Millions of sensory and motor neurons connect the emotional…
Millions of sensory and motor neurons connect the emotional brain with all the parts of the body, including the heart, lungs, stomach, skin, small intestine, large intestine, and muscles. If you take a mo-ment in the midst of feeling something, you will notice the experi-ence is physical.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Co
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Healthy feeling lets you keep your footing while you run; unhealthy feeling sweeps your legs out from under you. The core emotions themselves — anger, sadness, fear, disgust, joy, excitement — are neither good nor bad; each is simply a program with an impulse attached, and each is felt first in the body, not the head: the clenched stomach, the hot face, the tight chest. You feel before you know. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)