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Re:Can you think yourself into a different person? by rubidium on Thursday November 19, 2015 @08:26AM (#10594576)
Emphasis on thinking is often misplaced. It's pretty much impossible to "think" yourself happy when sad, or think yourself into being a competent person when you think you're worthless. But deciding to do some particular action can go a long way.

From the wiki page of one of my favorite modern pysch methods:

"Behavior is made up of these four components: acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology... We have considerable control or choice over the first two of these, and little ability to directly choose the latter two. As these four components are closely intertwined, the choices we make in our thinking and acting greatly affect our feeling and physiology." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasser%27s_choice_theory)

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Re:Can you think yourself into a different person? by thelettere on Thursday November 19, 2015 @09:13AM (#10594832)
True a million times over. In most contexts, trying to repress your emotions (emotion or expressive suppression) is the most damaging response you can have. It destroys executive performance and cognitive function and chronic suppression is associated with a host of disturbances (especially depression) and is even correlated with suicidal ideation.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/emo/15/1/78/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2839199/

http://spl.stanford.edu/pdfs/2003/Gross%20&%20John.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sltb.12076/abstra...

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Re:Can you think yourself into a different person? by richardboegli on Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:11PM (#10595950)
Read about emotional intelligence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence

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