This video discusses how we may gain control over our emotions, and utilize the impact of facial expressions and thoughts to change our emotional state.
Paul Ekman discusses how discovering something unexpected can be exciting, such as his finding that simulating the facial expressions of a particular emotion can help to self-generate that emotion. He explains how psychologists use this knowledge to help people become aware of their emotions and how to change them.
Ekman explains that our emotions evolved as a system that reacts quickly to help us survive, but this can lead us to experience emotions when they aren’t productive or useful. He discusses how thinking about our emotions will help us master them, but this is not what nature intended.