In some ways I think that's what practice is :). There have been some things that I wasn't very good at--e.g. speaking Spanish--but through practice and getting better and better results, I enjoyed it a lot more. I predicted and achieved better outcomes from the people I was talking to.
@katherenewedic8076 You're 100% correct. I've learned to control my emotional reactions to situations with a combination of learning how and why childhood adversities effect my limbic system and by practicing meditation and breathing exercises to stay in a calm state. The longer I've done this the easier it is to notice a potentially upsetting situation is occurring and stay calm. But the key is knowing the root cause. ✌️🇨🇦
What she's saying is that emotions are concepts we learn that the brain then applies automatically based on signals from your body and environment. But if we relearn those concepts in a real way, we can change how we experience emotions.
And do it over and over and over and over in different contexts and repeat and repeat and repeat. It's not just relearning, you have to dilute the old lessons to the point where they no longer have any influence.
How does one account for culmination of stimulae drawn by the brain, dilute them to no influence, felt from different parts of the body and stack in what... a void?
Have you seen her inspiring Ted talk? Can the architecture bring a person to a state where one has no use of its power and an idle observer who is sadistic?
@@robertdouglas8895 earthly stardom? The fate of being born underlings? Why aren't greats ever born in stoicism? Is EQ versus numbness similar? Of them is it a high class or royalty of death and sleeplessness?
How does someone trapped in a delusion , architect thier experience, ? Which means your statement translates to "I'm alright jack screw you" nice attitude
I'm intrigued by the idea that we can essentially rewrite our emotional scripts by consciously altering our experiences. It's like DIY neuroplasticity!
I would argue this has been the purpose of religion throughout our history. That and as a catalyst for the creation of civilizations. Fascinating stuff that ancient people knew essentially what this modern scientist has determined after decades of scientific experimentation.
I'm a psychologist and watching this video reminded me again why I love my career so much. They way emotions and feelings aren't the same and how we react from past experiences it's such an eye opener to anyone that wants to undertand more about this topic. I'm beyond grateful and happy I found this video because it's so good. Thank you!
@-XtraCredit- Honestly, it is scary but psychologists need help too to release that baggage. Still, I always recommend therapy, it's as necessary asgoing to the doctor.
This is also what makes trauma difficult because the traumatic experience triggers systems that send off survival stress signals, which gets everything caught into a self-perpetuating feedback loop that gets difficult to break. This is also why the things that can alleviate trauma can be identical to what will exacerbate trauma, and the only difference is the stability of the environment in which that occurs because of the removal of stress allows the individual to rewrite and overwrite those emotions without the stress response taking over, whereas that occurring in an uncontrolled environment reinforce that pattern further. Related is that this is also what makes neglect difficult because there's an active lack of stimulus to help create a differentiation to allow your brain to change the pattern of experience. That's why isolation and loneliness have a significant psychological and physical health impact that's difficult to overcome without external assistance to help first break that pattern, especially once it hits a point of learned helplessness.
That’s a good description of ptsd syndrome complex or otherwise, it’s a real bastard death loop. Yeah mdma is a powerful drug to combat it, pity it can’t be legally prescribed 😢
❤ Pierre I don't usually comment on people's comments' but yours is a knock-out (yeah, you really nailed it). You speak as someone who understands trauma (and its affects) deeply, and have as a result come to a deeper, more compassionate understanding of the human condition. More so, than the [typical] clinician, academic or philosopher. I salute you.
Imaginary emotions in an imaginary world you mean If I torture you and send you around bend emotionally and thus force you to create a delusion that you escape into forever Then "How emotions are made" becomes utter nonsense Hence why they believe they know things these Abrahamic scientists And they actually know nothing at all and still cant help a person out of a delusion
“The best way to change the past is to change your present.” As someone who always have to know the “why,” Dr. Barrett has enlightened my perspective on why “finding new hobbies” or “putting your eggs in different baskets” matter. There’s always something that we can be good at… and there’s always kind and positive people out there! To enjoying life! 🎉
"Sometimes in life, we are responsible for changing things, not because we're culpable or to blame for those things, but because we're the only ones who can change them. And that can feel unfair, and it is unfair, in a certain way. But it's also helpful because it means that you always have tools available at your disposal to heal yourself, to act differently, and to feel differently." I quote here, because it's invaluable and helpful advice for me, and it's so true in my experiences actually!
I highly recommend her Ted Talk. Her explanations and visuals were perfect in explaining how what our bodies are feeling leads to the emotions we're (likely) going to feel.
