Barbara Fredrickson: Positive Emotions Transform Us

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Summary

TLDRCette vidéo aborde l'impact des émotions positives sur notre transformation personnelle. Elle explique que nous renouvelons nos cellules chaque jour et que nos émotions influencent ce processus. En cultivant des émotions positives, notamment à travers la méditation de bienveillance, nous pouvons changer notre caractère et améliorer notre bien-être. Les recherches montrent que ces émotions augmentent notre résilience, notre santé et nos relations. En fin de compte, vivre des émotions positives nous aide à prospérer et à nous épanouir dans la vie.

Takeaways

  • 🌱 Les émotions positives transforment notre être.
  • 🔄 Nous renouvelons nos cellules chaque jour.
  • 🧘‍♀️ La méditation de bienveillance cultive des émotions positives.
  • 💪 Les émotions positives augmentent notre résilience.
  • ❤️ Elles améliorent nos relations avec les autres.
  • 📈 Des changements significatifs se voient après trois mois.
  • 🩺 Elles peuvent réduire les symptômes de douleur.
  • 💖 Les émotions positives influencent notre santé globale.
  • 🌼 Florir signifie s'épanouir dans la vie.
  • 💡 Suivre les moments positifs nous aide à prospérer.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:07:36

    La deuxième vérité fondamentale sur les émotions positives est qu'elles nous transforment pour le mieux, en révélant le meilleur de nous-mêmes. Chaque jour, nos cellules se renouvellent, et ce processus est influencé par nos émotions. En augmentant notre consommation quotidienne d'émotions positives, nous pouvons changer notre façon d'être dans le monde. Cependant, changer nos émotions positives de manière durable nécessite un effort continu, semblable à un changement de mode de vie. La méditation de bienveillance, qui consiste à cultiver des sentiments chaleureux envers soi-même et les autres, peut aider à augmenter ces émotions positives. Des études montrent que cette pratique peut améliorer la pleine conscience, renforcer les relations et accroître la résilience. En fin de compte, en augmentant nos émotions positives, nous devenons des versions plus fortes et plus connectées de nous-mêmes, et cela peut même influencer notre biologie au niveau cellulaire. Nous avons tous la capacité de prospérer et de nous épanouir, et il est essentiel de se concentrer sur les moments positifs pour éclairer notre chemin vers la floraison.

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Video Q&A

  • Comment les émotions positives nous transforment-elles ?

    Les émotions positives changent notre façon d'être et améliorent notre bien-être général.

  • Quel est le lien entre les émotions et le renouvellement cellulaire ?

    Nos émotions influencent le rythme et la forme du renouvellement cellulaire, ce qui peut changer notre être à un niveau fondamental.

  • Qu'est-ce que la méditation de bienveillance ?

    C'est une pratique qui consiste à cultiver des émotions positives envers soi-même et les autres.

  • Quels sont les bénéfices de la méditation de bienveillance ?

    Elle augmente les émotions positives, améliore les relations et renforce la résilience.

  • Combien de temps faut-il pour voir des changements dans les émotions positives ?

    Des changements significatifs peuvent être observés après environ trois mois de pratique.

  • Comment les émotions positives affectent-elles notre santé ?

    Elles peuvent réduire les symptômes de douleur et améliorer la santé globale.

  • Qu'est-ce que le 'vagal tone' ?

    C'est un indicateur de la santé du système nerveux autonome, qui peut être amélioré par des émotions positives.

  • Pourquoi est-il important de cultiver des émotions positives ?

    Elles nous aident à prospérer et à faire face aux défis de la vie.

  • Comment les émotions positives influencent-elles nos relations ?

    Elles améliorent la confiance et la chaleur dans nos relations avec les autres.

  • Que signifie 'florir' dans le contexte des émotions ?

    Florir signifie s'épanouir et vivre pleinement, en contraste avec le fait de languir.

