Emotional Regulation

Naming how one state led to another forces your thinking brain to look at your emotional brain from the outside. That's cognitive reappraisal, one of the best-studied ways to regulate emotion. You stop being inside the reaction and start reading it.

Sources: Ochsner, K; Lieberman, M

The front of your brain and your alarm system are working together instead of fighting. Your heart rhythm is flexible and you can feel the emotion without being run by it. This is the state that training aims for.

Sources: Thayer, J; Ochsner, K