PART 1 WHAT EMOTIONS ARE

• Emotions are affected by your survival mechanism.
• The 'ego' is a part of your psyche that impacts your emotions.
• Negative emotions can be hard to deal with due to the mechanism behind emotions.
• The survival mechanism in the brain is responsible for the bias towards negativity.
• In their quest for survival and procreation, our ancestors must have faced death hundreds or thousands of times.
• Despite modern safety standards, the survival mechanism in the brain has not significantly changed, still scanning the environment for potential threats.
• Some parts of the brain have become obsolete due to changes in society.
• The brain still gives significantly more weight to negative events than to positive ones.
• Fear of rejection is an example of a bias towards negativity.
• Rejection can be painful because the brain is still programmed to perceive rejection as a threat to survival.
• One single criticism can often outweigh hundreds of positive ones, leading an author with fifty 5-star reviews to feel terrible when they receive a single 1-star review.
• The fear of rejection can lead to over-dramatization of events, interpreting a criticism as a threat to survival.
• To overcome the bias towards negativity, it is necessary to reprogram the mind, using our ability to use our thoughts to shape our reality and interpret events in a more empowering way.
• While it’s important to have an effective survival mechanism, it’s also your responsibility to separate real threats from imaginary ones.
• The survival mechanism in the brain is responsible for the bias towards negativity.
• The probability of an individual's birth was extremely low, requiring all preceding generations to survive long enough to procreate.
• In their quest for survival and procreation, our ancestors must have faced death hundreds or thousands of times.
• Despite modern safety standards, the survival mechanism in the brain has not significantly changed, still scanning the environment for potential threats.
• Some parts of the brain have become obsolete due to changes in society.
• The brain still gives significantly more weight to negative events than to positive ones.
• Fear of rejection is an example of a bias towards negativity.
• In the past, being rejected from your tribe would significantly reduce your chances of survival, leading to the development of a fear of rejection.
• Rejection can be painful because it activates the survival mechanism in the brain, which is still programmed to perceive rejection as a threat to survival.
• The fear of rejection can lead to over-dramatization of events.
• To overcome the bias towards negativity, it is necessary to reprogram the mind through the use of thoughts to shape reality and interpret events in a more empowering way.
• The survival mechanism in the brain is responsible for the bias towards negativity.
• The probability of an individual's birth was extremely low, requiring all preceding generations to survive long enough to procreate.
• In their quest for survival and procreation, our ancestors must have faced death hundreds or thousands of times.
• Despite modern safety standards, the survival mechanism in the brain has not significantly changed, still scanning the environment for potential threats.
• Some parts of the brain have become obsolete due to changes in society.
• The brain still gives significantly more weight to negative events than to positive ones.
• Fear of rejection is an example of a bias towards negativity.
• In the past, being rejected from your tribe would significantly reduce your chances of survival, leading to the development of a fear of rejection.
• Rejection can be painful because it activates the survival mechanism in the brain, which is still programmed to perceive rejection as a threat to survival.
• The fear of rejection can lead to over-dramatization of events.
• To overcome the bias towards negativity, it is necessary to reprogram the mind through the use of thoughts to shape reality and interpret events in a more empowering way.