The Neuroscience of Emotions: How to Control Feelings

You are a living organism. That’s obvious, but this simple fact helps explain one of the most profoundly important aspects of your life: your emotions. In fact, it teaches you how to control your emotions. -- Please support this channel by signing up for Sense of Mind's Patreon and get bonus content every month: https://www.patreon.com/senseofmind You'll get: - Exclusive videos only for Patrons - Access to exclusive monthly livestreams - Written (blog post) versions of all new videos, including this one! -- Chapters: 00:00 Why does biology matter for emotion regulation? 00:45 Homeostasis and Homeostatic Emotions 03:04 Interoception: Conduit Between Brain and Body 07:05 Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts Defined 09:58 Why you feel emotions in your body 14:00 The Joy of Learning 15:28 Why emotions are sometimes unhelpful 16:00 The 2 Fundamental Emotion Regulation Strategies 16:17 3 Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies (thought-based) 18:10 3 Feelings-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies 20:39 The Key: Know Thyself-- Sources: - Schiller, D., Alessandra, N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., ... & Soreq, H. (2024). The human affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, 105450. - Kobylińska, D., & Kusev, P. (2019). Flexible emotion regulation: How situational demands and individual differences influence the effectiveness of regulatory strategies. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 72. - Feldman, M. J., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Lindquist, K. A. (2024). The neurobiology of interoception and affect. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. - Craig, Arthur Dewitt. "Interoception and emotion: a neuroanatomical perspective." Handbook of emotions 4th ed. (2016). - Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 12(1), 1-23. - Davis, K. L., & Montag, C. (2019). Selected principles of Pankseppian affective neuroscience. Frontiers in neuroscience, 12, 1025. -- Don't forget to subscribe to this channel: @senseofmindshow And check out the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sense-of-mind/id1603691298 Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/senseofmind Follow Sense of Mind on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sense.ofmind/ -- All graphics and images obtained from scientific articles have been credited in the video and/or in the above list of references. All are licensed under either CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US) or CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US) Wikipedia images: All wikipedia images have been credited in the video and all are licensed under either CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US) or CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US) All B-roll comes from either https://www.storyblocks.com/ (using the appropriate purchased license) or from https://www.pexels.com/ All other images are property of Andrew Cooper-Sansone