Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

We think thoughts, we feel emotions, and we run physiological loops to what we're thinking and feeling.

So let's say I'm going to think a thought like you did.

I said, think of somebody you're not happy with.

And you went and you thought about it and then you felt it and we could see it in your body.

So you thought the thought, oh, that's the person, I'm mad at them.

And then it's like, oh, I'm really mad at them.

You can see, you feel, I'm really mad at them.

And then you either act on it or you don't act on it.

But if you simply observe it, it will loop right through just like a muscle reflex.

It's an emotional reflex, less than 90 seconds.

Which means, and everybody's saying, oh, I can stay mad for a whole lot longer than 90 seconds.

But what you're doing then is you're rethinking the thoughts that's re-stimulating the emotional loop, re-stimulating the physiological response.

And it just goes on forever.

Well, I enjoy it.

I enjoy it.

Even if I'm angry.

Thank God I'm capable.

I am wired to be mad.

I am wired to be angry.

I'm wired to push things away and say, that is not okay.