A Simple Way To Instantly Reduce Sadness (M)
The strategy was inspired by a Pixar movie called “Inside Out”.
Thinking of sadness as a person can help to create distance from it and reduce the pain, new research finds.
People who anthropomorphised their emotions felt psychologically detached from them.
Some people in the study imagined their sadness as ‘a little girl walking slowly with her head down,’ others saw ‘a pale person with no smile,’ or ‘someone with grey hair and sunken eyes.’
The strategy was inspired by a Pixar movie called “Inside Out”, an animation which is set inside the mind of a young girl named Riley.
In the film, each of five emotions is represented by a separate character.
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