‘Our misery or happiness depends on how we react to external events and internal thoughts. We judge and label everything based on our reactions. Sometimes our reactions are so strong that they destroy us.’ (17th Karmapa. The Future is Now: Timely Advice for Creating a Better World)
Use an example from the movie (Wait Till You’re Older or After Earth) or with an example from your own life, and discuss how emotional reactions influence how we react to an external event, and the consequences of having such reactions. How the concepts of Mindsight and Neuroplasticity explain the possibility of changing the established emotional reactions or habitual ways of seeing or reacting?
