist they are not created or made.
I’d argue you’re more the surfer of your emotions not the architect. We can’t control our emotions, but we can control how we react to them.
I couldn’t agree more. As someone who comes from a dysfunctional family with a heavy load of traumatic baggage I used to be dramatic and emotionally reactive. I’ve tried many therapists like this lady and nothing worked, it only made me feel even more inadequate than I already was. That until I discovered aerial arts and my coach who guided me in how to channel all that propensity for drama and intensity into art. After 40 years of emotional chaos not only I can control my emotions now but I can also put them to good use.
No we can't control them. We really can't. Only choose how to act or not based on what we know at any given moment in time.
The impression I got of what she was saying is that the choices we make now help create the emotions we will experience in the future. Also, maybe changing our reactions can be a way of being the architect, too.
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We can learn how to process emotions, not contra them, we control how we treat to them, and out thoughts. Easier said than done tho.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change..
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This is a very good video. There is still though a lot we do not understand scientifically. Any talk about feelings and emotions needs to talk about trauma and how this can effect the brain. I have had multiple trauma and I have needed special training to help me get over it and it is still an ongoing process. When people are as good as this professor they all need to spend a great deal of time exchanging ideas - psychiatrists with psychologists with therapists. No one discipline has all the answers but the good thing is we are making progress in our understanding of these things. I would like to thank Lisa Felman Barrett for the inspiration she has given me and the important things she has taught me and reinforced in my mind.
much recommend both her books - How Emotions Are Made & Seven and a Half Lessons About The Brain - two of my most favourite books I've ever read
Good to hear, thanks for sharing!
Yess! Great to see another Lisa Fan 😁
Thank you for this. A 9 minute video that’s consumed several hours down the rabbit hole of seeking to understand and relate to in my experience. Wow, heavy duty for one who’s been living with misconceptions. She can’t be the only one with insight on this, I’m going to look further.
Have you seen the Sapolsky lectures? They may help....
You may also read Sapolsky's Behave
This is great. The explanation is clear and the video is entertaining. I like the editing and b-roll selection. Thank you for this.
Cheers, so glad you liked it!
FWIW, you can find Lisa Feldman Barrett's research at www.affective-science.org/publications.shtml
@@Solscapes. your brain is an interpreter of reality. You can have a good or bad reaction to the same event and that's on you.
@@Solscapes. nobody is saying that people don't need emotional support or that individualism is a good thing - nor can you delude yourself into happiness. What is being said is that your body is a transducer and brain the controller. You have the ability to calibrate your equipment - whether you do that on your own or with help.
It's more "gaslighty" to say that you cannot change than that you can.
@@Solscapes. The part where your brain cannot act or react to physical objects.
You can get better without community support. It would be insane to believe otherwise.
Study the life of your parents, their parents and siblings and you will understand who you are a mirrored version of. And then learn to detach and become a wholesome version of yourself
Can you Elaborate
We are nothing else than a living iteration of our ancestors, programed through their acting ever since we are born. Especially given the enormous growth of our brains in the first 3 years. To become your true you you need to understand the social web which you grew up in and which you are a living mirror of..
There are emotions that are fast and quick. Chemical reactions in the body. There are feelings which are a little longer. They are your interpretation of the emotions. They can set moods. And attitudes. Also once you have a mood you willfuly start generating thoughts and emotions that keep you in the mood. There both are fall under affect. They include emotions and moods.
The brain wants to go into homeostasis though. What goes up, must come down. Not too high and not too low. This is why we tread between positive and negative thoughts. I'm trying to make sense of it. All I am not professional. We try to stay positive and happy all the time which is just not natural.
I think you are on the right track! as I understand Lisa Feldman Barrett "mood" is more of an underlying condition, which influences our affective niche - basically what we can and will feel at a given time and situation
Cheers, love the discussion. It's interesting to bring the duration of emotions or feelings into the discussion and would be cool to explore what role more instant reactions vs. longer duration emotions have in mood disorders and recovering from them.
yeah, being positive all the time, can lead to burn out
This video is very interesting but it doesnt cover why we can still be "prisoners" of trauma that happened even before we had conscious memory (pre verbal trauma). Trauma is stored in the body, it's not just about how the conscious brain interprets it. Sometimes people are aware they're emotionally "overreacting", but they cant control it because they dont even know how or what happened. We've all heard about temporal memory loss, seeing red, etc.
