Discuss And Analysis The Emotion Regulation Thinkings In Sentimental Theories In Internal Classics

This article discuss and analysis the thinking of emotion regulations in the sentimental theories from the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics. The central theory of sentimental theories is that sentimentions can controlling each other. There are correlations among one emotion and others.Firstly, this thesis conducts a research on the course of the development of the ancient sentimental theories which can be divided into two stapes: rudimentary stage and taking shape and development stage.About the thinking of emotion regulations in the sentimental theories on rudimentary stage, this article mainly talks about Confucianism and Taoism which had a deep influence on Internal Classics. In the coping model of emotion regulation proposed by Lazarrus and Folkman, based on the individual attempting from exterior or the internal change event, they divide the emotion regulation strategy into two kinds of types: problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.We can see a series of remarks from Confucianism, the emotion regulation strategy of Confucianism was set up on problem-focused coping.Compared with the emotion regulation strategy of Confucianism, such as enterprising and positive regulation, the Taoism emphasizes"inaction"The Tao mainly achieves the goal through changing people's cognitive. Such as pointing to change or modify the internal events, to reduce the emotional press, the individual's behavior or cognitive emotion regulation adjustment strategy are the strategy of emotion-focused coping.About the thinking of emotion regulations in the sentimental theories on its formation and developing stages, comments should be divided into the following parts: emotion's regulation of emotion; Cognition's regulation of emotion; attention's regulation of emotion and personality's regulation of emotion.In the first part, one point can be made by comparing it with the two basic regulation strategies in the Gross's process model of emotion regulation: if cognitive reappraisal regulates emotion by changes of recognition and understanding, it's a strategy of cognition adjustment and if emotion is regulated by expression suppression in the same process, it should be regarded as an adjusting strategy that emotion acts on behavior.In sentimental theories, the emotion adjustment of emotion is a basic emotion regulation strategy, thus should belong to the emotion regulation strategy, which is completely new in the field.The part of Cognition's regulation of emotion mainly concludes and explains the understanding of the relationship between people's emotion and cognition according to the Hole movement theory in Chinese medicine psychology. This understanding of the emotion and cognition is a breakthrough of the dichotomy of Western psychology theory, which has great practical significance.It is pointed out in the part of attention's regulation of emotion that, from the view of emotion regulation, people have been fully aware of the effect of attention shift on emotion regulation as early as"Internal Classics"and have used widely in medical practice. The specific method is to shift the attention of sentimental patients in order that they change their emotion, and get rid of the emotion diseases in the end.With regard to the personality's regulation of emotion, the theory of individual quality in Internal Classic is fully aware of the individual diversities in personality and emotion. The theory advocates a neutralization of Yin and Yang personalities. This method of characteristic adjustment on the basis of different personalities realizes the aim of emotion regulation indirectly.Thinking of the important value of the emotion regulation strategy in sentimental theories , we should also be aware of their own historical limitations at the same time. Firstly, the emotion regulation strategy of sentimental theories is mainly about the adjustment of Wu Sentimentions and Qi motions, which neglecting the cognition and research of the other emotions. Secondly, it is a larger discount for the emotion regulation strategy of sentimental theories, because of its research method thinking much of practice, but little demonstration, which should have a further improvement.