The thing about being emotions a recap or a translation of what's happening to you physically is so true. For years I will turn randomly "depress". For a lot of time it made sense as I was not in the best of situation. But when life started to get better, I started to see those "random" feelings where out of place. Short story: I finally did the connection and I notice it happens one week before my period. It sound obvious now. But back in the time people were only telling me "girls get so difficult when the are having the period". So I have to re educate myself, not only about periods, but about the feelings it creates. One I got it I never felt "randomly depressed " again
My interpretation of her theory is that emotions are like habits. They are formed by past experiences, probably heavily influenced by your upbringing. But you can change emotions(habits) by becoming more aware of them and providing yourself with other kinds of experiences.
I'm deeply impressed by Lisa Feldman Barrett's video on "How Emotions Work." She has helped me gain a better understanding of how the mind and emotions operate in our everyday lives. She is truly an outstanding speaker, and the content is very intriguing. Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge!
One of my all time favorite scientists and speakers. Her work on emotions and overall helping to dismantle false understandings about the brain has been groundbreaking. Understanding that police actually see guns when they are not there because their brains create the illusion of such is a revolutionary truth! Thank you Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett for not being afraid to speak truth to power!🙏🏾🔥✊🏾
Socially feelings matter. But from the outside looking in, emotions do not matter, what behaviors those emotions produce is what matters. So if someone or a group of people have responses that are counter-productive or destructive, the search should be to find why they respond that way while others do not. Everyone gets happy and sad, learning about what those feelings turn into and why is where great minds should be looking.
and guess what? it's even worse for the society itself condemns being aware or learn about the cause and being in the opposite side of it is exhausting as it's very rare lonely position with little to no help in such of the society.
@@yurishaa.9337 Yes, with the way things are today, it is hard being different. In an extroverted world, being aware and thoughtful is sadly often a weakness instead of a great strength
@@doellison it's no longer even extroverted world, it's becoming the world of fake-introversion gullibility. It's ironically easy to lead people who posess attention span equal to goldfish added with wokeness whatever. Harder to make connections because everyone fixated on their demise-leading distractions, lacking common sense, and focused on the meaningless things your normal extroverts 10 years ago could just scratch their heads on. Being aware and thoughtful? you see they got literally stoned (cancelled) by these folks, and the majority of introverts ...y'all just go into hermitage already before we eventually follow.
i wish i watched such content 3 years ago, my life and the turn of events would have been different. but its true that only we can act differently than past to change our perceptions and forget the past that imprisons our identity. it's always in our hands, if not before, but now, that we are aware.
In brief, the brain is fed from our experiences in order to regulate the body in any situation, decision making etc. Give it the best experiences you can get ! Don't let life just happen to you and you will change your present and future.
Peace is where you notice the white noise without trying to. There’s a German word; waldensamkiet which translates to the feeling of being alone in the woods and for me this sums it up. I tried rationalising my feelings but I found it much more conducive to expand my emotional vocabulary because I was just scribbling over myself in thoughts until I was able to express myself more aptly to the point that I don’t need to express what I already know for myself. The modern English vocabulary has become overtly technical and so I find other languages are quite helpful. I’d hazard a guess that you’re sentimental to have such a focus on your thoughts and feelings and so I would suggest ascribing sentiment to these experiences rather than logic.
Anger is a sign that you feel unfairly treated. As we are the masters of our own fate, when we remember this, forgiveness replaces anger with peace. It's metanoia, changing your mind which changes your emotions. The outer world is reinterpreted by the mind.. We see a new world and ourselves as a different people in this world through forgiveness; then the architect is working with a different medium and new tools. With forgiveness, the unfairness passes away.
@@maximzenith7583 When we see others as diseased, evil, we will see ourselves the same way because the world is a mirror, but it's mostly an unconscious one. We project out our evil onto others, but it eventually comes back to us so we can heal from the hell we make for ourselves. "Judge not or you will be judged." That's projection. Disease and "accidents" / self- sacrifice is how we think we get rid of the guilt, the evil in ourselves that we try to project. But it doesn't work. We finally realize that forgiveness does work; seeing everyone down deep as innocent but needing to correct our minds. Metanoia. Ease is applying truth instead of lies. "Seek the truth and the truth will set you free. "If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent."
Forgiveness is a compromise. Its always better to confront the source of your anger in a healthy way than to fake forgiveness because it avoids conflict.
