The Emotional Self Regulator and Lily

Emotions in all other species are provoked by environmental events around them. Humans have a second part to their emotions, which is the ability to self manage them and even provoke their own emotions. Most of the time our emotions are being elicited or provoked by events around us. By interrupting our attention to the event, we can often down regulate the emotion much faster than if we keep paying attention to whatever it is that's provoking this emotion. And then finally, humans organize new emotions. They modify the emotion they are experiencing. And they may even be able to substitute a different emotion, a healthier emotion,. One that's more consistent with their goal in that ation and more consistent with longer