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Is That What You're Getting At?
A psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett has spent most of her career building a body of evidence behind the idea that there are only a few kind of basic emotional experiences. And so you might experience like a high intensity negative emotion, but it's up to you to label that fear or anxiety as reasonable concern. Or to reframe it as something positive where you're like, I'm nervous and excited for what's to come - even though physical sensation is almost the same.