Hack Your Emotions

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Negative emotions like fear or anger are part of being human. These feelings tell us something - perhaps prompting us to take action or bring about change. However, they're powerful and disruptive - and if they hang around too long or are too intense, they can take a huge toll on our happiness and wellbeing. We need to shift them... but how?

Psychologist Ethan Kross knows.

He's the author of Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You and founder of the Emotion and Self Control Lab at the University of Michigan - and shares his top science-backed tips to rein in feelings like sorrow, disappointment or rage.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:07.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	Negative emotions, feelings like fear, anger, sadness, and overwhelm,
0:19.0	are just part of being human. But that doesn't make them any easier to manage.
0:22.6	Whether it's the sense of dread we get before a challenging task
0:25.6	or the frustration of dealing with unmet expectations,
0:28.6	our big feelings can drain our energy, mess up our performance,
0:31.6	and make us feel like crap.
0:33.6	The good news is that we don't have to be at the mercy of our big feelings. Research shows that with the right strategies, we can not only manage tough emotions effectively,
0:42.3	but also use them to our advantage, no matter what life throws our way.
0:46.3	So in today's episode of the Happiness Labs' how-to season, we will dive into the science of emotion regulation.
0:52.3	And to help us, we have one of my favorite experts on the topic.
0:55.7	Here to teach you how to shift your emotions is my friend, psychologist Ethan Cross.
1:00.8	Great to see you guys. Let me put on some background here.
1:03.2	No, no, you're good.
1:03.9	What do you think? I'm just going to blur it here.
1:05.1	Yeah, blur is fine.
1:05.8	Okay.
1:06.5	Ethan founded the Emotion and Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan, and his latest
1:10.9	book tackles the topic of dealing with big feelings head-on.
1:14.3	It's called Shift, Managing Your Emotions, So They Don't Manage You.
1:18.5	We'll get to Ethan's specific tips in a moment, but I wanted to begin with how Ethan got
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