Ask Mark 6.10 - Changing our responses to our surroundings and emotions
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 30/05/2016

Ask Mark 6.10 - Changing our responses to our surrounding and emotions

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: I have kind of asked this at the beginning of the course and after going through it and learning what I did, I feel that I’m more cognizant of my mental states and a bit more connected to what is going on during different events throughout the day.

I still would like to know if any specific method or practice exists that an individual can use on their own to change the way they respond to their surroundings and their emotions? You used the example of feeling fear when one approaches the edge of a cliff but what if I wanted to feel excited, and if something where to cause sadness change it to an accepting of the situation? I feel like I should be able to change my response to my feeling with conditioning but I was hoping if you knew a better practice.