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Emotion
* All emotions are messages from our unconscious aspects to our conscious ones
  - are, in essence, impulses to act
  - contain the same particles of energy, the same prana
  - have causes, causes which can be understood and controlled
* Every emotion has thereby a direct effect on the body's physiological function.
* Is Communication.
* Many emotions are self-centered in a way that is detrimental to spirituality.
* Most emotions are healthy responses to unhealthy experiences.
* Some emotions appear to be expressed by a posture opposite to that of the opposite emotion.
* Some emotions are more complex than others, formed through the combination of simpler emotions
  - stronger, meaning they have more energy, than other emotions
  - camouflage as positive or negative, but really are the opposite of what they pretend
  - mask other, deeper emotions
  - seem to encourage evil decisions, such as greed, ambition and desire.
  * complex psychological phenomenon which occurs as animals or people live their lives. Emotions involve physiological arousal, appraisal of the situation, expressive behaviours, and conscious experience. The laws of emotions'.Myers, David G. 2004. Theories of emotion in 'Psychology'. 7th ed, Worth, New York
* act as positive and negative inducements to avoid or pursue particular courses of action.
* actually helps reason focus the mind and set priorities.
* add physical energy.
* affect all drivers
  - and color our experience
  - hormones
  - our ability to think, problem-solve and communicate
* affect the finely balanced functions of reproduction
  - nervous system and trauma reflects as lesion marks in the iris
* allow the human brain to have evolved beyond a problem-solving machine.
* also affect the immune system
  - hunger and thirst
  - play an important role in decision-making and reasoning
* always have a rational basis.
* are a complex and unknown field
  - critical source of motivation
  - fluid response to life
  - fundamental part of humans intelligence
  - healthy part of living
  - major reason people eat
  - natural and integral part of our daily lives
  - normal part of life
  - part of the divine imprint on our lives
  - physical quality of the pain
  - second source of people problems
  - source of energy, and can be directed toward desirable or undesirable goals
  - striking and omnipresent feature of human experience
  - vital part of our being for several reasons
  - almost always irrational
* are also overwhelming to young children
  - responsible for creating some of the worst human tragedies
  - the appreciators of life
  - very different in the dementia universe
  - among the least behaviorally and perceptually linked psychological processes
* are an enormous part of work and human interaction
  - important part of our lives
  - indication of our imaginations in the material world
  - integral part of conflict resolution
  - another group of pleasures and displeasures
  - at war only when a person holds mistaken or deliberately contradictory thoughts
  - automatic thoughts
  - biomechanical
  - chemistry, generated from within
  - colors
  - complex changes of muscles and glands
  - complicated and difficult to compartmentalize
  - contagious, especially negative emotions
* are critical to learning-they drive our attention, health, learning, meaning and memory
  - meaning making and patterning
  - different from any other part of our human experience
  - easier to project by telepathy than static pictures
  - electric currents
  - electrical and chemical events in the body
  - emotional and intellect is intellectual
  - energy moving through our consciousness
* are essential for both males and females to function properly
  - to reasoning
  - evanescent, whereas knowledge lasts a lifetime
  - everywhere, and everyone is different
  - expressions of psychological behavior and behavior can be changed
  - extreme - anger and fear
* are feelings of connection
  - such as love, happiness, anger, or fear
  - that influence behavior and that have physiological and cognitive elements
  - gravity
  - healthy reactions to difficult situations
  - highly salient biological cues for humans
  - information
  - integral to sensing and understanding life
* are internal behaviors
  - irrational and they spring mostly from unresolved feelings going back to childhood
  - like waves
  - more in art, and thinking is more in science
* are much more than reptilian reflexes
  - stronger than reason in most people
  - neither separate from, nor opposite to, reason
  - observable to others, and are cues to underlying states
* are often deep and intense
  - difficult to control and hard to manage
  - hard to control
  - large and confident, expressed in obvious language
  - precursors of certain behaviors
  - on-off switches to learning and change
  - opportunities for training the brain
  - part of being human
* are part of the sensible world and subject to the strict law of causality
  - soul and thus are eternal
