
Emotions, with Dr Dean Burnett
Instant Genius
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How to Get Rid of Negative Emotions
We don't like to be sad. It's a negative motion. Same with anger and fear, but there are loads of entertainment out there which are designed to produce these exact emotional states. If you have people who act in sad films, they're more likely to win awards than someone who does comedy. And that's just, we've ascribed a lot of value to the ability to make people sad or experience negative emotions. But if it's in a safe context - not affecting you directly aside from the emotional experience - then your brain gets to experience an emotion it doesn't normally get to. Which means your brain becomes better at processing and handling that emotional state for leg to use. That
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