060. Emotions Equal Energy

What if the feeling you woke up with this morning has already decided what you'll think, say, and do today, and you never agreed to it?

Some may roll their eyes at the word "energy" but the science actually says different about the energy, emotion, and thoughts we play on repeat. Now let's take that information and use it to build our identity on purpose.

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Books

• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
• Super Attractor by Gabrielle Bernstein
• The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner, a practical beginner's guide to EFT tapping
• The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory by Stephen W. Porges

Research Referenced

• Emotion labeling and the brain: Lieberman, M. D., et al. (2007). "Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli."
• Psychological Science. London taxi driver study: Maguire, E. A., et al. (2000). "Navigation-Related Structural Change in the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• EFT tapping for PTSD: Church, D., et al. (2023). Systematic review and meta-analysis of Clinical EFT for PTSD. Frontiers in Psychology. frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1195286/full
• Shark electroreception: "How Shark Electroreceptors Work." Surfer Today. surfertoday.com/environment/how-shark-electroreceptors-work

Learn More

• Lisa Feldman Barrett on emotions and the body budget,
• The One You Feed podcast: oneyoufeed.net/lisa-feldman-barrett