You can answer your own question if you simply remove the word 'conscious' from the above phrase 'conscious brain'. She didn't limit it to the conscious brain, rather you seem to have interpreted it that way by adding that limitation. It is about how the brain (conscious, unconscious, preconscious) takes in and interprets both internal and external data.
The seeding part is really profound and if meddled with consciously with an intimate understanding of oneself, can change a person's life for the better.
I have been owned lately by my feelings and depressed and fatigued. Wow! This broke some ground for me. I have intuitively been doing things different. I have been learning and practicing recording a new tape. I have been pausing to breathe and relax instead of reacting. Thank you for helping me to keep on this track by confirming that these thoughts on how to get well aren't another waste of my time or energy.
We're so happy to hear this! Thanks for watching and for sharing your perspective :)
I rarely comment nowadays, but I just had to respond to this one.
This video is lifechanging. It gives so much perspective and balance to our human experience.
How so?
@JkennGG
We experience the world through our senses, so in a way any distinction between what happens inside and outside the body is simply a matter of perception. And I think a healthy, balanced perception is a great tool to handle the hurdles life throws at you.
Thank you for your reply, it made me rewatch the video :)
@@kreshnov Absolutely, thanks for the detailed reply!
Yes emotions don't happen to you. You have experiences and you have feelings and emotions to me are like a release of all the experiences you have. Some people do not feel like others do. My mother had so much trauma in childhood that it made her not empathetic to other people's feelings. I was not allowed to express my emotions as a child being raised by her and learned to keep quiet because if I said or did anything she didn't like I would get raged on. I held my emotions in too long which led to a nervous breakdown eventually and had a hard time controlling my emotions after that. I was diagnosed as bi-polar but what the doctors never figure out was that my family were all narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. My mother still cannot under why when she does certain things that it hurts other people. She still gets upset when I get emotional and actually misinterprets emotions. This "World" we live in really does not allow for being too emotional. People go to work and you ask them how they are and they smile and say, "I'm good! How are you?" The stress of this world can be too much and it is very important to express your feelings and emotions are like a release. People can have a range of emotions both positive and negative. What I have learned is that the worst of the emotions stemmed from severe unresolved childhood trauma that I was not even aware of. Anger is a natural human emotion and children get angry as well as adults yet how we express that anger is extremely important. There are healthy ways to express anger other than ragging on people or being physically or verbally abusive. Stress in this world and health issues etc. can lead to painful emotions. It is all apart of the human experience. Healing has been a life long journey for me. I am a feeling person and would call myself an empath. People get their emotions stuck and it can lead to sickness. Holding your emotions in can even lead to cancer. So let it out I say! One of my favorite songs by MaDonna says it all, "Express Yourself, Don't Repress Yourself".
Emotions DO HAPPEN TO YOU because emotions begin with primal fear of death.....which is a paradox of recognizing the desire to live yet having ZERO skills or understanding to prepare for or prevent death. What you do with your fear....shows your evolution into the skill of loving
Looking forward to her book.
I hope theres a audio version and that she narrates it. She has a pleasant voice.
I was expecting her to mention Meditation as a tool for emotional regulation, maybe in a different video... To finally realize that all that we are is the awareness, the stillness behind thoughts and emotions, one can then become aware of the emotional triggers, and consciously process the emotion, identifying the source, the trauma, the trigger, without being it, and increasing the space between stimulous and reaction. Through practice, one can even untangle unprocessed trauma, or repressed emotions and free yourself from your own mind and it's conditioning.
Insightful, that you mention meditation or I would say mindfulness. She mentions none of that, mindfulness/meditation, in her book.
I would listen to her.
