Did you read that article that came out today that said you should only eat six fries?

你看今天那篇文章了嗎？上面說你應該只吃六根薯條。

What? Are they delusional? Who can only eat six fries?

什麼？ 他們有妄想症嗎？誰會只吃六根薯條？

I don't know, that's what the article said.

我不知道，文章是這麼說的。

Like over the course of my life or in one sitting?

是一生中還是一次？

I mean what if I eat six fries every hour?

我是說如果我每小時吃六根薯條呢？

- I don't know. - Okay, but like what are the time parameters for six fries? Is it mean six seconds? Months? Years? - I don't know, maybe read the article?

- 我不知道。- 好吧，但是像六根薯條的時間參數是什麼？ 是說六秒鐘？月？年？ - 我不知道，也許要看文章？

Okay, but you read the article and have now ruined my life, so I would like some elaborate answers beyond: "don't eat more than six fries."

好吧，但因為你這篇文章所以現在我生活已經被毀了，所以我想知道除了： 「不要吃超過6根薯條。」以外的答案。

This is why you have no friends.

這就是為什麼你沒朋友。

I'm alone.

我是一個人。

I mean one thing we've been sort of trained to believe is that negative emotions are bad.

我的意思是，我們已經被訓練成相信是消極情緒都是不好的。

Jealousy, insecurity, doubt, paranoia. I mean the list goes on and on.

嫉妒、不安全感、懷疑、偏執，不勝枚舉。

The positivity movement especially has this mentality that you should cast aside these emotions in favor of the happy ones.

自愛運動特別是有這個心態，你應該拋開這些情緒，而選擇快樂的情緒。

Sort of like fake it to make it but feel it to...make real it.

有點像假戲真做，但感覺要……把它變成真的。

Which I don't think works long term because then you sort of become detached and disconnected with your emotions by just constantly dismissing them.

我不認為長期下來這真的有幫助，因為這樣你就會變得和自己的情緒很疏離和脫節，你只是不斷在否定它們。

All right everyone! After some recent discussions internally we've decided to fire you all!

好了，各位！經過近期的一些內部討論我們決定把大家炒魷魚！

From now on it's all joy!

從現在開始，只剩快樂！

What do you mean? what do you mean? You can't just fire us. We live inside of you!

什麼？什麼意思？你不能隨便解僱我們，我們住在你身體裡誒！

Pack your shit and leave, Bye!

收拾好東西，然後離開。掰囉！

Then there's also the view that you need to sit with your emotions, right?

還有一種觀點是，你需要接納你的情緒，對嗎？

The idea of acceptance of negative feelings in order to let them pass through you.

通過接受負面情緒來讓它們從你身上消失。

But I've found that when I do this, I just get stuck in the bad feeling and just ruminate because I'm allowing that emotion to take over my life.

但我發現當我這樣做的時候，我就只會停在不好的感受上，然後不斷反思，因為我讓這種情緒佔據了我的生活。

It's gonna be a terrible day.

今天會很糟。

It's gonna be a terrible meal.

這餐會很難吃。

He's gonna die someday and you're gonna be devastated!

他總有一天會死，然後你就會大崩潰！

And now I have found a brilliant technique that has helped me so much.

但現在我發現了一個很讚的方法，對我幫助很大。

Now bear with me because I know it's gonna sound a little cheesy,

現在，請耐心聽我說，因為我知道這聽起來會有點浮誇。

but if you're someone who deals with a lot of anxiety or insecurity or emotional pain of any kind, I urge you to have an open mind and try it.

但如果你要處理一堆焦慮、不安全感，或任何讓你感到難受的情緒，我真的建議大家抱著開放的心去試試看。

So when you feel a negative emotion. Let's say, insecurity.

當你感受到一種負面情緒時，比方說不安全感。

I want you to first think of what that emotion would look like, a physical representation of it.

你先想一想，這種情緒實際上會長怎樣。

So for me, my insecurity would look like a jagged crystal formation.

對我來說，我的不安全感會像一個鋸齒狀的水晶體。

And once that image is really clear, I want you to mentally take that physicalized emotion from your body and hold it in front of you and ask it,

而一旦這個形象清晰了起來，請你在精神上把這種具象化後的情緒從身體裡抽離出來，並拿到面前問它：

Why are you here?

