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Emotional Chain Reactions

Author
Jana and Jason Shelfer
Published
Wed 03 Sep 2025
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Emotional Chain Reactions: Tame Your Triggers and Find Your Freedom (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever feel like a small frustration can spiral into a huge meltdown? 🤯 In this incredibly vulnerable Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana share the scientific secret to taming your emotions—a six-second rule that changed everything for them.

This is a powerful self-help and personal development episode packed with "nuggets of wisdom" to help you get off the emotional rollercoaster:

  • The Six-Second Rule: Discover the scientific fact that emotions are simply temporary chemical bursts in your brain. Learn how giving yourself just six seconds to process a feeling can stop a chain reaction before it starts.
  • Stop Stacking Emotions: We expose the destructive habit of building "evidence logs"—collecting reasons to justify your feelings. Learn why this pattern, like bubble gum with juice pockets, creates unnecessary drama and how to interrupt it.
  • A Real-Life Meltdown: Listen to Jana’s raw, personal story of how exhaustion, hunger, and stress led to an emotional outburst. More importantly, see how Jason's calm, non-judgmental response broke the chain and restored peace.
  • Priming for Success: Understand how priming your mindset with positive beliefs creates a resilient baseline that helps you "let go" of negative emotions and not take them so personally.
  • The Power of Grace: This episode is a compassionate reminder that you don't need to be perfect. The goal isn't to never feel angry or sad, but to recognize the feeling, give yourself grace, and choose your response instead of reacting automatically.

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How to manage emotional triggers. What is the six-second rule for emotions? How to stop emotional stacking. Dealing with emotional outbursts. The science of emotions. How to improve emotional resilience. Overcoming anger and frustration. Self-care practices for emotional well-being. How to respond instead of react. How emotions affect relationships. What is the scientific definition of an emotion? How long does an emotion last in the brain? What is emotional stacking? How can I stop overreacting to small things? What is the difference between responding and reacting? How can I build emotional resilience? Why is it important to feel your emotions

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