# Lisa Feldman Barrett - Your Emotions Aren't What You Think

An episode of [Mind & Life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1504112670), 15 Jan 2021, 1 h 15 min.

Audio: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pefutx/LFB_011321_AIR.mp3

We launch our second season featuring a conversation with psychologist, neuroscientist, and emotion researcher Lisa Feldman Barrett. She and Wendy discuss a broad range of topics about the mind, including: • her unexpected path into studying emotions; • how our brains construct and predict our reality; • the brain's essential role in regulating the body; • emotions as interpretations of our bodily state; • how our past shapes and filters our present experience; • the difference between affective feelings (mood) and emotions; • our capacity to influence our own emotions; • deconstructing our experience through mindfulness; • how to improve our emotional lives; • connections with Buddhist theories of mind; • implications for our understanding of the self; • how we regulate not only our own, but others' nervous systems; • and how stress and modernity might lead to clinging to entrenched views. Full show notes and resources

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