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Did you know emotions only last about 90 seconds?

Neuroscience says that when a feeling pops up, your body’s response is actually super brief. After that, it’s not the emotion itself that sticks around, but the story we tell ourselves about it. That’s why sometimes emotions can feel like they last forever — we keep replaying things in our minds, fueling the feeling. The trick isn’t to push emotions away, but to notice when we’re the ones keeping them alive with our thoughts. Ignoring our feelings doesn’t make them go away — it actually gives them more power. When we push them aside, we’re still focusing on them, just in a different way. The key is to acknowledge how we feel, without judgment & let it pass naturally. Emotions are like waves — they come and go & we don’t have to hold on to them.