Fear, Anger, Anxiety, happiness...... 90 Seconds.
Emotions are the bodies responses to what we see, smell, hear, taste, touch or (think) think is in brackets for a moment.
So your 5 senses are telling you how to respond to the world, emotionally and physically. When something happens, we release hormones that give us a feeling.
Eg. Somebody compliments you, you feel good for a short period of time and forget about it. It has come to a conclusion. You don't need to figure out if they had an ulterior motive.
When something bad happens, you feel sad, angry, enraged, confused for the same length of time, because 90 seconds is how long those hormones remain in your system, which is where (think) comes in.
Our logical thinking brains and active memory can replay the action, your brain is blind and deaf, it just knows the response to the signals it gets. So you play it over and over, causing the same response as if it was actually happening again, and again.
So, learn to break the cycle. When someone cuts you off in traffic, when somebody annoys you in work. Break the cycle.
90 Seconds of meditation, listening to a song that cheers you up. Breathe and reset.
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