The basis of her theory seems somewhat limited. Those familiar with the practice of meditation acknowledge that the brain is not in control and that energy is managed from other centres. We also accept that everything is everywhere all the time :-)
Perhaps it was that looking outside of what is her known environment felt too challenging and she is therefore attempting to attract us into her version of things. Which is also part of what is.
@@andreawatts7884 I agree with you, and I would say that she’s looking at it from a very academic and professional perspective (Psychology Professor), but, she indeed does not mention that, there’s an ever present stillness, a silence, that can only be heard once the mind is silenced, then, what you hear is the universe, and it’s in that moment that one merge with creation and become the universe itself, the conscious presence, thoughtless and emotionless, and, it’s possible for everyone, all it takes is to quiet the mind and listen. It’s a beautiful thing!
To me, that’s who we really are, beyond culture, beliefs, and the traumas that conditions us until we become aware of them. We are all one!
@@jsgc13 I feel aligned with the awareness behind your comments and yet experience what is differently, as neither still nor without expression. I experience it as fullness, plenitude and abundance. And it seems to me that this is what we are all born from and at the same time within which we are forever lovingly held. And in our desire to leave it may only ensnare ourselves. So yes, we are all one :-) 🕊
I love this woman. She´s so confident and smart.
We totally agree! If you're interested, we have a few more videos with her in this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL_B7bI1QVmJCM2YvLifL2dqparLFu2HrS.html
This was so STINKIN inspiring! What a woman this lady is
What a scientist!
Yeah, she's not just some schmuck.
How so?
This was helpful thank you. It helps to remember I'm the architect of my experience. Also, absolutely incredible music in this episode esp the violin in the last 1/4 of the video!
Makes sense. I am recently finding it useful to reflect on my current experience of feeling OK whenever possible. (whatever I am doing) I think its retraining my brain and in the context of this video, giving my brain possibilities for new predictions.
Thank you. I’ve been somewhat doing this process and you just gave a very beautiful way of explaining it.
Really wonderful.
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Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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Thank you for this.
Body keeps the score of traumas ….emotional traumas are harder to heal as people get triggered from smell, a type of noise or anything else that takes you back . The behavioral FBI unit are great in recognizing people’s behavioral patterns as a typically taught patterns …. and repetitive taught creates emotions or feelings .
This is factually incorrect and exactly why Dr. Barrett wrote the book How Emotions are Made. The body does not keep the score. The brain keeps the score. I love Van der Kolk, but it's still factually incorrect. The brain is simply making predictions based on previous experiences - if you smelled something when feeling threatened, the brain is predicting that the threat might happen again based on prior experience, not held emotion within the body.
Just beautiful, thanks for this kind of information I appreciate all the efforts done behind the scene to get this kind of content out there, keep doing it, thank you.
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Very very interesting. The only thing I would add, is that there is a lot of talk in the video about what ‘the brain’ thinks and believes, but scientifically we don’t know yet if that is accurate. We know about how the brain is involved chemically and electrically, and we are still learning more about that, but we don’t actually know if the brain itself ‘thinks’ or ‘believes’. The brain could also turn out to be the tool of something we have not yet discovered, for example, and we could currently be studying the result of that in the physical workings of the brain. Time and research will eventually tell us how this actually works, but until we do we will need truly open minds (not open brains ;-), especially among scientists.
@7:54 I’m not sure I agree with this. What about intergenerational trauma? Or foetus’ who are effected by maternal stress. There are neurodevelopmental disorders which can begin to develop through genetics, and are linked to emotional dysregulation. So this doesn’t really cover all neurodivergent individuals, only neurotypical individuals
I honestly don't even want to watch the video as it's probably gonna be unrelatable and make me angry. I personally am trans and being on the wrong hormones for most of my life made my emotional experience something I didn't feel like fitting me, and I didn't experience those emotions subsiding in a way people told me they would. I now seem to slowly be getting a more normal emotional experience, and it's really different. But not everyone experiences things that way.
Thank you. Truly. I needed this.
Cheers, so glad you found it!
What happens on the environment - > received by the senses and the body - > signals the brain - > brain interprets based on past experiences and knowledge and acts accordingly - > release hormones - > emotions created
Perfect. No words to describe how good and important this lecture was to me.