  - partly mental
  - powerful clues as to what one is most ready to learn next in life
* are powerful forces of greatness
  - within the human mind
  - motivators of human behavior
  - processes that are shaped by physiology, perceptions, social experience and language
  - qualia, qualities as they appear to our consciousness
  - qualitative and thoughts are quantitative
  - quite powerful when it comes to controlling behavior
  - relational and produce felt tendencies of attraction or repulsion
  - responsive and gets results through processes
  - scarcely noticeable in the face, but they are mentally intact
  - self-limiting
* are so extreme, and the body is going through severe physical changes
  - high that people are driven by self-guided principles
  - something that can cause a wide variety of symptoms
  - spontaneous inner reactions to the world outside
  - subjective reactions or feeling
  - suspect, because they change with our moods
* are the body's response to a thought
  - colors of a personality
  - factors which weight our decisions
  - fuel of action, they can drive behavior
  - fundamental way energy assimilates experience
  - internal state
  - key to motivating people
  - real fuel source behind power struggles
* are the result of an individual s reaction to a stimulus, which can be virtually anything
  - our thoughts
  - subjective feelings that individuals carry which denote various moods
  - substance of art
  - trigger in the decision making process
  - things humans feel, like anguish or happiness that are followed by pain or pleasure
  - thoughts And thoughts can be changed
  - to a considerable extent feelings
  - universal
  - varied in intensity and duration
  - very powerful tools, and when used in rhetoric, they can sway opinions and beliefs
* arise as a result of external conditions or as a result of mental machinations.
* associate with elements that symbolize realities.
* becomes the standard by which truth is judged.
* block rational thinking.
* bring on asthma in many children.
* build love, and love arouses curiosity.
* can affect both client expectations and decisions in a variety of ways
  - also play a role
* can be crucial to the storage and recall of information
  - difficult to restrain
  - hard and aggressive with calculated desires and a tendency to manipulate
* can be positive and negative and can consequently affect our well-being
  - burn like fire
  - cause depression
  - change quickly from one to another
  - come out at different times
  - create physiological responses that become conducive to cancer growth
  - deceive
  - even be contagious
  - get in the way of objectivity
  - interfere with critical thinking, but only when it is emotion that is out of balance
  - manifest with equal force, whether incited by fantasy or reality
  - peak when an event is of significance to everyone in the group
  - run high, and trust and communication can very often break down
  - spiral out of control quickly
* can, however, be asthma triggers.
* cause the brain to produce various chemicals for distribution throughout the body.
* causes motion.
* central ingredient in personal change and transformation.
* clouds our judgment, and often results in perceived patterns where none exist.
* come from the heart, as does universal love and love for others
  - so-called subconscious mind
  - out of the subconscious mind
  - through the ear rather than the eye, winter rainbow emerging through hearing
* communicate on a deep level from inside to inside.
* complex psychological construct that evades simple definition
* confer meaning to the events of our lives, and add passion and conviction to our actions.
* connected with separations are many and vary from family to family.
* consequence of thinking.
* consists of both arousal and a cognitive component.
* control the brain
  - preponderance of basic human needs and behavior patterns
* coordinate of mind.
* correspond to patterns of relationships and are in a certain way learned.
* differ from person to person and so do the reactions of others.
* directly affect physical well being.
* distort the thinking of alcoholics.
* do affect our physical health
  - influence the way that our bronchial tubes and our immune systems behave
  - play an important role in our lives
  - the same for Being , Belonging , and Doing
* drive attention, index events, set priorities, and create meaning.
* drives attention, which drives learning, which drives memory.
* encompass the mental, physical, and spiritual realms.
* exist somewhere between the soul and ethics - sort of independently.
* foreign country.
* give meaning and depth to life.
* grow out of thoughts.
* have emotional power
  - much more energy than people realize
* have the ability to distort our vision of reality
  - power to override even the most rational decisions
  - their own biologically automated pathways, which are the superhighways of the brain
* help make the world what it is.
* hijacker that causes focus to be shifted and dilutes neutrality.