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    The second core truth about positive emotions is that they transform us for the better.
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    They bring out the best in us.
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    Now one interesting fact about all living things and for all of you sitting here today
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    while you're sitting here today new cells are being born within you.
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    Scientists that have estimated that on average across all different body systems you could
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    say that people replace one percent of their cells each day.
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    That's another one-percent tomorrow about thirty-percent by next month and next season
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    one-hundred-percent; that's one way of looking at it.
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    Now.
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    certainly that differs across, taste buds change faster than bones, but still on average
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    we're turning over like that a lot.
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    And maybe it's no coincidence that it takes three months or so to learn a new habit or
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    to make a lifestyle change; maybe we need to be teaching our new cells we can't teach
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    an old cell new tricks perhaps.
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    But one of the things I think is even more exciting is that the latest science suggests
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    that the pace of cell renewal and the form of cell renewal doesn't just follow some predetermined
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    DNA script, that our emotions affect that level of cellular change.
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    And so that's an idea that's completely consistent with the broader lesson within my work is
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    that positive emotions in broadening our awareness or opening our awareness over time change
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    who we are in the future.
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    Now, what this suggests is that if we increase our daily diet of positive emotions maybe
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    we need as many as the fruits and vegetables mark which keeps going higher and higher all
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    the time if we increase our daily diet of positive emotions we change who we are.
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    We change our ways of being in the world in important ways.
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    Now one of the things that I've come to realize is that changing people's trait or characteralogical
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    positive emotions can be done but it's not easy.
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    It's akin to making a lifestyle change.
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    I think the best metaphor for this is moving a river.
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    It's more possible than moving a mountain but it's not something that you can do just
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    on a whim and just you know, flip a switch and it's changed.
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    It's something that you do with continual reinforcement and effort.
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    And with that in mind actually Sonja Lyubormirsky's work suggests that it takes as much willpower
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    for a lifestyle change effort and control as does lowering your cholesterol or losing
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    weight.
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    Okay, but with that in mind I was very much inspired by some of the newest research on
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    meditation to look at how people might use meditation to elevate trait or characterological
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    positive emotion.
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    And in particular I've become interested in a form of meditation called loving kindness
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    meditation, sometimes called meta, and what it does is it asks people to cultivate that
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    warm, tender feeling that you already have towards a loved one or even a pet and really
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    learn to self generate that emotion and direct it towards yourself and direct it towards
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    people you normally wouldn't feel that toward, a neutral person or people you have difficulties
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    with and eventually to direct it to all people and sentient beings on earth.
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    Now, what I've learned from my research on love and kindness meditation is that positive
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    emotions can change.
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    This is what I call move the river slide, that positive emotions as people learn this
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    technique over the course these are novice mediators, over the course of eight weeks,
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    their positive emotions subtly shift upwards.
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    It's not a whopping increase but it's statistically significant and it yields really important
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    changes in these people's lives months later.
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    What we learned is that as people's positive emotions increase, their day in day out positive
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    emotions that you could describe as their trait positive emotions as they increase it
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    builds resources.
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    One of the resources is built is people's mindfulness, their ability to stay in the
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    present moment and attend to subtle differences.
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    Their close and trusting warm relationships with others are improved over the course of
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    three months; these are things that we measured before they took the meditation workshop and
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    then couple weeks after it ended and we see improvements there.
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    We see improvements in people's resilience their ability to bounce back from difficulties
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    and effectively manage their environmental challenges.
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    We also see reductions in people's headache aches, pains, stomach pains, or self-reported
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    health symptoms and in our newest study we've actually found changes in heart rate variability
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    that suggests that we've increased vagal tone.
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    So what I want to argue with this work is that positive emotions transform us for the
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    better it's like that butterfly coming out of its cocoon.
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    If we increase our daily diet of positive emotions we come out three months later being
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    better strong more resilient more socially connected versions of ourselves.
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    And what I've, where I'm going in my future work is to look at how that is happening just
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    at a level that we recognize in our behaviors that we can self report on questionnaires
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    but also how it's changing us at a cellular level, how these increases in positive emotions
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    cascade forward and literally change the way our genes are transcribed and shape who we
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    are at a really fundamental basic level.
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    One thing that is true of all of us just like all living things: we can all either languish,
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    barely holding on to life or flourish becoming ripe with beauty and possibility and remarkably
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    resilient to hard times.
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    And one of the things that we found is that the degree to which people experience positive
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    emotions in their lives predict whether people will be languishing, flourishing.
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    And one way to think of this is that we don't have to get up in the morning and think "I
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    don't want", or "I want to languish today," "I want to flourish today."
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    We need to be thinking about the micromoments and follow the light of the positive notions.
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    Let positive emotions and positivity light our way to the path of flourishing.
Tags
  • émotions positives
  • méditation
  • bienveillance
  • renouvellement cellulaire
  • résilience
  • santé
  • relations
  • épanouissement
  • transformation personnelle
  • bien-être