Wow! I needed this so badly...
So nice. Impeccable to be exact. Thank you💙🙏
What I loved:
It seemed to go in a scientific direction which could mean having to depend on medication to treat the alleged deficiencies in your body, making you feel a certain way. It didn't. It's still perspective and open mindedness that can change not only your outlook, but your physical systems significantly too. You are what you think.
So how do you explain the emotion of ecstasy when listening to beautiful music ?
This was an excellent explanation of emotions and feelings. Very well done.🎉
We're so happy you liked it! 😊 Thanks for being here!
Brilliant! This information is very helpful and comforting. Great job!
Just brilliant! Thank you for the content 🙏
Fabulous! So much clarity and so well put.
Wonderfully informative and helpful. Thank you !
Thank you Doc your words really helped. This world is a much prosperous place with you in it.❤😊
Interesting and helpful. Free of BS mumbo jumbo. This talk have some deep truth and guidance in it. Thank you.
I was very skeptical of the thoughts presents at first her conclusions made everything clear. I’m inspired to creat new emotions for myself and I understand the path I must take to do it. Thank you!
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
I am sure to understand everything but trauma seems to be missing in this comprehension of the present emotions. Without healing these emotions from the past, it is very difficult to understand our present emotions.
It seems to me by what Dr Barrett is saying is that if you want to change how you respond to the present moment, you have to change how your brain interprets the past events. I can understand that responding differently to things than you’re used to will also forge change, but you can’t repress emotion. It’s just not some thing that can be done. You have to process something that you still have emotion around before you can see it differently, and you have to reconstruct your memory about it based on your new understanding having processed it. So if you want to change your future, you have to change the present moment, and if you want to change how you’re seeing the present moment, you have to change how you see the past.
This is such an insightful interpretation, thank you for sharing!
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Yes, but in addition to that, if you experience different inputs (purposefully or by happenstance), you add to your database called 'the past'. This then becomes a part of what your brain draws upon to interpret ongoing experiences.
@@MM-Iconoclast I would say, as long as you can get past your feelings to take in those different new inputs.
@@TenTenJ The feelings were in response to past inputs (in that sense, they are a 'rational' response to those past experiences). When you take in new inputs, your feelings modify in accordance with those new inputs. The real challenge is in persuading yourself to have those new experiences - those new inputs. Sometimes that can happen without your choice, but sometimes it takes initiative and energy - like for example, choosing to have a positive experience when in a funk, or opening yourself to others when feeling self-protective and antisocial.
Never been to universiy.But love always when someone,crazy more inteligent than me,with lots of research behind.DECADES.Sums it up.Anda I learn.Her ted talks,wished to post the link.was mind blowing.Just love to have a little insight of the brain.Thank you so much Doctor Lisa Fieldman Barret.
Emotions are automatic, whereas feelings can be chosen and willfully overlaid on top of those automatic emotions to help regulate them. It's definitely a practice, and much easier said than done-but not impossible.
Exactly! I've long felt that emotions are your mind's way of summarizing an incredibly complex array of percepts. Of course this was mere deduction on my part, using the assumptions that they must be manufactured for a purpose of some kind, and that that purpose must play an evolutionarily significant role.
In other words, it was a (I hope) not unintelligent guess. But so wonderful to have it confirmed by Ms. Feldman Barrett!
Consciously, emotions happen to you, and that’s what you is, consciousnesses. This was very enlightening. Thanks. I had actually never really thought about it wondered about the neurobiological reality of emotions.
well, I don't know if emotions happen "to you" - they just happen and it's up to you what you make of them
This is at the same time the explanation that makes most sense for thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and perhaps the most elusive one.
The statement "emotions aren't something that happens to you" depends completely on a person's concept of "you".
Of course emotions are created by my body, and by my brain. But when I think of what "me" actually is, I'm often thinking of my conscious mind. My internal monologue. That is "me". And from the perspective of that "me", emotions are something happening to it.
