Understanding Emotions

Emotions and the Brain

What is happening in our brains as we experience emotions, both the helpful and unhelpful ones! This videdo demonstrates that while sometimes our emotions can 'hijack' our rational thinking, we also have the power to manage our emotions with conscious thought.

How to Process Your Emotions

Not every emotion we experience is fully acknowledged, understood or even truly felt. There are feelings that exist in an ‘unprocessed’ form within us. This video explores the various ways we experience our emotions and connect to our own feelings.

On Being Out of Touch With One's Feelings

“An enormous amount of trouble in the world is caused by a tendency to be out of touch with our feelings. This idea may sound strange, and even a bit insulting. How could we not know what we are feeling? ”This video explores connecting to your own feelings.

Why Are We So Easily “Triggered”?

We are all aware that we may be easily 'triggered' by certain topics, react with far too much emotion to situations that don't call for it. Learning not to be triggered means looking back into our past to understand the origins of our behaviour -and being confident that what feels 'automatic' is in fact very changeable, once we grasp where it comes from.

Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Feelings

It can be very hard to detect just how much our judgement is constantly affected by our feelings. We should – at points – take care to be very skeptical of our first impulses. We have a benign sense that our minds offer us a reliable impression of ourselves, the people around us and the world at large. Should you trust your feelings?

Are You Willing To Feel Your Feelings?

In this video, you will learn how to name feelings and locate, describe, welcome and match sensations. You will also discover what wisdom your emotions have to offer.

Cultivating Wisdom: The Power of Mood-
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Does what you see influence how you feel? The opposite is true: What you feel , your "affect", influences what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch Dr. Barrett explains how you experience the world through affect-colored glasses and how affect can be a source of wisdom that helps you make better, wiser choices.

Your Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions-Your Brain Creates Them- Lisa Feldman-Barrett

Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience their emotions the same way? Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed studies to understand emotions. We may have more control over our emotions than we think.

Emotions:
Fact vs Fictions-
Lisa Feldman-Barrett

Dr. Barrett discusses research about about emotion whose conclusions seem to defy common sense. that has been wrong for 2000 years. She will dispel 4 of the most widespread fictions about emotions and explore a radically new scientific under-standing of what emotions are and how they work.

Understanding the Meaning of Mindfulness

The Happiness Trap: The Five Mindfulness Myths

In this exclusive clip from The Happiness Trap online program, Russ debunks the most popular myths about mindfulness.

Why Mindfulness is The New Superpower

You may be physically fit, but are you emotionally fit? dan Harris explains why mindfulness and meditation are the next big public health revolution.

The 3 Happiness Myths

This video illustrates the 3 happiness myths that we have been lead to believe, involving our thoughts and feelings. Written and narrated by Dr Russ Harris, an acclaimed ACT trainer and author of The Happiness Trap.

Understanding Anxiety Understanding Memory

Anxiety Attacks

It's easy to feel that anxiety attacks are freakish, illogical outbursts with no place in a sane life. But given the state of the world, and all the many properly worrying things in it, might they not, in fact, be difficult but logical markers of the utmost sanity?

Emotions and The Brain

The video takes explains what happens in our brains as we experience emotions, the helpful and unhelpful ones! Sometimes our emotions can 'hijack' our rational thinking. We have the power to manage our emotions with conscious thought.

What Happens When You Remove The Hippocampus

When (H.M.) cracked his skull in an accident, he began blacking out and having seizures. In an attempt to cure him, Dr. Skoville removed his hippocampus. The seizures did go away but so did his long-term memory! H.M. taught us about the brain and memory.

Understanding How We Feel Pain

The Mysterious Science of Pain

Explore the biological and psychological factors that influence how we experience pain and how our nervous system reactions to harmful stimuli. Joshua W. Pate investigates the experience of pain and how the brain determines how much pain we feel .

How to explain Pain to a patient
Lorimer Moseley

Pain researcher and physical therapist Lorimer Moseley discusses how to explain pain. In this video, you will learn how to name feelings and locate, describe, welcome and match sensations. You will also discover what wisdom your emotions have to offer.

Treating Pain Using The Brain - David Butler

Although much research has been done regarding how pain is made by the brain, very little of this information has reached pain sufferers. Pain science tells us, “we will have pain when our brain has more credible evidence of danger to our body than credible evidence of safety to our body.”

Why Things Hurt - Lorimer Moseley

Why do we hurt? Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion? In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our bodies' way of protecting us from damaging tissues further. He also looks at what this might mean for those who suffer from chronic pain.

 

Understanding the Fight or Flight Response and Stress

Fight or Flight The Stress Response

This video explains How it Fight or Flight system Works and how to recognize and deal with the stress response.

How Stress Affects The Body

Stress is common. Learn how the body responds to stress and causes physical symptoms such as: fatigue, headache, stomach pain, sleep, and mood disturbances. Tools for stress management like exercise and mindfulness were discussed.

The Body’s Response to Stress

We are exposed to stress often and it can trigger our fight or flight response. In addition, our body reacts to stress in several different ways.

How Stress Affects Your Brain

Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it give us a burst of extra energy and focus, but when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. M. Murgia shows how chronic stress can affect brain size, structure, how it functions, down to the level of your genes.

Fight or Flight Response

Epinephrine is responsible for changes in our body chemistry associated with the fight or flight respons and and is associated with the sympathetic nervous system.

Understanding Shame

Listening To Shame- Brene Brown

Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.

The Power of Vulnerability

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More

Understanding Love and Acceptance

Why “Love” is a Useless Word

Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Luckily, the Ancient Greeks had a more nuanced and complicated vocabulary that we can usefully borrow from.

Love Me For Who I Really Am

Our partner should love us 'for who we really are'. We should never expect another person to admire and adore us in our totality, with all our flaws and questionable sides. True love means being generous towards what is broken in ourselves and others - but not, for that matter, being expected to admire it all.

4 Magic Phrases to Use To Respond To Anything

Dealing with difficult people with four magic phrases guaranteed to stop difficult people who take your time at your expense. If people are damaging your self esteem, these powerful communication phrases will help you regain the communication and relationship confidence you deserve.