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While I don't think anyone has complete control of their own emotions, I do think some measure of control is possible through manipulation of one's own facial expression, posture, breathing & thought patterns.
Right you can hack your lizard brain with deep breathing to calm yourself down, but that seems like even more proof the you you think you are is only barely in charge of this mess we call a brain. If you can't calm down you can trick your body into calming down which then calms "you" down. Personally I tend to think the you you are is just a verbal processing system that retroactively analyzes what the rest of your brain does. If the reaction is slow enough, you can sometimes take charge and we call that modicum of authority "self control".
The whole microexpression thing, if valid, takes the facial expressions thing off the table.
Posture is...I guess controllable as a bulk coordinated muscle movement but tbh no clue why that's relevant.
I seem to remember reading that research of certain brain disorders has shown exactly that... Basically, without a functional corpus callosum, one side of your brain does something, then the other side (that had nothing to do with it) comes up with a reason why "it" did it.