Speaker 1: Pushkin. People will do just about anything to avoid pain,
Speaker 1: including cause pain. When it comes to the yucky emotions
Speaker 1: in life, most of us would prefer to suppress them,
Speaker 1: run away from them, or pretend they're just not there.
Speaker 1: It's a huge part of the mythology around emotion that
Speaker 1: if we look at in the eye, it gives it power,
Speaker 1: when the reality is if we look at in the
Speaker 1: eye and name it, it gives us power. I'm doctor
Speaker 1: Laurie Santos, and in the new season of the Happiness Lab,
Speaker 1: I want to suggest that we might be able to
Speaker 1: reset our relationship with our emotions in the new year.
Speaker 1: We all experience stuff like sadness, anxiety, and guilt, but
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, I want to help you look
Speaker 1: at negative emotions in a new light by heating the
Speaker 1: advice of experts like Brene Brown. The bad news is
Speaker 1: the less we talk about it, the more we experience it.
Speaker 1: But we need to learn how to recognize emotions and
Speaker 1: self and others. We'll look at some of the most
Speaker 1: powerful and potentially destructive emotions fresh eyes. I was always
Speaker 1: that person that was mad about injustice and mad about
Speaker 1: how other people treated and wanted to punch the sun
Speaker 1: at a very young age, and we'll see that even
Speaker 1: nasty feelings like anger are important signals to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: It's the nervous system getting wound up enough to do something.
Speaker 1: Anger is your body directing you to create change. In
Speaker 1: addition to the white hot emotions like rage, we'll also
Speaker 1: deal with those upsetting, listless feelings, lake burnout. There's a
Speaker 1: whole spectrum of well being, and Adam Grant will help
Speaker 1: us explore an overlooked emotion that many of us feel
Speaker 1: right now. On one extreme, you have depression or anxiety.
Speaker 1: On the other extreme, you have flourishing or thriving. And
Speaker 1: we don't really talk about the neglected middle child, which
Speaker 1: is languishing. And in a special two part show, we'll
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into an emotion that many of
Speaker 1: us struggle with, an even dread, perhaps the most negative
Speaker 1: of negative emotions. I pause, you negative? Why are they negative?
Speaker 1: What makes them bad? I'll talk to psychotherapist Julius Samuel
Speaker 1: about how we can reimagine our relationship with loss. No
Speaker 1: one wants to burst in tears in front of lots
Speaker 1: of strangers in the supermarket, and how we can even
Speaker 1: grieve better as you express it, something shifts. She'll draw
Speaker 1: both on her years of practice and the deeply personal
Speaker 1: experience she had losing her close friend, Princess Diana. One
Speaker 1: of the things I love most about Diana was her laugh.
Speaker 1: She had this incredibly raucous laugh that was really quite loud,
Speaker 1: and she often put her hand to her mouth and
Speaker 1: it was incredibly infectious. The new year is a great
Speaker 1: time to reset your relationship with your emotions, so join
Speaker 1: me for the next season of the Happiness Lab from
Speaker 1: January third, wherever you get your podcasts, and as a
Speaker 1: special added bonus, I'll also be creating six meditations based
Speaker 1: on the ideas in these episodes. They'll be available exclusively
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Speaker 1: I hope to see you back soon for our emotional
Speaker 1: reset in the new year. Until then, stay safe and
Speaker 1: stay happy.