I love this !! and her book! I really wish that when referencing old myths or outdated beliefs, educators would use language in a way that constantlyyyy 🔁 reminds listeners 👂 of their outdated and false nature. 💡 📚 In 2020, Ecker et al. conducted a study with 1200 participants, showing that correcting misinformation WITHOUT repeating the false claims is more effective. 🤷🏽♂️ 🔥 I’m looking forward to sharing this with my family! And loved ones, STARTING from 2:41, (after the old, classical view is explained). I don’t what them to BY MISTAKE believe the classical view 🤮 (due to hearing it described so eloquently) rather than, absorbing 🧽 the NEW findings she beautifully explains here and in her book! 🫶
What a journey human experience is. Your video woke me up with a, feeling of compassion towards my own life and others. We need to remember that this process that you describe is a journey. It never ends. It is exactl how Andrew Kenneth Fretwell describes in his book - '’Life is an evolutionary process, and being human means there are always going to be new feelings to digest.’’ (book Emotional Alchemy The Love And Freedom Hidden within Painful Feelings)
Yes, For the sake of survival you need to make decisions and choices. I think our ancestors the Buddhists tought us the best about the nature of emotions and the technique to approach them. What the professor says here, is pure common sence. But these emotions can rule and consume your energy for a long time before you let go and relax about them. So again, It is the awareness will/need, & practice That can save you. That is a part of our legacy as human.
I think there is another side of this we need to consider, and that is the social. We are one of the few species on Earth that is “ultrasocial“, which means that a large part of who we are is fashioned by the behaviors and beliefs of the other humans around us. Our emotions are tied to this, even to the point where we will go along with our group’s beliefs even when we rationally know they are wrong. That’s because we need the group to survive. So human emotions have evolved to connect us to each other, and to distinguish us from other groups, for better or worse.
@lolakauffmann true... I don't think we should fight a natural emotion, but we can consciously experience it and express it or use it in a beneficial manner, as opposed to trying to suppress it or change it
Having a control over your life is always appealing to people. You can change your life, you can change yourself, always sells. But then again, control is often number one problem. We have very little control of our life, if any really, and we don’t like it. There is no magic formula, no one will tell you a secret that will fix your life. All you can do is go with the punches. You are always doing the best you can. If you could do better, you would. There is some liberation in that.
About the "myth" of emotions being universal. Keep in mind this is Barrett's theoretical stance on the issue of innatenes of emotions, but it's NOT the only one. IDK if it's intentional, but she is working this as if hers was the only plausible view (that's why she calls it a "myth"), but it's far from it. An though i mostly agree with her position, it's dishonest to treat it as the only hypothesis.
Yes this is a good point as it seems to contradict Dr. Paul Ekman’s extensive research on the universality of emotional expression on the face and in body language. I think they both have good points to make but as you said they are theories.
I admire parts of her work, however, I’m bewildered and astonished how not once, was the words: heart, heart coherence, empathy, compassion, connection, creativity, somatic, moon cycles, intuition or imagination mentioned. 😮 Which leads me to imagine that the majority of her scientific research and pioneering work centres mainly around the brain (and the left side, in that) and how it solely interacts, creates and feeds back data with emotions in the body.
Like very very much your work, how you communicate and how you present yourself: authentic (of course you try to be polite 😂. It had changed my profession and life for good. I hope one day you edit a video directed to psychotherapists and psychologists. Bye from 🇯🇵
Emotions are the guiding function of consciousness. Consciousness is the unique ability that everyone has to navigate our own and individual survival. Our brain holds the patterns of success and disregard failure. Psychocybernetics... You are the universal creation of your own entropy existence. Your time is yours. Feel the truth that you create. The ultimate paradox of your existence
Unlikely, i'm also certain I have watched,within the span of these past 10days. I think it's been reuploaded, or it was posted first on the Big think channel, however I'm noticing more content within this video than the earlier
This is a video we posted first on The Well, a channel dedicated to pursuing life's biggest questions that is a collaboration with the John Templeton Foundation. bigthink.com/the-well/
This seems like a simplistic analysis, to place biochemistry above meaning and lived experience. Clearly, the social and material context of a person's life determines that person's emotional experience, not some biochemical anomoly. This video reflects a very limited biomedical understanding of emotion.
Because you’re probably thinking incorrectly about the world around you. Start to look at things for what they are instead of what you want them to be or what you think they are
@@Dimitris_Half Spoken like a grade A idiot. Solving problems is how you deal with stress. Crying doesn’t do anything to solve your problems. Encouraging someone to stay in an highly emotional state rather than a practical state when they are under stress is literally the dumbest thing I’ve heard all year. Try dealing with stress your way and there will be no progress in removing the stress. Try dealing with stress my way and you’ll have partially or completely removed the stress. How old are you?
That's not entirely true. It can be the other way around. Dr. Andrew Huberman explains it very well in a podcast, how continuous emotions create certain states of being which influence your thinking.
It's both. Thoughts control emotions, and emotions control thoughts. However, the more you control your thoughts, the more you can take control over how everything develops within the mind. Notice how many mentally sound people tend to be able to be very emotionally mature, in contrast to emotionally immature people, who tend to be very impulsive...and we all know how that ends.
