Malka Ceh, PhD, MSc, cNPA

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I am an affectologist; an expert in emotions.  My expertise is rooted in my psychoanalytic work and an interdisciplinary academic journey. I hold a Master’s degree in Psychotherapy Science, a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology, and a clinical certification in NeuroPsychoanalysis. Drawing from this foundation, I'm driven by a mission to foster your potential through a pragmatic, science-driven approach to emotional functionality.  I guide individuals in optimizing their emotional fitness, securing sustained personal and professional growth. I offer online workshops, courses, personalized coaching programs, affective assessments, and professional development solutions.

My work is rooted in the understanding that emotions are at the core of all human life, from overall well-being to personality, relationships, and professional success. By integrating the latest findings in affective science and psychology, I offer practical tools and strategies for cultivating emotional reprogramming. Unlike traditional approaches focusing on emotional disorders, my work emphasizes emotional fitness; a proactive, growth-oriented perspective for improving emotional literacy, intelligence, and adaptability.

My programs and consultations aim to bridge the gap between scientific research and everyday emotional challenges. Whether you are striving to improve your interpersonal dynamics, achieve peak performance, or promote emotional well-being in your organization, I provide customized solutions for your needs. My mission is to make the science of emotions accessible and actionable, empowering individuals and professionals to harness the power of their emotions for personal and professional growth and success.

