Awareness of our thoughts and emotions is the prerequisite to change them. People are mostly unaware of what is happening. They just get identified with their states of mind and let it control them.

"Everybody has a little more control than what they think they do"❤

Finally someone who explained the difference between feelings and emotions. The way I see it is Feelings are mental interpretations of our bodily emotions. So you can experience the emotion of Fear but have the feeling of dejection, failure, loss, terror, etc. Sharing from firsthand experience of healing myself and learning to regulate my emotions.

Great video, I was in a beautiful marriage before my now ex wife left me,i still love her and most times i cant stop thinking about her, i am doing my very best to get rid of the thought of her, but i just cant, i love her so much, i don't know why i am bring this here for, i cant stop thinking about her.

This was so so so insightful. I have experienced this. My job at times requires me to do field work often with very less sleep in between. To enable me to continue working, my brain tries to ignore the sensory information it recieves from the body when its fatigued. Eventually, that physical exhaustion takes the form of mental unrest. And by the time that period of intense field work gets over, I end up depressed, sad, develop unusally high levels of of hatred towards my job which I normally absolutely love and I begin to question my existence. I start finding everything pointless. With time I realised, that those unpleasant emotions are just a manifestation of my physical fatigue, which I had been avoiding to feel and acknowledge, as mental exhaustion and feelings of intense, unexplainable sadness, to be exact. I have noticed, after a good amount of rest, that get back to feeling normal and loving my life and my job. Thank you @bigthink for releasing such insightful videos featuring some of the most brilliant minds.

Feelings are a response to the thoughts we choose to believe. Realizing that a thought has no power over you allows you to respond in an appropriate manner. We are held captive by our thoughts, but we also hold the key to freedom.

much recommend both her books - How Emotions Are Made & Seven and a Half Lessons About The Brain - two of my most favourite books I've ever read

1:40 Great variability in emotional lives 2:09 The illusion the brain creates 2:37 How emotions really work. The brain regulating body top down, body is sending sensory information to the brain but we don't experience sensory changes. We get a summary--what we feel. 3:30 Are feelings emotions? Sound analogy. The brain is telling you a story processing the world inside and outside you 4:33 Why is it important? The explanation is a tool not the answer. 4:50 Depression explained. 5:25 Part of managing your emotions is using them as a diagnostic not a diagnosis. 5:53 Your brain is making emotions. Using past experience to predict things that may not happen. Emotions are not happening to you. 6:02 Implications: You are an architect of your experience. It involves predicting differently than the recipe or story you carry. 6:40 You can't change your past but every new experience is an opportunity to change your present (not your past) 7:00 Just in the same way you exercise to be healthier you can cultivate new experiences. Learning is evidenced by new and different experiences. Practice. Practice. Practice to predict and act differently. 7:45 Not everybody has as much control as they might like. But everyone has more control than they think they do. 7:50 when you enter the world you are not wired. Other people wire that world. You are not responsible for it as a child or adolescent. 8:11 But as an adult...you can make decisions about what you experience; make choices about how you act. You either reinforce your predictions your brain makes or you change them. 8:40 We are the only one who can change them. We are caretakers of our experiences but the brain does what it does...based on our past. But you can practice making a new and different lifeworld.

Body keeps the score of traumas ….emotional traumas are harder to heal as people get triggered from smell, a type of noise or anything else that takes you back . The behavioral FBI unit are great in recognizing people’s behavioral patterns as a typically taught patterns …. and repetitive taught creates emotions or feelings .

"Uses these new experiences to predict differently in the future ... For you to act differently in the future." Oh man, that's huge for me!

For me, it was great because it unrevealed, without a mess, the complexity of emotions. It opens the door to explore and wire new experiences as they are: unknown and unseen. We are constantly conditioned by systems, and just the communication with words represents many limitations. So, for me, a good approach could be 'To see, forgetting the names of the things we are looking at' - C. Monet.

She made a lot sense. And I believe, when you do experience emotions in regards to pain and suffering, you should just accept them, and not fight them, they will pass.

I’d argue you’re more the surfer of your emotions not the architect. We can’t control our emotions, but we can control how we react to them.

PTSD is different than being emotional.

Usually I am very skeptical of content along the lines of this video. However, I thought this was a very succinct and concise explanation and elaboration on the topic. Good stuff. Narratives are a grand part of the human experience, much of what we tell ourselves are only perceptions and not reality, meaning it can be changed through habituation and perspective. Thank you.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.. ✨️✨️✨️

This video is very interesting but it doesnt cover why we can still be "prisoners" of trauma that happened even before we had conscious memory (pre verbal trauma). Trauma is stored in the body, it's not just about how the conscious brain interprets it. Sometimes people are aware they're emotionally "overreacting", but they cant control it because they dont even know how or what happened. We've all heard about temporal memory loss, seeing red, etc.