@@Lolwutdesu9000 I think that's mostly a well trained PFC - eventually is becomes rather about noticing emotions in the moment and learning or understanding how to deal with them (aka emotional intelligence)
Lisa Feldman Barratt says elsewhere that you thunk the way you do because you feel the way you feel. So it's really the other way around. What will your next thought be? She describes it as 'seeding your brain to think differently.' Controlling thought with thought is a strange idea.
Very nice and important interview, but the music is highly distracting. Please let the speaker just speak. The music does not add anything, but additional mental load.
Emotions are just various shades of anxiety. You're either extremely close, enveloped within it, or quite distant from it. That's all there is to say about emotions. Anxiety is the fundamental nature of everything... that can be easily damaged or destroyed. The higher the complexity of the cell build-up, the higher in various complexities 'anxiety' will display itself.
That's totally true I felt angry when and very sad when one of my classmate in middle school told something bad about my skin colour but years later I see it in this way I called him crazy dumb And that probably hit a nerve because he was always kinda yk idk but had some communication problem like could not see properly into the eyes of people but talked very vast and had lisp . Which kinda gave this stupid crazy vibes to everyone in the class and teachers he was also not good in studies So I think seeing all these he sensed it as something very unfortunate about him May be this was one of his biggest insecurities Some friends would also refer to him as the "crazy one " So now I don't feel sad because I didn't realise that what the impact of me calling him that triggered in his brain it could be traumatic so he found whatever he could to reply and save him back.
However, the summary of sensory reports (emotions) could become independent agent overtime that itself trigger some kind of body state. So it could start working in both ways.
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EMOTION - Imagine your brain is like a storyteller. It uses your past experiences and feelings to predict how you might feel and react to things happening around you. So, when something happens, your brain quickly tells you a story about it based on how you've felt before. These stories help you understand and respond to the world, and that's what we call emotions.
"You are an architect of your experience " which/what/who are the other architects?. And if there are other architects, then is not just about your predictions about your body.
Have you been able to overcome bad experiences by cultivating better ones?
In some ways I think that's what practice is :). There have been some things that I wasn't very good at--e.g. speaking Spanish--but through practice and getting better and better results, I enjoyed it a lot more. I predicted and achieved better outcomes from the people I was talking to.
All experiences (good and otherwise) stored for future references to be drawn upon time of need ~ tool
Id be surprised if someone couldnt
@katherenewedic8076 You're 100% correct. I've learned to control my emotional reactions to situations with a combination of learning how and why childhood adversities effect my limbic system and by practicing meditation and breathing exercises to stay in a calm state. The longer I've done this the easier it is to notice a potentially upsetting situation is occurring and stay calm. But the key is knowing the root cause. ✌️🇨🇦
yes but also by trying some bad experiences in different ways have taught me to find alternate ways to over come the bad
What she's saying is that emotions are concepts we learn that the brain then applies automatically based on signals from your body and environment. But if we relearn those concepts in a real way, we can change how we experience emotions.
And do it over and over and over and over in different contexts and repeat and repeat and repeat. It's not just relearning, you have to dilute the old lessons to the point where they no longer have any influence.
How does one account for culmination of stimulae drawn by the brain, dilute them to no influence, felt from different parts of the body and stack in what... a void?
@@maximzenith7583I like to think of it being stored in an archive folder somewhere in my brain.
@@nasmith83 the brain knows feeling as one of 5 sense, are archives the soup called emotion? Assuming EQ is as defragmented these archives can get...
@@maximzenith7583❤❤
“You are an architect of your experience” Such an eloquent and empowering way to describe the human condition.
Have you seen her inspiring Ted talk? Can the architecture bring a person to a state where one has no use of its power and an idle observer who is sadistic?
"Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
@@robertdouglas8895 earthly stardom? The fate of being born underlings? Why aren't greats ever born in stoicism? Is EQ versus numbness similar? Of them is it a high class or royalty of death and sleeplessness?
Complete BS.
How does someone trapped in a delusion , architect thier experience, ?
Which means your statement translates to "I'm alright jack screw you" nice attitude
I'm intrigued by the idea that we can essentially rewrite our emotional scripts by consciously altering our experiences. It's like DIY neuroplasticity!
i like the way you phrased that!
It is The Law of Attraction
I would argue this has been the purpose of religion throughout our history. That and as a catalyst for the creation of civilizations. Fascinating stuff that ancient people knew essentially what this modern scientist has determined after decades of scientific experimentation.
@@robertharte4
The point of religion is faith. The point of humanities based science is to describe something with our own take on it.
psychedelics
I'm a psychologist and watching this video reminded me again why I love my career so much. They way emotions and feelings aren't the same and how we react from past experiences it's such an eye opener to anyone that wants to undertand more about this topic. I'm beyond grateful and happy I found this video because it's so good. Thank you!
