according to James Gross, one of the leading researchers…

Page 103 according to James Gross, one of the leading researchers in motion regulation, there are five ways that people effectively control their feelings. The first three are quite obvious , we can choose the situations. We enter to change those situations. Once we are in them three choose only to pay attention to the things which makes us feel the way we want to feel and finally the fifth one is pretty straightforward as well. We can try to change our emotional response by listening to some music getting drunk or just getting some much-needed sleep the fourth method and the one we are most interested in here is called cognitive change. In other words we can make changes in our minds perfectly healthy changes I might add which allow us to determine our emotional experience from within.

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