Upregulating positive emotional states like joy and enthusiasm is as critical for human experience and therapy as downregulating negative states.

“there has been too much of an emphasis on the downregulation of negative States you remember the original attachment Theory the secure base the baby would come back in a in a stress State she would downregulate the the negative States but really attachment is about the down regulation of negative States and the UPR regulation of positive States still at this point in time the importance of positive States in The Human Experience are overlooked positive emotions Joy enthusiasm excitement positive States literally are the key”