Distract Yourself or Think It Over? Two Ways to Deal with Negative Emotions

The majority of dealing with life is a flexible response to ups and downs. Now, the research will be posted in the Psychology Journal (Psychological Association Journal), which we found that people choose different responses based on their emotional strength. When they face strong negative emotions, they tend to choose to transfer their attention, but in the case of low intensity, they tend to take this emotion into account and neutralize.

Emotions are useful - for example, fear tells your body to escape in a dangerous situation or prepare to fight. Gal Sheppes of Stanford who studied research with Gaurav Suri and James J. Gross, colleagues at Stanford University and Susanne Scheibe, may also be problematic. Groningen University. "Fortunately, our emotions can be adjusted in various ways," he said.

Sheppes and his colleagues studied the two main ways people adjust emotions, namely distraction or reviewing the situation. For example, if you are in the waiting room of a dentist, you may be able to divert your future unpleasant attention by reading the dissolution of a celebrity - "reason why the magazine first appeared there", or Sheppes said - "I said, good, I have to go through this tube, but it will make my health better, it will pass, I am worse I will do.

Many studies so far have taken direct strategies to adopt different strategies and measure the results, but researchers choose which adjustment strategy when facing a mild, intense intensity negative condition I would like to know. In one experiment, participants chose a way to adjust negative emotions caused by pictures that produce low intensity emotions and pictures that produce strong emotions. Pictures of snakes attacking should be more intense. In another experiment, participants chose a way to adjust anxiety while predicting an unpredictable shock, but before each shock tell you whether there is a shock with low intensity or more pain I was sorry. Before the experiment, the participants were trained on two strategies: distraction and reassessment.

In both experiments participants wanted to reevaluate more when negative emotions were low intensity - think about it and tell me why they are not so bad. However, when high-intensity emotions occur, they want to distract.

People who seem to have depression and anxiety are because they may have these problems because it is difficult to adjust their moods to adapt. Needs of different situations "He may need to learn when and where they will not join," he said.

You can not avoid negative emotions by trying to experience negative emotions, ignoring it, or distracting you. Paradoxically, trying to avoid experiencing negative emotions will make you experience them more frequently and more intensely. Tal Ben Shahar has taught Harvard University's most popular happiness course in history - famous people have two kinds of spiritually bad people and dead people who have never experienced negative emotions I am talking only. He also shared several contradictory strategies for accepting and accepting negative emotions and improving your happiness.

Most people deal with emotional distractions by ignoring embarrassment or being indulged in negative emotions. Neither method is suitable for giving important points to important work. If you ruin your feelings, if you feel deeply about your feelings, release some of yourself from the piece. Anxiety, you will fall into a deeper trap. It is difficult to climb. Then ask yourself: "Can I handle it?" The most likely answer is "Yes". If the answer is 'No', at least you know that you need help. In any case, write "How to deal with this problem" in your list of things. Now, at least you can do something about the stressor.