@-XtraCredit- Honestly, it is scary but psychologists need help too to release that baggage. Still, I always recommend therapy, it's as necessary asgoing to the doctor.
@@andysmagicspot1009 The most traumatized people don't have money to go to therapy!
This is also what makes trauma difficult because the traumatic experience triggers systems that send off survival stress signals, which gets everything caught into a self-perpetuating feedback loop that gets difficult to break. This is also why the things that can alleviate trauma can be identical to what will exacerbate trauma, and the only difference is the stability of the environment in which that occurs because of the removal of stress allows the individual to rewrite and overwrite those emotions without the stress response taking over, whereas that occurring in an uncontrolled environment reinforce that pattern further.
Related is that this is also what makes neglect difficult because there's an active lack of stimulus to help create a differentiation to allow your brain to change the pattern of experience. That's why isolation and loneliness have a significant psychological and physical health impact that's difficult to overcome without external assistance to help first break that pattern, especially once it hits a point of learned helplessness.
Are these systems continuum of void?
take mdma
That’s a good description of ptsd syndrome complex or otherwise, it’s a real bastard death loop.
Yeah mdma is a powerful drug to combat it, pity it can’t be legally prescribed 😢
@@MrAllstari know :(
❤ Pierre I don't usually comment on people's comments' but yours is a knock-out (yeah, you really nailed it). You speak as someone who understands trauma (and its affects) deeply, and have as a result come to a deeper, more compassionate understanding of the human condition. More so, than the [typical] clinician, academic or philosopher. I salute you.
I love her book "How Emotions Are Made". It has changed how I perceive a lot of things
Imaginary emotions in an imaginary world you mean
If I torture you and send you around bend emotionally and thus force you to create a delusion that you escape into forever
Then "How emotions are made" becomes utter nonsense
Hence why they believe they know things these Abrahamic scientists
And they actually know nothing at all and still cant help a person out of a delusion
“The best way to change the past is to change your present.” As someone who always have to know the “why,” Dr. Barrett has enlightened my perspective on why “finding new hobbies” or “putting your eggs in different baskets” matter. There’s always something that we can be good at… and there’s always kind and positive people out there! To enjoying life! 🎉
"Emotions are a way of being in the world" - one of my favourite quotes
Anger is a sign that you feel unfairly treated.
"Sometimes in life, we are responsible for changing things, not because we're culpable or to blame for those things,
but because we're the only ones who can change them. And that can feel unfair, and it is unfair, in a certain way.
But it's also helpful because it means that you always have tools available at your disposal to heal yourself,
to act differently, and to feel differently."
I quote here, because it's invaluable and helpful advice for me, and it's so true in my experiences actually!
it's not your fault, but it is _your_ problem
I highly recommend her Ted Talk. Her explanations and visuals were perfect in explaining how what our bodies are feeling leads to the emotions we're (likely) going to feel.
The thing about being emotions a recap or a translation of what's happening to you physically is so true.
For years I will turn randomly "depress". For a lot of time it made sense as I was not in the best of situation. But when life started to get better, I started to see those "random" feelings where out of place.
Short story: I finally did the connection and I notice it happens one week before my period. It sound obvious now. But back in the time people were only telling me "girls get so difficult when the are having the period". So I have to re educate myself, not only about periods, but about the feelings it creates.
One I got it I never felt "randomly depressed " again
My interpretation of her theory is that emotions are like habits. They are formed by past experiences, probably heavily influenced by your upbringing. But you can change emotions(habits) by becoming more aware of them and providing yourself with other kinds of experiences.
Please do never stop this series!! It's so wonderful, inspiring and thought provoking. Thank you so much for these masterpieces!
Thanks!
I'm deeply impressed by Lisa Feldman Barrett's video on "How Emotions Work." She has helped me gain a better understanding of how the mind and emotions operate in our everyday lives. She is truly an outstanding speaker, and the content is very intriguing. Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge!
I just love so much when a video in this channel made me stop for a while because I really need to think about it. Emotions, I guess.
This gives me hope. I didn't think about emotions this way. This is definitely eye-opening.
One of my all time favorite scientists and speakers. Her work on emotions and overall helping to dismantle false understandings about the brain has been groundbreaking. Understanding that police actually see guns when they are not there because their brains create the illusion of such is a revolutionary truth! Thank you Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett for not being afraid to speak truth to power!🙏🏾🔥✊🏾
Her book how emotions are made, secret life of the brain is a game changer and a must read.
