If the room decides how you feel about yourself, anyone in a bad mood can set your whole day. A quiet part of this work is moving that judgement back inside.

What the research says

In a randomised trial with 234 adults, brief therapist supported internet programmes that had people practise mindful awareness of their emotions and reappraisal reduced problematic anger. That sits close to this work without being the same thing, since nothing in the trial measured where people located their sense of worth. Read it as support for training attention to your own inner state, which is where this begins.

Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.