What emotional regulation technique involves changing the way you think about an event to change your feelings about it?

Emotional regulation refers to the process by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express these emotions. The specific emotional regulation technique that involves changing the way you think about an event to change your feelings about it is called Cognitive Reappraisal. Cognitive reappraisal is a proactive form of emotional regulation where an individual consciously reinterprets the meaning or significance of an emotion-eliciting situation in a way that alters its emotional impact. This technique operates on the understanding that our emotions are not solely determined by external events themselves, ....