Socially feelings matter. But from the outside looking in, emotions do not matter, what behaviors those emotions produce is what matters. So if someone or a group of people have responses that are counter-productive or destructive, the search should be to find why they respond that way while others do not. Everyone gets happy and sad, learning about what those feelings turn into and why is where great minds should be looking.
and guess what? it's even worse for the society itself condemns being aware or learn about the cause and being in the opposite side of it is exhausting as it's very rare lonely position with little to no help in such of the society.
@@yurishaa.9337 Yes, with the way things are today, it is hard being different. In an extroverted world, being aware and thoughtful is sadly often a weakness instead of a great strength
@@doellison it's no longer even extroverted world, it's becoming the world of fake-introversion gullibility. It's ironically easy to lead people who posess attention span equal to goldfish added with wokeness whatever. Harder to make connections because everyone fixated on their demise-leading distractions, lacking common sense, and focused on the meaningless things your normal extroverts 10 years ago could just scratch their heads on. Being aware and thoughtful? you see they got literally stoned (cancelled) by these folks, and the majority of introverts ...y'all just go into hermitage already before we eventually follow.
i wish i watched such content 3 years ago, my life and the turn of events would have been different. but its true that only we can act differently than past to change our perceptions and forget the past that imprisons our identity. it's always in our hands, if not before, but now, that we are aware.
In brief, the brain is fed from our experiences in order to regulate the body in any situation, decision making etc. Give it the best experiences you can get ! Don't let life just happen to you and you will change your present and future.
As a person with bipolar disorder, her lecture makes me anxious.
Emotion = E motion. Energy that moves you
After rationalizing my emotions for ages and having my therapist telling me not to rationalize my feelings, here I am searching how emotions work 👍
no this is actually very much in line with not intellectualizing your feelings lol
Peace is where you notice the white noise without trying to. There’s a German word; waldensamkiet which translates to the feeling of being alone in the woods and for me this sums it up. I tried rationalising my feelings but I found it much more conducive to expand my emotional vocabulary because I was just scribbling over myself in thoughts until I was able to express myself more aptly to the point that I don’t need to express what I already know for myself. The modern English vocabulary has become overtly technical and so I find other languages are quite helpful. I’d hazard a guess that you’re sentimental to have such a focus on your thoughts and feelings and so I would suggest ascribing sentiment to these experiences rather than logic.
Anger is a sign that you feel unfairly treated. As we are the masters of our own fate, when we remember this, forgiveness replaces anger with peace. It's metanoia, changing your mind which changes your emotions. The outer world is reinterpreted by the mind.. We see a new world and ourselves as a different people in this world through forgiveness; then the architect is working with a different medium and new tools. With forgiveness, the unfairness passes away.
What is ease and dis-ease in your right?
@@maximzenith7583 When we see others as diseased, evil, we will see ourselves the same way because the world is a mirror, but it's mostly an unconscious one.
We project out our evil onto others, but it eventually comes back to us so we can heal from the hell we make for ourselves. "Judge not or you will be judged." That's projection. Disease and "accidents" / self- sacrifice is how we think we get rid of the guilt, the evil in ourselves that we try to project. But it doesn't work. We finally realize that forgiveness does work; seeing everyone down deep as innocent but needing to correct our minds. Metanoia.
Ease is applying truth instead of lies.
"Seek the truth and the truth will set you free.
"If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent."
Forgiveness is a compromise. Its always better to confront the source of your anger in a healthy way than to fake forgiveness because it avoids conflict.
@@enrique4459🎉
Thank you for this. Will be definitely meditating about this at work.
How about you get on with your work at work.
@@bushcraftadventure5215 wat
That last segment speaks to me so much. Thank you Lisa
Thank you for sharing.
Best series in the entirety of UA-cam
Understanding emotions are critical for growth and development.
Every sentence makes sense. What a remarkable professor.
I love this !! and her book! I really wish that when referencing old myths or outdated beliefs, educators would use language in a way that constantlyyyy 🔁 reminds listeners 👂 of their outdated and false nature.
💡 📚 In 2020, Ecker et al. conducted a study with 1200 participants, showing that correcting misinformation WITHOUT repeating the false claims is more effective. 🤷🏽♂️
🔥 I’m looking forward to sharing this with my family! And loved ones, STARTING from 2:41, (after the old, classical view is explained). I don’t what them to BY MISTAKE believe the classical view 🤮 (due to hearing it described so eloquently) rather than, absorbing 🧽 the NEW findings she beautifully explains here and in her book! 🫶
the changing your brain's predictions part was so important for me
Thank you for everything that you do, Big Think team ✨
Jaysus! This is pure gold!
