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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Staying present always begins with being where you are, having your feet on the ground, |
0:06.2 | taking a few deep breaths, connecting with your own body. |
0:11.2 | And next up, intention. |
0:14.7 | What's your intention for this situation? |
0:22.5 | Today's topic is emotional contagion. |
0:28.3 | We've all been in those situations where we let other people's emotions and energy |
0:35.9 | throw us off track. Or we've been in those situations where other people's |
0:42.0 | emotional energy got us all caught up and made us feel better. The truth is the world and the |
0:50.8 | people around you, they have a particular type of energy and it can shape your |
0:55.9 | own emotions. When you're around sad people, they can make you feel sad. When you're around |
1:01.5 | hyped up people at a basketball game, you can feel hyped up. When you're in an audience with a |
1:06.9 | motivational speaker, you can feel more motivated. When you're with a friend who's having just a bad day, |
1:13.6 | suddenly you can feel your own energy lower, |
1:16.6 | even though the bad day they're describing is nothing like yours. |
1:21.8 | And when we become aware of this, hopefully in middle school, |
1:26.4 | we decide whether or not we want that process to happen in |
1:31.7 | such a way that we don't have any input. The sad truth is, you and I both know a lot of adults |
1:37.9 | who still fall prey to emotional contagion all the time. Of course, most of us do once in a while, but some people |
1:46.2 | have really lost control of their own emotional reality. You know, all the negative vitriol and |
1:53.0 | hatred out in the world keep sucking them right back in and they always feel angry, reactive, |
2:00.8 | impatient, upset, frustrated, because others around them have |
2:06.1 | that same feeling and they just get caught right up. |
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