你怎麼會在這裡？

Because every feeling you have is actually trying to help you.

因為你的每一種感受其實都是想幫助你。

It's trying to let you know something.

它是想讓你知道一些事情。

I mean, that's why you feel it.

我的意思是，這就是為什麼你感受得到它。

It's this physical cue that shouldn't be just ignored or blindly accepted but understood.

就是這種具象化讓你知道你不應該只是忽視或盲目接受，而是要去理解。

OK. So what's up? What are you trying to tell me?

好，所以怎麼了？你想告訴我什麼？

I don't want you to get hurt.

我不想讓你受傷。

What? Why would I get hurt?

怎麼了？我為什麼會受傷？

Well, you were at this party and everyone here is really cool and you like them a lot, but what if they don't like you as much as you like them?

你參加了這個聚會，這裡的每個人都很酷，你很喜歡他們。但如果他們沒有像你喜歡他們一樣來喜歡你呢？

What if they think you're lame?

如果他們認為你很土怎麼辦？

I just want to make sure that you're safe, and you're loved, and that no one hurts you.

我只是想確保你是安全、被愛，而且是被好好保護的。

Are you still with me? And isn't my crystal voice just like super adorable?

你還在線嗎？我水晶的聲音是不是超級可愛？

But seriously, literally every emotion you feel is trying to do something for you.

但說真的，你所感受到的每一種情緒都在試圖為你做一些事情。

Whether it's your anger trying to protect you, your anxiety wanting to motivate you to do better, or your feelings of unworthiness wanting to make sure that you get the love you deserve.

無論是想要保護你的憤怒，想要激勵你做得更好的焦慮，或想要確保你得到你應得的愛的不受重視感。

You need to think of negative emotions as misunderstood, and then, once you really know why it's there, the next step is to think of what you would rather feel.

你要把這些看成是一種誤會，然後，一旦你釐清這些感受後，下一步要做的事是思考你更願意感受到什麼。

So for me, when I understand that my insecurity is trying to keep me safe from getting hurt,

所以對我來說，當我明白我的不安全感是想讓我不受到傷害，

I would think, "Hmm, well, I would rather feel vulnerable. I'd rather feel like I can put myself out there and take a risk and know that I'm enough just as I am."

我會想：「嗯，好吧，我寧願覺得自己很脆弱。我寧願冒險覺得我自己可以融入進去，知道我這樣就夠了。」

And once I have that feeling, I make it a physical object as well.

而且一旦我有了這種感覺，我也會把它具象化。

Pull it out of my body mentally and I merge the two together.

從心理上把它拉出來，然後把兩者合而為一。

So once you merge these two together, it becomes a new object and then, still in your head here, you will put the new object back in your body and carry on.

所以，一旦你把這兩個合在一起，就變成了一個新物體，然後，在你的腦子裡，你會把這個新物體放回你身體去，然後繼續生活。

Now, I can feel your judgment through the screen.

現在，我可以透過螢幕感受到你的質疑。

Like I feel it and I know some of you are like rolling your eyes and be like, "Oh my god, Anna so New Age LA now."

我知道你們中的一些人現在在翻白眼，然後會想：「我的天，安娜現在是在搞什麼潛能開發嗎？」

And I want you to ask yourself, why do you feel judgmental?

那我想讓你問問自己，為什麽你自己會有這種批判情緒出現？

How is it trying to serve you and what does it look like?

它是如何對你運作的，它看起來是怎樣的？

And I know this may not be for everyone, but it's literally come in handy so much of my life that I did want to share it,

我知道這可能不適用於每個人，但它在我的生活中真的是有用的所以我想分享給大家，

because now I understand that every negative emotion is trying to do something for me.

因為我現在明白每一種負面情緒都試圖為我做些什麼。

Instead of just pushing it away or succumbing to it, I can now transform it into something that helps make my existence more bearable.

我現在可以把它轉化成幫助自己釋懷的一種存在，而不是一味地推脫或屈服於它。

If anything, I hope that this helps you in some way because, you know, life can be really hard sometimes and I'm really tired of being the person who makes me feel the worst.

無論如何，我希望它對你有一定的幫助，因為你也知道，生活有時真的很難，我也不想再作繭自縛。

So I'm working on it. I'm Anna Akana, stay awesome Gotham!

所以我正在努力中，我是Anna Akana。