What a journey human experience is. Your video woke me up with a, feeling of compassion towards my own life and others. We need to remember that this process that you describe is a journey. It never ends. It is exactl how Andrew Kenneth Fretwell describes in his book - '’Life is an evolutionary process, and being human means there are always going to be new feelings to digest.’’ (book Emotional Alchemy The Love And Freedom Hidden within Painful Feelings)
Gosh this is sooo good. Really changes the perception. Thank you.
I think these videos are changing my life
It's amazing how she went on talking about how emotions apparently work without even attempting to define it first...
one of the best videos on the internet
This was great! Thank you Ms Barrett!!
Yes,
For the sake of survival you need to make decisions and choices.
I think our ancestors the Buddhists tought us the best about the nature of emotions and the technique to approach them.
What the professor says here, is pure common sence.
But these emotions can rule and consume your energy for a long time before you let go and relax about them.
So again,
It is the awareness
will/need, & practice
That can save you.
That is a part of our legacy as human.
I think there is another side of this we need to consider, and that is the social. We are one of the few species on Earth that is “ultrasocial“, which means that a large part of who we are is fashioned by the behaviors and beliefs of the other humans around us. Our emotions are tied to this, even to the point where we will go along with our group’s beliefs even when we rationally know they are wrong. That’s because we need the group to survive. So human emotions have evolved to connect us to each other, and to distinguish us from other groups, for better or worse.
Often for worse. Zapffe was correct.
How come it is that in her Ted talk it is described that feelings as you allude to with community and so forth differ much to emotions
The last 2.5 minutes are the most explicatory for me. Very interesting.
Cant stress this enough --Emotion is an INTERPRETATION of a given condition, an INTERPRETATION!
@@lolakauffmann "will to meaning" Viktor Frankl got to this same conclusion through experience in Auschwitz ...
@lolakauffmann true... I don't think we should fight a natural emotion, but we can consciously experience it and express it or use it in a beneficial manner, as opposed to trying to suppress it or change it
Keep me educated and learning new things. Thank you Big Think
Your past experience are ingredients for your present make it in better,to create and feel better
Having a control over your life is always appealing to people. You can change your life, you can change yourself, always sells. But then again, control is often number one problem. We have very little control of our life, if any really, and we don’t like it. There is no magic formula, no one will tell you a secret that will fix your life. All you can do is go with the punches. You are always doing the best you can. If you could do better, you would. There is some liberation in that.
Bruh the video is worth more than 300k views :). I love this article and the mindset given!
Thank you so much. It's wonderful.
This is what Creative Emotional Intelligence is all about!
About the "myth" of emotions being universal. Keep in mind this is Barrett's theoretical stance on the issue of innatenes of emotions, but it's NOT the only one. IDK if it's intentional, but she is working this as if hers was the only plausible view (that's why she calls it a "myth"), but it's far from it. An though i mostly agree with her position, it's dishonest to treat it as the only hypothesis.
Yes this is a good point as it seems to contradict Dr. Paul Ekman’s extensive research on the universality of emotional expression on the face and in body language. I think they both have good points to make but as you said they are theories.
Much needed video. 😢
Lisa Feldman Barrett ❤
The video was truly inspiring and got to leaen a lot.
I admire parts of her work, however, I’m bewildered and astonished how not once, was the words: heart, heart coherence, empathy, compassion, connection, creativity, somatic, moon cycles, intuition or imagination mentioned. 😮
Which leads me to imagine that the majority of her scientific research and pioneering work centres mainly around the brain (and the left side, in that) and how it solely interacts, creates and feeds back data with emotions in the body.
Excellent information!
i will buy the book
Emotions are a type of energy
I really needed to know this thank you ❤
I love this video.. ❤ thanks
I feel happy all the time
Really, 😊 wait till you loose a loved one, 😊 Beutiful day to you 😘😘😘😘
You might be a very grateful person even when things are hard, do you mean that? Or do you mean you feel happy all the time.
@@bashirediouf584 wtf
@@bashirediouf584 I’ve lost loved ones, but you have to realize it will happen to all of us. Mourn of course, but don’t dwell on it.
@@walterroux291 Very grateful person, yes thank you for the clarification. Everyday I’m grateful I’m alive and well.
I'm impressed.
Like very very much your work, how you communicate and how you present yourself: authentic (of course you try to be polite 😂. It had changed my profession and life for good. I hope one day you edit a video directed to psychotherapists and psychologists. Bye from 🇯🇵
Get out of your comfort zone! Never stop developing yourself! Have new experiences that help you to see (and feel) the world in a different way.
7:00 she ment "the best way to change my FUTURE is to change your present" right ?
Emotions are the guiding function of consciousness.
Consciousness is the unique ability that everyone has to navigate our own and individual survival.
Our brain holds the patterns of success and disregard failure. Psychocybernetics...
