I think this can be generalized to other emotional responses. The implicit, non-verbal parts of your brain do a hell of a lot of processing in order to output e

I think this can be generalized to other emotional responses. The implicit, non-verbal parts of your brain do a hell of a lot of processing in order to output emotions. And they do that for a reason - stress to prepare yourself for action, anger to deal with conflict, joy to share good things with others, etc. A hell of a lot of people tend to try to fight the symptoms of negative emotions, rather than sussing out the cause and dissolving the root. In some sense, "how do I cope with stress" or "how do I deal with my anxiety" is the wrong question. The right question looks more like "what is my anxiety trying to tell me?"