Study the life of your parents, their parents and siblings and you will understand who you are a mirrored version of. And then learn to detach and become a wholesome version of yourself

I was expecting her to mention Meditation as a tool for emotional regulation, maybe in a different video... To finally realize that all that we are is the awareness, the stillness behind thoughts and emotions, one can then become aware of the emotional triggers, and consciously process the emotion, identifying the source, the trauma, the trigger, without being it, and increasing the space between stimulous and reaction. Through practice, one can even untangle unprocessed trauma, or repressed emotions and free yourself from your own mind and it's conditioning.

This is a very good video. There is still though a lot we do not understand scientifically. Any talk about feelings and emotions needs to talk about trauma and how this can effect the brain. I have had multiple trauma and I have needed special training to help me get over it and it is still an ongoing process. When people are as good as this professor they all need to spend a great deal of time exchanging ideas - psychiatrists with psychologists with therapists. No one discipline has all the answers but the good thing is we are making progress in our understanding of these things. I would like to thank Lisa Felman Barrett for the inspiration she has given me and the important things she has taught me and reinforced in my mind.

Yes emotions don't happen to you. You have experiences and you have feelings and emotions to me are like a release of all the experiences you have. Some people do not feel like others do. My mother had so much trauma in childhood that it made her not empathetic to other people's feelings. I was not allowed to express my emotions as a child being raised by her and learned to keep quiet because if I said or did anything she didn't like I would get raged on. I held my emotions in too long which led to a nervous breakdown eventually and had a hard time controlling my emotions after that. I was diagnosed as bi-polar but what the doctors never figure out was that my family were all narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. My mother still cannot under why when she does certain things that it hurts other people. She still gets upset when I get emotional and actually misinterprets emotions. This "World" we live in really does not allow for being too emotional. People go to work and you ask them how they are and they smile and say, "I'm good! How are you?" The stress of this world can be too much and it is very important to express your feelings and emotions are like a release. People can have a range of emotions both positive and negative. What I have learned is that the worst of the emotions stemmed from severe unresolved childhood trauma that I was not even aware of. Anger is a natural human emotion and children get angry as well as adults yet how we express that anger is extremely important. There are healthy ways to express anger other than ragging on people or being physically or verbally abusive. Stress in this world and health issues etc. can lead to painful emotions. It is all apart of the human experience. Healing has been a life long journey for me. I am a feeling person and would call myself an empath. People get their emotions stuck and it can lead to sickness. Holding your emotions in can even lead to cancer. So let it out I say! One of my favorite songs by MaDonna says it all, "Express Yourself, Don't Repress Yourself".

There are emotions that are fast and quick. Chemical reactions in the body. There are feelings which are a little longer. They are your interpretation of the emotions. They can set moods. And attitudes. Also once you have a mood you willfuly start generating thoughts and emotions that keep you in the mood. There both are fall under affect. They include emotions and moods. The brain wants to go into homeostasis though. What goes up, must come down. Not too high and not too low. This is why we tread between positive and negative thoughts. I'm trying to make sense of it. All I am not professional. We try to stay positive and happy all the time which is just not natural.

Best to say that we don’t “have emotions” rather we “do them”. We experience emotions as product of our human activities in the moment.

What happens on the environment - > received by the senses and the body - > signals the brain - > brain interprets based on past experiences and knowledge and acts accordingly - > release hormones - > emotions created

Thank you for this. A 9 minute video that’s consumed several hours down the rabbit hole of seeking to understand and relate to in my experience. Wow, heavy duty for one who’s been living with misconceptions. She can’t be the only one with insight on this, I’m going to look further.

This was so STINKIN inspiring! What a woman this lady is

The seeding part is really profound and if meddled with consciously with an intimate understanding of oneself, can change a person's life for the better.

Makes sense. I am recently finding it useful to reflect on my current experience of feeling OK whenever possible. (whatever I am doing) I think its retraining my brain and in the context of this video, giving my brain possibilities for new predictions.

Very very interesting. The only thing I would add, is that there is a lot of talk in the video about what ‘the brain’ thinks and believes, but scientifically we don’t know yet if that is accurate. We know about how the brain is involved chemically and electrically, and we are still learning more about that, but we don’t actually know if the brain itself ‘thinks’ or ‘believes’. The brain could also turn out to be the tool of something we have not yet discovered, for example, and we could currently be studying the result of that in the physical workings of the brain. Time and research will eventually tell us how this actually works, but until we do we will need truly open minds (not open brains ;-), especially among scientists.

I am sure to understand everything but trauma seems to be missing in this comprehension of the present emotions. Without healing these emotions from the past, it is very difficult to understand our present emotions.

