When Emotions Are Too Complex: Healing Through Eastern Myths | Yuetong Lu | TEDxGCGS Youth

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What if ancient myths could help us understand modern emotions? Through the stories of Yu the Great, Nüwa, and Jingwei, this talk explores how Eastern myths can give shape to feelings that are difficult to put into words, including pressure, self-doubt, and the emotional weight behind constant effort. Instead of treating myths as distant moral lessons, the talk presents them as an emotional language that can help us better understand what is happening inside us. Selina Lu is a high school student whose work explores the connection between mythology, psychology, and teenage emotional experience. Her independent research, Deconstructing and Reshaping “Archetypes”: How Chinese Mythological IP Character Design Fosters Critical Cultural Identity in Adolescents, examines how mythological figures can shape the way young people understand identity and culture. Building on this interest, she created a healing handbook that uses Eastern myths as symbolic tools for understanding pressure, self-do

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