Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism, Buddhism

4.8 • 886 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi there. Thanks for joining. My name is Josh. I am the pastor of
0:06.2	Darmapunx New York. The guiding teacher since 2005. This is our Tuesday evening online class. We have a half day workshop Sunday, May 21st at Center Yoga. The link will be posted soon and June 17th in Philadelphia, we're doing a day long.
0:37.0	If you look at the Garmapunks NYC.com website, the info will be there and hope to see you. If you'd like to
0:50.6	support my work, the Venmo is Darma Punks, NYC,
0:58.6	Darma Punks, as always with an X, and PayPal is on the website and on the podcast page and the Patreon information is there as well. So thank you for that. Tonight, a topic that I haven't talked
1:20.8	about in the last five or six years so I thought I would dip back into it.
1:27.0	Emotion contagion, the tendency to unconsciously synchronize with the emotions of others, especially individuals who have strong
1:42.0	effectual states, strong emotional states,
1:45.2	can influence and change our emotional states,
1:51.2	disregulating or leading to times where we feel exhausted after encountering certain individuals or going into certain entering certain work environments.
2:07.4	So it's human nature to bond and seek will being by an emotional,
2:17.0	sorry, an automatic process called mirroring.
2:22.0	We are constantly as being signaling our internal
2:28.9	states whether we feel relaxed and safe and trusting or distracted or anxious or fearful.
2:37.0	Our internal states are being signaled to others by, well, facial expressions, body language, gestures, tone of voice, posture, and others who are
2:51.7	around us, if they're attuned, will unconsciously, this is not a conscious process by and large, will detect our emotional state and they're mirror neurons which literally do what it sounds like they do.
3:10.0	They are neurons that in the parietal lobe are set up to stimulate the same responses in us that we see in other people.
3:15.0	There's a point to stimulate the same responses in us that we see in other people.
3:22.0	And there's a point for this mirroring where in essence we start to mirror or imitate
3:30.0	the emotional states of others. It's what allows us to synchronize our nervous
3:36.6	systems. It starts from childhood when a mother holds a baby on her chest or
3:42.0	looks at the baby. The baby looks at the mother's
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