How to Control Your Feelings

"Self-control is an illusion. It's an illusion that occurs when both brains are aligned and pursuing the same course of action," he says. "When the thinking brain isn't aligned with the feeling brain, people feel powerless ... The only way you consistently nail that illusion is by consistently communicating and aligning the brains around the same values." This whole teacher thinking brain to decipher and cooperate with your feeling brain is the basis for CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, and ACT acceptance and commitment therapy.