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Mastering the ebbs and flows of your emotions is the only way to skillfully ride the waves of life. [Shield] AN OXFORD CLUB PUBLICATION [Liberty Through Wealth]( [View in browser]( SPONSORED [NO more coin tosses with your money. NO more guessing games.]( [Coin Flip]( Just a special trade that can make you BIG money - when a stock goes up OR down. This proven technique can help you rack up gains as big as 136%... 178%... and 188%... OVERNIGHT. [Click here NOW to discover the single greatest strategy in stock market history.]( EDITOR'S NOTE Why wait years for colossal gains when you could have landed a [780% gain in just 12 days using this strategy]( Learn more about the strategy that's proven to beat the S&P 500 by up to 2,000%. This strategy is the magic behind one of Alexander Green's [most successful trading services]( The Insider Alert. 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Because we tend to understand ourselves in relation to the world we live in, Freud and his students created explanations of human functioning - in particular our emotions, drives and instincts - in terms of buildup and release, just like the steam engines of their time. This formed the basis of the charge/discharge theories of emotional release that were influential in psychotherapy and pop psychology in the '60s, '70s and '80s - and that still resonate in popular culture today. But we aren't steam engines, either. More recently, our brains have been compared to computers, with hardware and software, running programs that we install or have had installed. But though some functions of our brain seem to work that way to a degree, the truth is... we're not computers, either. Analogies are fine as far as they go, but all such explanations do is give us a rough approximation of certain qualities or experiences. The worst they can do is give us the illusion that we understand ourselves in ways that aren't true. The machine analogy doesn't do justice to the structure of our bodies and our cohesive sense of self. The steam engine analogy doesn't do justice to our emotions. And the computer analogy doesn't do justice to the complexity of our creative, living systems. We're much more complicated and elegant than any of these ideas... [Continue Reading]( Joel F. Wade, Ph.D., is a contributing writer for Liberty Through Wealth. He is the author of [The Virtue of Happiness]( [Mastering Happiness]( and his new course, [Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions](. He is also the host of [The Mastering Happiness Podcast](. Joel works with people around the world as a marriage and family therapist and life coach. Visit his website to receive a free [Learning Optimism]( e-course. 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