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Brain Science: Neuroscience, Behavior

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Is There a Difference Between Sensory Distractions and Emotional Distraction?

Sensory distractions are things happening around you, i.e. that sort of bottom-up processing and emotional distractions are your inner dialogue. And so when we use distractions to help us are very much like, I would say, in this case of managing more of the emotional distractions. We don't want to hear the chatter that my brain is telling me around whatever situation or feeling that I have. You know what I mean? Yeah.

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