That doesn't mean I have no control. I can indirectly control it if needed. If I need to calm down, my conscious mind ("me") can make a conscious decision to stop and breath deeply and slowly, which will cause my body to change what chemicals it sends to the brain... and that will change my emotional state.
The statement "emotions aren't something that happens to you" means that it's not like a lightning bolt that just randomly hits you out of nowhere. Your perception and past experiences dictate how you are going to feel about certain things, which means your emotions are reliably predictable. If you get annoyed when someone chews loudly while eating, it shouldn't come as a surprise, if you get annoyed by it again in the future. In other words, emotions aren't just something that happens to you, because you are the architect of those experiences based on perceptions and past experiences of how you view and navigate the world.
and yet consider all of the times you try to calm down or not say, feel act in a certain way but do so anyway despite often focussed attempts not to do so - the idea that 'we' have control over something so unfathomably complex when we are barely aware of most things seems a silly simplification - I sense her next book with join the millions of other pointless self help garbage we see everywhere.
@@futures2247 the chances of you having control over a certain emotion in the heat of the moment is low, but what you can do is gradually change your perception of why you felt a specific way about a given event, and thereby change how you are going to feel and experience it in the future
@@Kat1lz if only we had that much control over things - perhaps this sort of thing might be possible for the most mundane of experiences but for where it really matters I don't think so. If it were a simple matter of gradually changing perception, presumably through the myriad offerings from the therapy and psychology industries we'd be swimming in a sea of calm and peace by now.
There is such unfathomable complexity in life and living it and we have but a fraction of awareness about any of it - as Lisa said at the start, there is no agreement on what an emotion even is, so how she can then go on to speak in such certain terms about the most complex object in the known universe should raise a healthy scepticism.
@@futures2247 I think it starts by accepting that you are in fact in charge of your own ship. If you don't think you can sail through the storm then you are right, and if you think you can then you are also right.
I think some people enjoy things being unknown or as you put it "unfathomably complex", but I'd argue that it comes from a stand point of not wanting the responsibilities of any unaccepted behaviour or action. It's easier to simply relinquish control and say "I couldn't control it" or "what was I supposed to do".
From the perspective of evolutionary biology, it's not nearly as complex as you make it sound. The human body and brain are surprisingly mechanistic, like a larger and more complex factory, whose whole objective is to simply keep you alive. And it learned evolutionarily, that it could gain sympathy or empathy in given circumstances, if it could simply feign control and say "I couldn't control it".
I always figured that emotions and feelings are just labels that our brain gives us each label being the hormones the brain secretes that make it either possible to cope with the outside influences or not. I know that this is true becuase of all the experiences I have and seeing the difference when for example it was BEFORE my first menstruation and also how my brain handed out hormones AFTER I surgically removed my uterus, not my overies, but no more periods made my exampleS of emotions much more controllable and more comfortable. So I liked what you said.. but something tells me that all the researching IN ALL OF YOUR YEARS YOU STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OTHERS GO THROUGH IN A LIFE FULL OF PAIN AND ANGUISH, YOU ARE A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN WHO HAS NOT HAD THE ISSUES THAT I HAVE, SO PERHAPS YOU LABEL IT HOW YOUD IMAGINE IT BEING. YOU CANT TAKE OTHERS STORIES AND FEEL THEM FOR YOURSELF THE SAME. DEPRESSION IS VERY MUCH IN MY PAST AND IT IS ONLY MY OWN LESSONS THAT MAKE LIFE 'DOABLE' TODAY.
What a great presentation! I emotionally came away from this video. Feeling pretty excited about my future. Thank you. ❤️
The last few minute of this video is such good information! Thank you. Sometimes I forget that I do have control!
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You are so welcome! Glad you liked it.
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
7:20 'new experiences ...that would require you to get outside the normal range of what your brain would predict'
Epictetus has a perfect quote for this "we must figure out in life what we have some control over and what we do not have control over and learn to put your focus on things inside your control" with practice you can definitely control your emotions but you will never be able to control every circumstance that happen to you.
We can change the present to help mold our future experiences. How should I mold my experiences? What is my goal? Next is the existencial crisis and a desire to let go of that control and then in a month or so I will be back to this video.