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Do you feel that pull to scroll, snack, or binge-watch when you plan to do work, work out, clean, or do something else productive? 😵‍💫 Here’s the truth: boredom has evolved to guide you toward growth, but in today’s world, it’s hijacked. 🎲🎰 Your brain is designed to always seek "something better". 🔎 This instinct would have helped you in the evolutionary past to find better places and ways to secure food, shelter, allies, a partner, and solve other life’s challenges. 💡 But now? Instead of growing your resources, boredom tempts you toward: • 🍟 Junk food • 📱 Mindless scrolling • 📺 Binge-watching shows • 🛒 Impulse shopping These quick dopamine hits create spikes and crashes that deplete your dopamine reserves, leaving you restless, unmotivated, and stuck in a loop of craving. 😩 When you give in to boredom with instant gratification, you lose the opportunity to build up your dopamine capacity and fuel your long-term motivation. It also becomes a habit that weakens your resistance to distractions and the ability to focus, work deliberately, and make an effort. Enduring boredom is a superpower in today’s world. 💪🏻💪🏻 Why Boredom Matters: • It allows your dopamine levels to replenish. 🌱 • It builds the capacity to take meaningful action, especially when things feel hard. • It’s essential for sustainable well-being and a good life. The ability to endure boredom without reaching for a quick fix enables you to make real progress toward your goals. Emotional Fitness Tip: Next time boredom strikes, remind yourself: the urge to scroll or snack is not a need—it’s a nudge. Don’t follow it. Bear it. 💭 What’s your go-to reaction when you’re bored? Take time to reflect. #EmotionalFitness #BoredomHack #DopamineReset #SelfMastery #Resilience #AffectiveScience #Affectology #AffectologistHow many times a day does this happen? You feel a surge of *anticipation and excitement*, only to crash into frustration or restlessness soon after. 🧠📉 This is a dopamine crash, a drop in your brain’s anticipation chemical after an intense peak from things like scrolling social media, eating junk food, or binge-watching shows. 🤑🚨 The higher the peak, the deeper the crash. And after the crash, your dopamine levels drop below baseline, leaving you stuck in regret, boredom, or apathy. 😖 In contrast, actions that require effort, like working out or doing deep work, lead to a gradual climb toward satisfaction and pride, without the dramatic crash. These effort-based rewards keep your dopamine levels balanced and sustainable. 💪🏻⚖️🥰 🔑 Emotional Fitness Tip: To maintain healthy dopamine levels: 1️⃣ Avoid or limit extreme dopamine spikes. 2️⃣ Focus on effort-based actions like exercise or creative work. 3️⃣ Allow your dopamine system to reset with rest, boredom, or low-stimulation activities. 💭 Think about it: Which habits make you feel energized, and which ones leave you feeling drained? ☝🏻 #DopamineCrash #DopamineHealth #EmotionalHealth #EmotionalFitness #Neuroscience #SelfMastery #AffectiveScience #Affectology #AffectologistYour emotions emerge from the three-layer build of your brain. 🧠✨ 1️⃣ Primary emotions: Evolutionarily developed and hardwired from birth, these simple yet essential emotions originate in your brainstem. 2️⃣ Secondary emotions: Shaped by your early-life experiences and environment, especially your relationships with significant others, they run on the limbic system. 3️⃣ Tertiary emotions: The most complex, emerging from the brain’s cortex and strongly integrated with reflective processes, like self-awareness, conscious effort, and willpower. Understanding the anatomy of your emotional system equips you with the basics for reprogramming and optimizing your emotional functioning. 🌱💡 Stay tuned as we explore each layer. 😉 #EmotionalFitness #Neuroscience #SelfImprovementJourney #EmotionalHealth #MindsetMatters #SelfAwarenessWhat are emotions? Emotions are your brain's biological algorithms. 🧠 They interpret what's happening around you and motivate and guide you in your behavioral responses. Each emotion generates a unique feeling that drives your response. 🚀 Here’s the breakdown of every emotion: 1️⃣ Trigger: The sensation, situation, event, person, object, behavior etc. that sets off a feeling. 2️⃣ Feeling: Your subjective experience, the how you feel part. 3️⃣ Behavioral Response: How you (re)act based on that feeling. Your response may be behavioral, verbal, a facial expression, an increase in blood pressure and that alike. Think of emotions as your interpretation engine, alerting you about opportunities and risks, guiding your decisions and fueling their enactment. By understanding this mechanism better, you can optimize it to work in accordance with your personal goal and values. 💡🎯 Reflect: What’s one emotion you’d like to understand or optimize better? 💭 #EmotionsExplained #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalFitness #SelfImprovementJourney #MindsetMatters #PersonalGrowth #InnerWork #MentalWellbeing #EmotionalHealth #SelfAwarenessIn the entangled landscape of your experience, emotional challenges emerge as typical nuisances. 🌪️ Pause and reflect: How would you rank these challenges in your emotional makeup, from most to least pressing? 🧠 Your ranking might surprise you—and illuminate your next step in emotional growth. 🌱✨ 🔊 Upregulated Emotional Expression: Your emotional expression exceeds what's effective—like using a megaphone for an intimate conversation. 🎤 💧 Emotional Overwhelm: Your emotional intensity exceeds your processing capacity, like a cup overflowing—whether it's the intensity of the emotion itself or your capacity to process it, the experience leaves you feeling flooded. 🌊 🔥 Emotional Suppression: You deliberately stifle your emotions—like a pressure cooker with a sealed lid. While this can build resilience, it might also lead to emotional eruptions. 🚪💥 👁️‍🗨️ Limited Empathetic Perception: You find it difficult to read others' emotional states accurately—like trying to read a book in dim light, the cues are there but hard for you to decipher. 📖💡 🔍 Impaired Emotional Recognition: You struggle to identify your own emotional states—you either experience feelings but can't quite recognize and name them or simply fail to notice them. 🌀❓ 🤐 Downregulated Emotional Expression: You tend to keep your emotions to yourself—like locking a door but leaving the key inside, access becomes impossible. 🔒🗝️ #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalGrowth #EmotionalFitness #MentalHealth #PersonalDevelopment #PsychologicalInsights #EmotionalIntelligence #PsychologicalGrowth #EmotionalWellbeing #MentalHealth #EmotionalFitness #ConsciousGrowth #EmotionalDevelopment #PsychologicalInsightsYour emotional fitness is more than just "feeling good" – it's the product of your emotional well-being 🌿 and emotional functionality ⚙️. When you work on both dimensions, your emotions become your greatest tools 🛠️ for living a good life. 🌟 Explore what peak emotional health looks like for you. 🌈 Double tap if you're committed to developing your emotional fitness 💪🤍 #EmotionalFitness #EmotionalHealth #PersonalGrowth #MentalWellness #EmotionalIntelligence #SelfDevelopment #MindsetGrowth #EmotionalWellbeing #MentalHealth #PersonalDevelopmentIn 2015, Harari proposed a paradigm shift: 🌀 Psychology must move beyond its preoccupation with mapping and fixing dysfunction and toward understanding the mechanisms of optimal mental functioning. 🌟 It challenged me to study emotional performance and its role in human potential. 🌱 An integration of insights from neuropsychoanalysis 🧠, evolutionary anthropology 🦴, and clinical work 💡 gradually revealed how emotions, when properly tuned, function as sophisticated instruments of human advancement. 🎯✨ #EmotionalFitness #EmotionalHealth #SuperNormativeStates #OptimalFunctioningDid you know that emotions are the driving force behind most meaningful decisions in life? 🤔💡In recent decades, breakthroughs in affective science have revolutionized decision-making theories. 🧠📚 Research shows that emotions have a strong, profound, and predictable influence on your choices. ⚖️ They guide your judgments across different areas of life and sometimes lead you to positive outcomes — and sometimes into a trap [1]. 🥲 The paradigm shift makes it clear how strongly emotions shape not just how you feel but how you act. 🎬 Case in point: my emotions leading me to keep changing the color palette of my logo. 😋🎨 Are you aware of how your emotions have influenced your decisions recently? 💭😊 [1] Lerner, J., Li, Y., Valdesolo, P., & Kassam, K. (2015). Emotion and decision making. Annual review of psychology, 66(1), 799-823. Doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043. #EmotionalFitness #AffectiveScience #EmotionalHealth #DecisionMaking #EmotionsMatterIn 2015, Harari proposed a paradigm shift: 🌀 Psychology must move beyond its preoccupation with mapping and fixing dysfunction and toward understanding the mechanisms of optimal mental functioning. 🌟 This has challenged me to examine emotional performance and its role in human potential. 🌱 By integrating insights from neuropsychoanalysis 🧠, evolutionary anthropology 🦴, and clinical work 💡 it gradually became clear to me how emotions, when properly tuned, function as sophisticated instruments of human progress. 🎯✨ #EmotionalFitness #EmotionalHealth #SuperNormativeStates #OptimalFunctioning

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