Unit 2: Self-Awareness — Your Superpower

Noticing Internal Experiences

Our emotional world — the inner state that includes thought patterns, emotions, and implicit biases — has an enormous impact on our well-being. And yet so many of the events in our emotional world happen without our awareness.

Name It to Tame It

Labeling emotions for what they are — sadness, anger, frustration — can neutralize them, taking away their power to control us.

Fact vs Fiction

Human brains are wired to make sense of things. But that often leaves us making up stories that magnify our anxieties and fears with worst-case scenario plots. The brain’s “negativity bias” will most often conjure the catastrophic “what if?” scenario.