Fabulous! So much clarity and so well put.

I have been owned lately by my feelings and depressed and fatigued. Wow! This broke some ground for me. I have intuitively been doing things different. I have been learning and practicing recording a new tape. I have been pausing to breathe and relax instead of reacting. Thank you for helping me to keep on this track by confirming that these thoughts on how to get well aren't another waste of my time or energy.

This is great. The explanation is clear and the video is entertaining. I like the editing and b-roll selection. Thank you for this.

Wonderfully informative and helpful. Thank you !

Perfect. No words to describe how good and important this lecture was to me.

Emotion is expressed energetically.

Brilliant! This information is very helpful and comforting. Great job!

Life is a journey. Emotions and thoughts are involved as we speak, before we speak. I never left the hospital after I was born....until I was rescued a month later. I am 74 now and still counting. LOVE. PEACE. God Bless.

Just brilliant! Thank you for the content 🙏

What I loved: It seemed to go in a scientific direction which could mean having to depend on medication to treat the alleged deficiencies in your body, making you feel a certain way. It didn't. It's still perspective and open mindedness that can change not only your outlook, but your physical systems significantly too. You are what you think.

“Not everybody has as much control as they might like, but everybody has a little more control that they think they do.” 7:11 - 7:53

Another myth is that we are so sure of ourselves we judge the ‘uneducated’ as irrational. Intuition, empathy, and tribal consciousness can be much much faster to reach a specific goal than thinking of the same things over and over

Exactly! I've long felt that emotions are your mind's way of summarizing an incredibly complex array of percepts. Of course this was mere deduction on my part, using the assumptions that they must be manufactured for a purpose of some kind, and that that purpose must play an evolutionarily significant role. In other words, it was a (I hope) not unintelligent guess. But so wonderful to have it confirmed by Ms. Feldman Barrett!

Emotions are automatic, whereas feelings can be chosen and willfully overlaid on top of those automatic emotions to help regulate them. It's definitely a practice, and much easier said than done-but not impossible.

So nice. Impeccable to be exact. Thank you💙🙏

Wow! I needed this so badly...

Just beautiful, thanks for this kind of information I appreciate all the efforts done behind the scene to get this kind of content out there, keep doing it, thank you.

Thanks. I appreciate the reasonable content of this message.

This was helpful thank you. It helps to remember I'm the architect of my experience. Also, absolutely incredible music in this episode esp the violin in the last 1/4 of the video!

Emotions are something that I chose to experience or not. I am the master of my emotions ! Not the slave of them..😊

Thank you Doc your words really helped. This world is a much prosperous place with you in it.❤😊

A woman is explaining emotions…we should definitely listen…

Looking forward to her book. I hope theres a audio version and that she narrates it. She has a pleasant voice.

As usual with pop sci, it's far too vague, unsourced and ends on a positive tone to get upvotes but doesn't give anything actually actionable (no, watching a movie and reading a book won't cure depression)

heartening and strengthening.

Consciously, emotions happen to you, and that’s what you is, consciousnesses. This was very enlightening. Thanks. I had actually never really thought about it wondered about the neurobiological reality of emotions.

This is amazing how cognitive, sensation & perception science, neurology, and psychology are getting to the point of saying very similar things as St. John of the Cross, Aquinas, and the Church Father's say about thoughts and emotions: about how brain and body work together, feeding each other information about the material world and past memories (and spiritual information being sensed by the soul and contributing to this process, but of course that's more metaphysics/theology territory), forming a den of personal and social stories that we may call the mind and personality. Those early Christian theologians (and I hear that Hindu and Buddhist gurus have tapped into similar observations despite differences between the cultural lenses of the East and the West) had the help of Hellenism, Plato, and Aristotle to give them the foundational language and framework to study this phenomenon. However, some of those theologians, religious leaders, psychologists and lay people fall into the trap of Stoicism in making erroneous conclusions and myths about the mind, emotions, and mental health as discussed in the video, leading to dismissing the issues people experience and coming up with inappropriate or downright ineffective or unethical treatments. I hope there will be scientists and philosophers who can work together to help dispel those misconceptions.

Thank you. Truly. I needed this.

I just literally read her book for my psychology class, thx for making a video! 🎉

Emotion is energy in motion. Intense negative emotions all stem from fear. If you take a look at why you are mad as an example, dissect your emotion and there is an underlying fear there. Positive emotions are of Love. All emotions need to come and go. Change is the only constant and how we react is all we are in control of.

Social media is messing with this ability so much that it is insane to ponder.

Pretty useful information! Thanks!

