b. So let's talk about the main three things that you can do to adjust a negative affect state.

They fall into three categories, lifestyle changes,

cognitive approaches, and understanding

the functional elements of bad moves.

And that's actually, I'll say last.

So lifestyle changes roughly fall

into what the Buddha called right action. In the 1980s

positive psychologists started funding a lot of baseline happiness tests which study what are the elements that

creates mood resilience in people, people who generally are somewhat immune

to the vagaries of bad moods who generally report steady baseline

states of general well-being ease, a lack of negative thoughts and the two most important factors that were found is one feeling that one's livelihood or work is in some way benefiting the greater good.

So if you feel that your job is in some way to the benefit of others.

It will make you feel more connected to the tribe.

Human beings are naturally social beings.

We have been hardwired by evolution

to have right hemispheres that reward us

for pro-social actions.

Every time you do something that's to the benefit of the tribe to which you're connected,

your right hemisphere literally is set up to create positive effects which

means you're you're wired to feel better about yourself why is this well in our

ancestral past the people who shared their resources and took care

of the sick and took actions that didn't just benefit itself but benefited the group

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