Are Mapped On The Human ****
It’s well known that attitudes, emotions and feelings affect our **** in a variety of ways. For example, feelings of hopelessness
affect the ****’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 ****. Emotions such as anger, impacted the **** 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 ****
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 ****, 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.”
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Regardless of race, gender, different emotional states
correlated with the same part of the **** 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 ****.
Do you pay attention to the ways in which emotions
affect your ****, health, and others around you? Finding
your inner peace is a great way to improve your health.
