Doctor Mike

Yeah, it's certainly not to eliminate emotions.

You should never eliminate emotions because they all exist for a reason.

It's to manage your emotions.

And that's a whole field of self-management called metacognition, where you want to move the experience of your emotions from the limbic system into the prefrontal cortex by being aware of them.

That's what Vipassana meditation is intended to do.

That's what prayer or petition, that's what journaling is supposed to do.

That's what good therapy is supposed to do.

is to make you aware of yourself and your emotions such that when you're feeling very intense emotions, you say, oh, oh, that's it.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Mike is feeling kind of pretty ticked off right now.

And why is that?

That's usually because of this.

And, you know, good cognitive behavioral therapy is supposed to do exactly that.

So you don't want less emotionality.

You want more emotional control through understanding.

Yeah.

Which is really interesting.

I mean, there's new research.

Have you seen that stuff on how rumination and serotonin work?