No I think we can all agree that emotions are definitely feelings that happen to us at times, and sometimes it's the wrong ones at the wrong times

Great explanation. Thank you

This is at the same time the explanation that makes most sense for thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and perhaps the most elusive one.

I rarely comment nowadays, but I just had to respond to this one. This video is lifechanging. It gives so much perspective and balance to our human experience.

Excellent presentation

Feeling is a sense. Like seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,... Emotions like thoughts are a separate thing. You see thoughts. You feel emotions.

Never been to universiy.But love always when someone,crazy more inteligent than me,with lots of research behind.DECADES.Sums it up.Anda I learn.Her ted talks,wished to post the link.was mind blowing.Just love to have a little insight of the brain.Thank you so much Doctor Lisa Fieldman Barret.

What a great presentation! I emotionally came away from this video. Feeling pretty excited about my future. Thank you. ❤️

It is helpful to be aware of our body's physiological processes to recognize the domino effect they can trigger and know how to intervene to achieve the best possible outcomes for our emotional well-being.

7:20 'new experiences ...that would require you to get outside the normal range of what your brain would predict'

“Emotions don’t happen to us, unless they’re when something is wrong in the world.” Really brushed under the rug

Thank you. I’ve been somewhat doing this process and you just gave a very beautiful way of explaining it. Really wonderful.

this knowledge is one of the best

Emotions arent real. The way I started dealing with emotions was to use my ego to control them. In my desire to not wanting to be controlled by others I started to realize if I react emotionally to anything that someone else does I basically become their puppet. Now my life is pretty much a seek and destroy method of being controlled by things outside myself. It doesnt work all the time but every day week month year, gets better and i find little bits of self control along the way.

We can change the present to help mold our future experiences. How should I mold my experiences? What is my goal? Next is the existencial crisis and a desire to let go of that control and then in a month or so I will be back to this video.

Experiences that deviate from what the brain predicts are the experiences outside your so-called comfort zone

This is very comprehensive and modern way to look at emotions as a summary of body signals and past experiences, with new information gathering in this ever changing world , if we aware , we can update our belief hence a better prediction. Emotions are just here to give you certain information.

Brilliant lecture. Thank you. ❤

And this is how, for example, you can pull yourself out of a "victim syndrome." By reshaping your emotional response to certain events unconnected to your original trauma. Seems to work for me.

Depression can actually be burnout in disguise. The world is a harsh place for those of us who are sensitive to stimuli.

Very very grateful

Emotions = "Energy in Motion" your vibrations.

I love this woman. She´s so confident and smart.

I was very skeptical of the thoughts presents at first her conclusions made everything clear. I’m inspired to creat new emotions for myself and I understand the path I must take to do it. Thank you!

This video is so empowering and useful for me. Thank you.

I've studied emotions for 63 years. Emotions are basic survival instincts. No one can control their emotions they are triggered at super natural speed, loud thunder will make you jump with fear. No matter how much you try to contain yourself, a good joke will make you laugh uncontrollably. You would be kidding yourself if you think you can control your emotions. Whoever controls your emotions controls you. No one controls me, not even my emotions. No one can anger me. I decided what I'm going to do with the emotion. First, I send it to be studied by committee. What caused it? What is its intensity? What priority will I give it? By the time I figure out what I'm going to do about it, the feeling is gone. I don't surpress them. I dismiss them. Don't give your emotions access to your physical actions. Your mindset is your filter. Emotions come and go on their own triggered by outside circumstances don't let Your emotions control you.

The last few minute of this video is such good information! Thank you. Sometimes I forget that I do have control! ❤

Very refreshing. Thanks for the lesson.

That was mind boggling

Thank you a lot!!!

needed to see this video again. i love this story. yes,outline. very exciting.

A lot of people used to live in their past. Now they live in someone else's past.

Wow what a great speech. Just one thing is wrong. Emotions are not an illusion. They are resonating energies that we create and carry on within each other. We just haven't been able to measure it yet except with all the psychological facts that were just mentioned.

I’ve learned to not listen to any story anyone tells you, you have to go and discover things about this reality on your own. Even this story about emotions. What she says sounds good in theory but never forget to test it out for yourself and don’t go just believing it because it sounds good.

It would be interesting to hear her speak on how money affects a persons emotions. One with less money will most likely be more miserable, and one with a lot of money will most likely be more happy and enjoy life more etc. That would be an interesting video

🔥Thank you so much

This "emotions=evil, rational thinking=good" thing never made sense to me. It's rather two completely different dimensions - at least. Probably even more since rational thinking and emotional feeling don't exclude each other. I feel great satisfaction whenever I understand a new interrelation - and whenever I can make someone else understand a thing (s)he previously didn't.

Interesting and helpful. Free of BS mumbo jumbo. This talk have some deep truth and guidance in it. Thank you.