In cognitive reappraisal, you find the space to rigorously examine the nature of an event prior to levying judgment or being overwhelmed by the salience of an emotion. It allows you to press the pause button on your emotional life and leverage the prefrontal cortex, the locus of rationality in the brain, as a tuning fork for the truth.
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