Epi 295: Catching Feelings: Your Emotions Are Contagious
Did you know that emotions are contagious? We’ve all burst into laughter because someone is laughing, or maybe you cry when someone else starts to cry, even when you don’t have a reason to. We all take on the emotions around us—which is a different spin to catching feelings…
Today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into how easy it is to become the emotional energy around you and how the negatives impact you. I’m handing over a tool to help you know when an emotion is yours to carry and when it’s not. We’ll wrap it all up with how to shield yourself from catching feelings we would rather not touch.
This is a different spin on feeling our way through a moment.
00:00 Intro
02:05 What catching feelings really means
02:25 What an emotion is
04:19 How Emotional Contagion happens and your mirror neurons
06:45 Emotions are impulses. They need a stimulus
09:48 You mirror other’s emotions/energy
10:47 Emotional feedback plays a role in how we show up to a moment
11:50 You do become the energy/emotions you are around
13:41 How other’s negative energy impacts us
20:49 Who is most likely to be affected by other people’s emotions
21:37 The life lesson in all of this and the questions you must ask yourself
24:28 A tool for understanding how much emotion you take on from others
28:55 How we shield ourselves from other’s emotions
30:32 A tool to help you know if you are taking on other’s emotions
35:20 Six ways to shield yourself
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