* impact attention, health, learning, interpretation of meaning, and memory.
* increase the strength of the strongest response tendencies.
* influence the content of working memory
* intensify the roleplaying experience.
* involve feelings and conscious, which are hard to study scientifically.
* is Information
  - also one of the most cross-disciplinary topics in psychology
* is an adaptive response, part of the vital process of normal reasoning and decision-making
  - agent of feeling
  - indicator of the degree to which any experience is personally meaningful
  - unreliable and unstable indicator, because feelings are fleeting and transitory
  - another important factor affecting attention
  - bands
  - considered to be a disturbed state of mind
  - created by feelings
  - described as a continual flow from one state to another
  - energy in motion
  - generated by complex feedback loops between the lower brain and endocrine system
  - hot, cognition is cold, yet both operate in intergroup relations
  - important to learning because mistakes hurt
  - instantiated in elements of brain circuitry that have now been characterized
  - made up of a collection of emotional charges
  - mental and sensation is physical, but the two are interrelated
  - more important, closer to the real essence of life, than is intellect
  - necessarily about sex
  - often the motivator for expression through writing, or through any art
* is one dimension of ability
  - of the most quickly growing areas of research in psychology
  - our fundamental predisposition toward action
* is part of humans
  - minds
  - really just energy in motion
  - result of specific relationships between people and their environment
  - strong feelings
  - stronger energy than simple thought energy
  - that part of the physiological makeup of humans that involves feeling or sensibility
* is the chief source of all becoming conscious
  - component that transforms a mere image into art
  - connection to everything, whether it's bad or good
  - dominant factor in religion but plays a small part in philosophy
  - element that pumps college football
* is the fuel of annihiliation or of creation
  - the subconscious while imagination is the language
  - that drives the engine
  - fundamental basis of relationships
  - raw, neurological discharge of the organism in response to a stimulus
  - reaction in our bodies to the psycho-chemical stimuli produced by the senses
* is the tangible of the intangible imagination
  - or physical manifestation of the intangible imagination
  - thought energy with physical energy added to it
  - used for feelings
  - very important to learning because it drives learning and memory processes
* is what carries a team
  - makes sports great
  - sells things like homes, especially new ones
* is, in many ways, a driving force
  - to a large degree, an emergent system
* mode of intelligence.
* modulate our behavior
  - physical communication
* motivate actions
  - the achievement of important goals
* movement in the body provoqued by or related to the movement of the diaphram.
* occur on a deeper and personal level.
* occurs somewhat like the way consciousness occurs.
* often express outwardly our innermost beliefs
  - gets short shrift in our society, and is thought to have no place at all in science
  - swing from fear to sadness to anger to hope and grief in a single day
  - tend to cloud rationality and judgment
* originate from body.
* play a huge role in art
  - science as well
  - key factor in disease progresion
  - large role in both art and science
  - number of important functions in the life of a child
* play a part in everyone's life
  - the sensory system
  - almost no role in science
* play an important part in arguments and conflicts
  - role when learning and memory circuits are being established
* plays a big role in telling the truth either before or after the event
  - role in the work of a scientist, too
* relates directly to our desires as well as to our ideals.
* resonance of various feelings.
* reveal themselves physically.
* run at maximum output at every moment
  - high during pregnancy in general
* seem to be the phenomenological instantiation of the instinct of goal - direction.
* signal to the self and the other the nature of the individual's goals.
* sometimes are hard to control
  - get in the way of our being able to make objective moral judgments
* stimulate our brains to recall things better.
* surface at different times throughout a lifetime.
* surrounds information.
* takes place in the person who has it.
* tend to be dualistic, changeable, mental, and competitive
  - fluid and changeable in the days after childbirth
  - oscillate from high to low to high
* then is the 'perception' of our current physiological state.
* touches people's hearts and it opens up their minds.
* ubiquitous phenomenon in human social behaviour.
* usually run high, and mood swings are common.
* vary including euphoria, distress, resentment, hostility, rebellion, and negativity.
* very adaptive form of physiological response, and it regulates our lives.