Immediately after an emotional response, our rational mind has the opportunity to reflect and reinterpret the information before it feeds back into our emotions. Reappraisal, also called reframing, is the act of reinterpreting the meaning of an emotional stimulus, altering the resulting emotional trajectory. In other words, every time we experience a negative emotion, we are given the gift of reinterpretation, and this reinterpretation is a key leverage point to controlling our emotions.
See Alain De Botton Article on generous interpretation
