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How Emotions Are Made
As the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in her book How Emotions Are Made, “You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Everything your body does, inside or out, requires energy. To manage its “body budget” across hundreds of body parts and billions of cells, the brain has to constantly predict the body’s energy needs. Many of these “budgetary changes” we experience as emotional experiences.
Tiago Forte • How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
The control-oriented perceptions that underpin emotions and moods are all about predicting the consequences of actions for keeping the body’s essential variables where they belong.
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Rather, feelings originate with the mind projecting its subjective experience onto the world. The world isn’t inherently joyful or sad; it just is.
Haemin Sunim • The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
The moment those circuits organize into new networks in the brain, the brain makes a chemical. That chemical is called a feeling or an emotion. That means the instant you feel freedom, abundance, gratitude, wholeness, or joy from that novel event, now you’re teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood.