It’s well known that
attitudes, emotions and feelings affect our body in a variety of ways.
For example, feelings of hopelessness affect the body’s hormone system
and change the chemical flows within our brains. Different emotional
states act as triggers that impact our biology in a variety of ways.
Brain activity changes during different emotional states. The list goes
on and on.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science demonstrates
that different emotional states trigger different physical sensations
on the body. Emotions such as anger, impacted the body in a different
area compared to the emotion of fear, disgust, happiness, love,
depression, and more. Each individual emotion had it’s own unique part of the body that correlated with it.
The study was conducted at Aalto
University by a team of bio-medical engineers. 700 volunteers from
Finland, Sweden and Taiwan participated in the study.
“Emotions are often felt in the
body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious
emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily
sensations associated with different emotions using a unique
topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants were
shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories,
movies, or facial expressions. They were asked to color the bodily
regions whose activity they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing
each stimulus. Different emotions were consistently associated
with statically separable bodily sensation maps across experiments.
These maps were concordant across West European and East Asian
samples.” (1)
Regardless of race, gender, different
emotional states correlated with the same part of the body with the
majority of participants. Usually when you have a group as large as 700
people, your going to get pretty reliable and conclusive results.
“Emotions adjust not only our
mental, but our bodily states. This way they prepare us to react swiftly
to the dangers, but also to the opportunities such as pleasurable
social interactions present in the environment.” Lauri Nummenmaa, assistant professor in an Aalto University press release.
This study is yet another important
reminder of how emotions can impact the body. Do you pay attention to
the ways in which emotions affect your body, health, and others around
you? Finding your inner peace is a great way to improve your health.
How can we let go of emotions that don’t
serve us? Let’s take anger for example. Imagine that you are carrying a
tank of gasoline, and whatever it is in your external world that upsets
you, is the match. These can be concepts, thoughts, people, etc. All
you have to do is empty and let go of the tank of gasoline, and the
matches can’t start a blaze. You are always in control of your emotions,
your reactions are always your choice. It starts with looking at
yourself from an external perspective. Nobody else is to blame for your
different emotional states but yourself, although it might not always
seem that way.
Did you know that your heart emits
electromagnetic fields that change according to your emotions? That the
human heart’s magnetic field can be measured up to several feet away
from the body? That positive emotions create physiological benefits in
your body? That you can boost your immune system by conjuring positive
emotions? That negative emotions can create a nervous system chaos, but
positive emotions do the opposite? For more information on this, check
out the tremendous work that scientists and researchers are doing at The Instutue of Hearthmath.
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