From: The Washington Post
2 Things You Can Do To Make Experiences Less Painful, According To Experts
October 30, 2025
Stress, challenges and failure are a part of life, but how we emotionally respond to them can shape our future.
As Shakespeare put it, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” — an observation that reflects the power of an emotion-regulation strategy psychologists call cognitive reappraisal or reframing.
Cognitive reappraisal is “magical” because it showcases “an almost infinite capacity that humans have to change their own emotional experiences,” said Iris Mauss, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.
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