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Is Your Emotional State Affecting Your Life?
Psychologists have found that people can adjust their emotions by simply changing their relationship between their internal world, what we call interroception. So for instance, if i am very alert and it's time to sleep, and i can actively calm myself by using particular approaches, then i can suddenly go from being stressed to feeling great because i'm falling asleep or sleepy. And so there are tools to do this. We look at emotions through the lens of this autonomic nervous system. That brings us to the word states. States are something that are, i think, more tractable than the word emotions. The foundation of alertness or calmness is kind of tilting back and forth of a