Mapping Emotions in the Body: A Finnish Neuroscience Study Reveals Where We Feel Emotions in Our Bodies
Josh Jonesopenculture.com
Mapping Emotions in the Body: A Finnish Neuroscience Study Reveals Where We Feel Emotions in Our Bodies
When a person is distressed, standard therapy tries to figure out what makes something so disturbing, and what you can do to change it. Most therapies downplay or ignore the shifts in people’s inner sensory world that carry the essence of the organisms’ responses: the emotional states that are imprinted in the state of the body’s chemical profile,
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emotions are comprised of two interweaving elements: cognitions and sensations.
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Interoception monitors all that is going on within the body, and it’s a lot: we feel the heart, the breath, the immune system, hunger, muscle tension, sexual arousal, emotional signals from our gut (which at times we might call ‘gut feelings’), a full bladder—all of it.
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Simple pleasant and unpleasant feelings come from an ongoing process inside you called interoception. Interoception is your brain’s representation of all sensations from your internal organs and tissues, the hormones in your blood, and your immune system. Think about what’s happening within your body right this second. Your insides are in motion. Y
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Emotions are mostly made up of three axis:- Autonomic arousal scale: alert to calm.- Valence: good to bad.- Focus: interoception to exteroception (making predictions about the outside world).