I agree to this explanation completely… and made some ‘wrong’ decisions. History is repeating itself and not only to me. Compassion with people who aren’t able to retrieve memories from their past is key. The mind is a trickster sometimes.
This video is so empowering and useful for me. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
this knowledge is one of the best
Wow. I've believed for decades that emotions addicts reward with use of an addictive substance (incl alcohol) effects which emotions thet feel during withdrawal symptoms .
Ex: Angry drunk drinks to calm themselves. vs happy drunk goes dancing or to parties and other fun drinking events vs functional alcoholics who reward themselves for a job well done vs sad drunks listen to "cry in your beer" music and drink when they feel unappreciated/unloved, Etc.. Your info helps me understand the orchestration of perceptions, emotions, and actions in the context of accidentally training the "addict" about which types of "tantrums" will feed it the chemicals it wants. Ty.
PTSD is different than being emotional.
Wow, that music was beautiful! Wait, what did she say? Dang it! Even on that rare occasion when I LIKE the musical choices made for accompaniment of these talks, I STILL just wish you'd leave it off or at least reduce the volume by half or more.
Emotions arent real. The way I started dealing with emotions was to use my ego to control them. In my desire to not wanting to be controlled by others I started to realize if I react emotionally to anything that someone else does I basically become their puppet. Now my life is pretty much a seek and destroy method of being controlled by things outside myself. It doesnt work all the time but every day week month year, gets better and i find little bits of self control along the way.
Life is a journey. Emotions and thoughts are involved as we speak, before we speak. I never left the hospital after I was born....until I was rescued a month later. I am 74 now and still counting. LOVE. PEACE. God Bless.
No I think we can all agree that emotions are definitely feelings that happen to us at times, and sometimes it's the wrong ones at the wrong times
I listen to her and second time and then I thought what was her message??? With her 30 years of experience on emotions ! She seems to have given us very dry cognitive interpretation of emotions. 9 minutes of speech and losing the message. Where is the myth busters! Is it whole brain or just hippocampus or amygdala? Is it mind body or body mind. Mind automatism based on past?
Please try again and redo video. Thx
Feeling is a sense. Like seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,... Emotions like thoughts are a separate thing. You see thoughts. You feel emotions.
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
Emotions are something that I chose to experience or not.
I am the master of my emotions ! Not the slave of them..😊
Emotion is expressed energetically.
Thank you for making so interesting scientific content 👍
It makes me feel sometimes "the normal life" like it was before
Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
And she lost me by suggesting lifestyle changes.. it's been suggested that i have adhd, ocd and autism by now...
And the very things i the heck can't do are: keeping friendships, building and keeping routines and making improvements on my learning routine in particular..
All this mixed with occasional depressive reactions (which show symptoms of clinically mediocre depression but only for four hours ~ two days), rare panic attacks and huge private problems..
that's basically the shit i've to deal with.
Plus, i'm fairly intelligent and it's hard to find like-minded people even within times with minimal struggles.
And in regards to experiences and memories, it is harder to aim for friendships, because i basically know too little about things that aren't struggles..
Good luck with fixing all that with therapy😐, i would say to my therapist..
I'm also ADHD and probably autistic, and big parts of my life I didn't relate to the model of CBT where it's like thoughts and behaviours driving feelings.
I've come to the conclusion that I gotta do what works for me, hone my own intuition what works for my body and mind, and let people just be in their experiences different than mine.
This was helpful. Thanks. Knight 7
Anyone familiar with the 12 step program Emotions Anonymous. I recently attended my first Zoom and was a little put off hearing people say they are powerless over their emotions. I’m still figuring out what I think about that. Thoughts?
You are DEFINITELY not powerless over your emotions. They take learning about the human machine to understand them.
And manage them!
@@ratelhoneybadger I absolutely know we can control our responses to the emotions we experience, but having an emotional response to something seems intrinsic in some way, and not “chosen”. 🤷🏼♀️
The feeling of powerless is important to acknowledge at first. As the program says, "the first step is admit you have a problem." A good AA community then should be able to help an individual then come to understand that amazing human paradox that we simultaneously need to take ownership of our actions and need help from others, especially help from a "higher power." You need to understand that whatever your higher power is, the point is that you must acknowledge that you cannot control this whole universe, you cannot bend or break the will of others. You can only control yourself and learn to adapt to everything else.
This is amazing how cognitive, sensation & perception science, neurology, and psychology are getting to the point of saying very similar things as St. John of the Cross, Aquinas, and the Church Father's say about thoughts and emotions: about how brain and body work together, feeding each other information about the material world and past memories (and spiritual information being sensed by the soul and contributing to this process, but of course that's more metaphysics/theology territory), forming a den of personal and social stories that we may call the mind and personality.
Those early Christian theologians (and I hear that Hindu and Buddhist gurus have tapped into similar observations despite differences between the cultural lenses of the East and the West) had the help of Hellenism, Plato, and Aristotle to give them the foundational language and framework to study this phenomenon. However, some of those theologians, religious leaders, psychologists and lay people fall into the trap of Stoicism in making erroneous conclusions and myths about the mind, emotions, and mental health as discussed in the video, leading to dismissing the issues people experience and coming up with inappropriate or downright ineffective or unethical treatments. I hope there will be scientists and philosophers who can work together to help dispel those misconceptions.
Brilliant lecture. Thank you. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for being here!
Pretty useful information! Thanks!
Correct me If I am wrong, emotions is a physiological responses to events experienced in everyday life. On the other hand, feeling are an interpretation of those physiological responses. Emotions are internal, while feelings are external.
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Very refreshing. Thanks for the lesson.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The best motivation speech backed by science, even thought it was not meant to be motivational speech!
Thanks
And please the background music is loud 6:25 - 7:45 couldn't focus
I just literally read her book for my psychology class, thx for making a video! 🎉
Social media is messing with this ability so much that it is insane to ponder.
I would respond to this lovely video - I agree and I disagree😁 There is so much truth in this, however, there is so much more. The complexity of how our mind, brain and body works together with environmental factors and processes of the experience (such as trauma - emotional and physical), is a great dance that takes much more then a simple neuroplasticity of the brain. Very often acceptance (that, for example, we have automatic responses that cannot be simply changed but instead, we have power to accept triggers and learn to react differently with not always a success) is crucial in the whole process towards healing and balance that we aim for.
The note the video left on inspired an interesting thought. I suppose most have heard the cliche of "with power comes responsibility", but maybe the opposite is then also true. Maybe with responsibility comes power.
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It is helpful to be aware of our body's physiological processes to recognize the domino effect they can trigger and know how to intervene to achieve the best possible outcomes for our emotional well-being.
Emotion is energy in motion.
Intense negative emotions all stem from fear. If you take a look at why you are mad as an example, dissect your emotion and there is an underlying fear there.
Positive emotions are of Love.
All emotions need to come and go. Change is the only constant and how we react is all we are in control of.
Hey what’s the name of the audio used during 5.15
Wow what a great speech. Just one thing is wrong. Emotions are not an illusion. They are resonating energies that we create and carry on within each other. We just haven't been able to measure it yet except with all the psychological facts that were just mentioned.
heartening and strengthening.
This is very comprehensive and modern way to look at emotions as a summary of body signals and past experiences, with new information gathering in this ever changing world , if we aware , we can update our belief hence a better prediction. Emotions are just here to give you certain information.
“Not everybody has as much control as they might like, but everybody has a little more control that they think they do.” 7:11 - 7:53
Does anyone else hear Joe Dispenza when she is talking? Yet his methods are considered Pseudoscience, as he explains in depth the same thing. His book, "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself" or "Becoming Supernatural" both go into great detail explaining this. I love it. Finally, a distinguished professor can get some screen time to say what a chiropractic has been saying for a decade or more. In addition, NLP which is also considered Pseudoscience has methods to create new context for past memories FAR quicker than psychotherapy, paradoxically by modeling the best psychologists and therapists and yet it's not talked about enough. Thanks for making this video. I'll share.