You are the universal creation of your own entropy existence. Your time is yours. Feel the truth that you create. The ultimate paradox of your existence
Why does this video feels like a deja vu? I've watched it somewhere...
Unlikely, i'm also certain I have watched,within the span of these past 10days. I think it's been reuploaded, or it was posted first on the Big think channel, however I'm noticing more content within this video than the earlier
This is a video we posted first on The Well, a channel dedicated to pursuing life's biggest questions that is a collaboration with the John Templeton Foundation. bigthink.com/the-well/
to have difference experiences that get you outside of the normal range of what your brain would predict
This seems like a simplistic analysis, to place biochemistry above meaning and lived experience. Clearly, the social and material context of a person's life determines that person's emotional experience, not some biochemical anomoly. This video reflects a very limited biomedical understanding of emotion.
Metabolic expenses
Pleasant unpleasantness, discomfort comfort (valence), worked up calm (arousal)
One of the best explanation
This is a good video. Very informative. 😊
Why do I cry all the time
Because you’re probably thinking incorrectly about the world around you. Start to look at things for what they are instead of what you want them to be or what you think they are
@@Dimitris_Half Spoken like a grade A idiot. Solving problems is how you deal with stress. Crying doesn’t do anything to solve your problems. Encouraging someone to stay in an highly emotional state rather than a practical state when they are under stress is literally the dumbest thing I’ve heard all year. Try dealing with stress your way and there will be no progress in removing the stress. Try dealing with stress my way and you’ll have partially or completely removed the stress. How old are you?
Your thoughts produce your emotions. Control your thoughts and you control your emotions.
It might actually be just the other way around.
That's not entirely true. It can be the other way around. Dr. Andrew Huberman explains it very well in a podcast, how continuous emotions create certain states of being which influence your thinking.
It's both. Thoughts control emotions, and emotions control thoughts. However, the more you control your thoughts, the more you can take control over how everything develops within the mind. Notice how many mentally sound people tend to be able to be very emotionally mature, in contrast to emotionally immature people, who tend to be very impulsive...and we all know how that ends.
@@Lolwutdesu9000 I think that's mostly a well trained PFC - eventually is becomes rather about noticing emotions in the moment and learning or understanding how to deal with them (aka emotional intelligence)
Lisa Feldman Barratt says elsewhere that you thunk the way you do because you feel the way you feel. So it's really the other way around. What will your next thought be?
She describes it as 'seeding your brain to think differently.' Controlling thought with thought is a strange idea.
Thanks
Magnificent 🙏
This really made me think.
Very nice and important interview, but the music is highly distracting. Please let the speaker just speak. The music does not add anything, but additional mental load.
Emotions are just various shades of anxiety. You're either extremely close, enveloped within it, or quite distant from it.
That's all there is to say about emotions. Anxiety is the fundamental nature of everything... that can be easily damaged or destroyed.
The higher the complexity of the cell build-up, the higher in various complexities 'anxiety' will display itself.
i now need all her books! she just time collapsed half of the knowledge i get to deal with about life as an adult
That's totally true I felt angry when and very sad when one of my classmate in middle school told something bad about my skin colour but years later I see it in this way I called him crazy dumb
And that probably hit a nerve because he was always kinda yk idk but had some communication problem like could not see properly into the eyes of people but talked very vast and had lisp .
Which kinda gave this stupid crazy vibes to everyone in the class and teachers
he was also not good in studies
So I think seeing all these he sensed it as something very unfortunate about him
May be this was one of his biggest insecurities
Some friends would also refer to him as the "crazy one "
So now I don't feel sad because I didn't realise that what the impact of me calling him that triggered in his brain it could be traumatic so he found whatever he could to reply and save him back.
However, the summary of sensory reports (emotions) could become independent agent overtime that itself trigger some kind of body state. So it could start working in both ways.
The thumbnail is wonderful, could you share the source?
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EMOTION -
Imagine your brain is like a storyteller. It uses your past experiences and feelings to predict how you might feel and react to things happening around you. So, when something happens, your brain quickly tells you a story about it based on how you've felt before. These stories help you understand and respond to the world, and that's what we call emotions.
Man, I still couldn't understand what she said, my head hurts.
"You are an architect of your experience " which/what/who are the other architects?. And if there are other architects, then is not just about your predictions about your body.
I like her voice
Emotions - real body problem or uncertainty in the world.
Art is a tool to expand pattern recognition to help you act differently from past
Have you talked to Roger S. ???
👏 well said aunty... ✌️😁
Has this been reuploaded?
S+M=E situation + meaning = emotion
What part of the body experiences things happening in brain??
Lisa I relate
This is basically a scientific explaination of stoicism.
I experience emotions as made by the body (hormones etc) and by the mind, the mind can also change the experience of emotions