Understand Your Feelings and How to Deal With Them

Control the flow of your thoughts by taking an optimistic route toward the destination of positive feelings

Our thoughts tend to flow toward dark destinations, leaving us with unpleasant feelings. But if you can catch hold of your thinking, you can direct your thoughts toward sunnier destinations. Fizkes/Shutterstock

Although we experience feelings constantly, most people have a sketchy understanding of this subject at best. This is why Ted Talks have attracted millions of YouTube viewers who want to learn how to deal with or prevent their unpleasant feelings.

If you were to condense those Ted Talks into just one sentence that simplifies how your brain’s limbic system affects how you feel, here’s what it would say: Your thoughts about the events in your life arouse emotions that when processed by your body, provoke the feelings you experience.