<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Think of your mood/emotion regulation (mood being a slight emotion - a slight feeling being a micromood) as like a thermostat that keeps you from getting too far either way. Sometimes it loses control and we go out of control in a rage or a rape. But it will return to its set place if nothing is happening to create a mood or emotion. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">There are statistics and then there are statistics. Who imagined that the number of muscles involved had anything to do with anything?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">In a duh your jaw would be hanging down and you would truly look like the village idiot.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">As an aside: people are very poor at knowing how tense they are. Measure the tenseness in the neck muscles and ask the person how tense they are: poor correlation. Usually more tense than they report. (for tenseness try the Jacobson relaxation technique - works well for stress and for going to sleep if you have difficulty with that). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">No charge for the advice. bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 1:46 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8844500607731002364"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8844500607731002364WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">FAking pleasantness and becoming pleasant? </span>..<span style="color:black">and if you cease your 'faking' you will regress to your mean, which is grumpy. </span>…<span style="color:black">bill </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Easy solution: don’t regress to the mean. Regress only to the nice. Then you won’t be grumpy.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Oh wait, you meant mean the statistical sense. OK disregard all.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">It does make one wonder: you have heard that old (and probably false) notion that it takes 17 facial muscles to smile and 31 to frown (or some such nonsense) well how does they figure? Whoever started that silly notion, what did they do to get those numbers? And if they wants to go that route, how many muscles does it take to make the duh face? NONE! Relax every facial muscle, try it, right now, get a mirror, relax everything. Your spouse will look at you and say “Ok what’s this about, why are we making duh faces at ourselves in the mirror?” I really don’t consider that a good reason to go around looking like that, arguing that it conserves energy. You know it would be: Hey, spike, what’s with you? Me: Nothing, its my resting duh face.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Nope. Not buyin it, me lad.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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