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Ethan Kross is a world-renowned authority on conscious mind control. Kross is the director of the Laboratory for Emotion and Self-Control at the University of Michigan and the Ross School of Business.

Regardless of how bad things appear or how negative your thoughts might be, putting a little distance between you and your chatter will make life easier. By changing your surroundings or by changing your perspective, you can achieve this. In the end, try to see your problem in the context of the big picture; this will make it appear smaller. Write about your thoughts. Negative experiences can be relieved by writing them down. Addressing yourself in the second person helps create distance between you and whatever upsets you. Hence, the next time you experience negative thoughts, take 20 minutes to write them out. Without a doubt, you will feel relieved by it.

"Many rituals also provide us with a sense of order, because we perform behaviors we can control."

"If we scan the situation and conclude that we don’t have the wherewithal needed to handle things, that leads us to appraise the stress as a threat."

"The voices of culture influence our parents’ inner voices, which in turn influence our own, and so on through the many cultures and generations that combine to tune our minds."

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