Deliberately scaring ourselves can calm the brain, leading to a “recalibration” of our emotions
This study could suggest that inducing high arousal via exposure to negative stimuli may be a substrate for a generation of interventions that do not work to proximally decrease, but rather to increase, arousal in people whose goal is to increase positive affect and feel ‘wonderful’,” the researchers concluded.
—Voluntary arousing negative experiences (VANE): Why we like to be scared
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