Bioenergetics also makes us experience the benefits of crying, for example, in a contained environment and facing the therapist who is ready and prepared to contain. The benefits of being able to draw from our box of emotions (body?) What content is there many times for years .. or most of their lives saved without emerging and causing pain and chronic pathologies ... Small controlled releases .. is like for a small volcanic eruptions that avoid the big bang ..
NEW YORK .- The rigorous study of emotion regulation is a relatively new research area and, for obvious reasons, has concentrated more on the unruly passions in domesticated varieties. After all, the misguided emotions define many mental disorders, the restraint is typically associated with good mental health, from childhood to old age.
However, social functioning is a different matter. Recent studies have found that people develop a variety of psychological tools to deal with what they say in social situations, and these techniques often become unconscious and affect interactions in unintended ways.
The better people understand their own patterns, rather they will be able to see why some emotionally charged interactions go wrong.
Most scientists agree that the range of possible emotional expressions of a person is a matter of innate temperament. Growth is, in a sense, learning to temper in a way to get help from others and do not torment themselves same.
Poker Face
Psychologists regulation strategies divided into two broad categories: prevention, which occur before the emotion is fully felt, and responsive, when they arrive. The best known of the latter category, and one of the first to be learned, is suppression. Clog boy smiling with his hand when a classmate does something embarrassing, eventually, many become more experienced, masking surprise, alarm and even anger with a poker face.
suppression, which is clearly valuable in certain situations, has a social cost. In 2003, a study by Stanford University, USA, found that people who had indicated that they maintained a poker face to discuss after seeing a documentary on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed higher levels of stress in conversation .
In another study, published last year, the psychologists followed by interviews and questionnaires to 278 men and women who joined the faculty. Those values \u200b\u200bwere higher suppression of emotions were the most also had difficulty making friends.
"An individual who responds to this transition to become emotionally cautious in its early days," they wrote, is more likely to miss the opportunity to make friends.
"One reason we're so attuned to the emotions of others is that, when a real emotion, it tells us something important about what matters to the person," said James J. Gross, a psychologist at Stanford University.
added that when one suppresses or attenuates, people think: "Damn! If you're like us, does not care, then the same things that we care."
preventive techniques can work in a more subtle form. One of them is the fun, reflective, focus on the good and ignore the bad.
A study conducted in 2009 by Derek Isaacowitz, Brandeis University, found that people over 55 are much more likely than those 25 years or less to focus on positive images when they are cranky. Young, meanwhile, are more likely to orient to negative images when they feel angry or depressed.
But more surprising is that Isaacowitz another study found that older people are twice more likely than younger women to be "fast controllers," people whose mood bounces quickly, sometimes within minutes after brooding over memories of being depressed.
"We have found that, in general, older people tend to regulate their emotions more quickly, and are not as motivated to explore the negative information and engage in negative images, as are younger people," he said Isaacowitz.
When negative is positive express
Besides avoiding the stress of suppressing those feelings, they also have a social purpose that can generate empathy
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The Benefits of Blowing Your Top
Polishing your box of emotions
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06mind.html
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: July 5, 2010
Mind Polishing
The longing for President Obama to vent some fury at oil executives or bankers may run far deeper than politics. Millions of people live or work with exasperatingly cool customers, who seem to be missing an emotional battery, or perhaps saving their feelings for a special occasion. People who — unlike the mining operators in the gulf — have a blowout preventer that works all too well.
Sang-froid has its place, especially during a crisis; but so does Sigmund Freud, who described the potential downside of suppressed passions. Those exhortations being directed at the president could be just as easily be turned on countless co-workers, spouses, friends (or oneself):
Lose it. Just once. See what happens.
“One reason we’re so attuned to others’ emotions is that, when it’s a real emotion, it tells us something important about what matters to that person,” said James J. Gross, a psychologist at Stanford University. When it’s suppressed or toned down, he added, “people think, damn it, you’re not like us, you don’t care about the same things we do.”
Rigorous study of what psychologists call emotion regulation is fairly new, and for obvious reasons has focused far more on untamed passions than on the domesticated variety. Runaway emotion defines many mental disorders, after all; restraint is typically associated with good mental health, from childhood through later life.
Yet social functioning is a different matter. Research in the past few years has found that people develop a variety of psychological tools to manage what they express in social situations, and those techniques often become subconscious, affecting interactions in unintended ways. The better that people understand their own patterns, the more likely they are to see why some emotionally charged interactions go awry — whether from too little control or, in the president’s case, perhaps too much.
Most scientists agree that a person’s range of possible emotional expression is a matter of inborn temperament. Growing up is, in one sense, a living education in how to manage that temperament so it elicits help from others and does not torment oneself.
“As we grow, the prefrontal areas of the brain develop, and we become more biologically able to control our impulses as well,” said Stefan G. Hofmann, a professor of psychology at Boston University.
Psychologists divide regulation strategies into two broad categories: pre-emptive, occurring before an emotion is fully felt; and responsive, coming afterward. The best known of the latter category, and one of the first learned, is simple suppression. First-graders will cover a smile with their hand when a classmate does something embarrassing; in time, many become far more adept, reflexively masking surprise, alarm, even rage with a poker face.
Suppression, while clearly valuable in some situations (no laughing at funerals, please), has social costs that are all too familiar to those who know its cold touch. In one 2003 Stanford study, researchers found that people instructed to wear a poker face while discussing a documentary about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made especially stressful conversation partners.
In another, published last year, psychologists followed 278 men and women as they entered college, giving questionnaires and conducting interviews. Those who scored highest on measures of emotion suppression had the hardest time making friends.
“An individual who responds to the college transition by becoming emotionally guarded in the first few days,” the authors wrote, will most likely miss opportunities for friendships.
Pre-emptive techniques can work in more subtle ways. One of these is simple diversion, reflexively focusing on the good and ignoring the bad — rereading the praise in an evaluation and ignoring or dismissing any criticism. A 2009 study led by Derek Isaacowitz of Brandeis University found that people over 55 were much more likely than those aged 25 and under to focus on positive images when in a bad mood — thereby buoying their spirits. The younger group was more likely to focus on negative images when feeling angry or down.
More striking, Dr. Isaacowitz found in another study that older people were twice as likely as younger ones to be “rapid regulators” — people whose mood bounced back quickly, sometimes within minutes, after ruminating on depressing memories.
“We have found in general that older people tend to regulate their emotions faster, and are not as motivated to explore negative information, to engage negative images, as younger people are,” Dr. Isaacowitz said. “And it makes some sense, that younger adults would explore the negative side of things, that they need to and maybe want to experience them — to experience life — as they develop their own strategies to regulate.”
Socially speaking, in short, the ability to shrug off feelings of disgust or outrage may suit an older group but strike younger people as inauthentic, even callous.
Finally, people may choose the emotions they feel far more often than they are aware — and those choices, too, can trip up social interactions. A series of recent experiments led by Maya Tamir, a psychologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Boston College, has found That Subconsciously people feel emotions first Themselves to Believe They Will Be Useful to Them MOST Anticipated in an situation. These instrumental Researchers call the emotions.
Benedict Carey The New York Times
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