Emotions And Its Effects On The Mind And Soul

The ability to identify emotion and carry it out into one’s daily life is what defines an individual as human; if one lacks emotion, then the individual will become a robot of society. Emotion is defined as a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

Emotions are used in our everyday lives help us understand and comprehend a situation. The way we feel can affect the way we think through a situation and the situation that we make. Our emotions are expressed when we play sports, when a loved one dies, or when we see our newly born baby for the first time. Emotions are a state of consciousness like joy, sorrow, fear, hate, and love. Whenever we are presented with a situation, our brain responds in feelings, and our feeling determine what will happen next.

Attempts to define “emotion” have proved to be rather difficult. Instead of searching for a comprehensive definition, Gross (2011) describes the three core features of emotions. First, emotions occur when an individual decides that a situation is relevant to his or her goals. Second, emotions are multi-faceted, and involve both subjective and physiological experiences, as well as behaviors. The third feature involves the authoritative nature of emotions. They have the powerful ability to interrupt ongoing processes, assert their priority over other activities, and force their way into awareness. For example, some traditions describe emotions as “disorganized interruptions of mental activity” (Salovey & Mayer, 1989). Emotions are such an

Sadness, fear, and anger are emotions that many people view as strictly negative. Society assumes these emotions’ only purpose is to damage people’s lives, and because these emotions are viewed as harmful, many people try to avoid them. However, these emotions are not given the credit they deserve. People encourage others to be optimistic and positive, but human beings are not supposed to be always happy. Negative emotions are surprisingly significant because they offer many benefits that positive emotions do not, but positive emotions are necessary as well. People’s lives are supposed to have a balance of each emotion in order to stay mentally and physically healthy. Even though people attempt to be happy all the time, they should accept

Emotions are a necessary part of our whole humanity. They may be more than we have learned to be comfortable with, but they are not too much.

In contrast,emotion is a strong feeling which is shown and connects to other factors such as a person’s circumstances, mood or relationships with others. However, individuals who interact with people and things as part of their daily lives, play a part in anybody’s emotional state, making them feel positively or negatively about that experience.

The term “emotional” tends to be synonymous with the terms “irrational” and “chaotic”. People see those who are emotional as uncontrollable. However, people experiencing strong emotions are being guided but not being forced into any action; they are not uncontrollable. As David Brooks writes in his book “The Social Animal,” that when a person is experiencing a strong emotion, such as happiness, “the mind is sorting and coding. The body is responding. The heart speeds. Adrenaline rises. A smile opens up. Signals are flowing from body and brain and back again in quick intricate loops” (20). From this example, we can see that the person experiencing a strong emotion is not irrational or chaotic. On the contrary, the person is being guided by the

Emotions are an important part of the human being life. When humans express their emotions, they are displaying everyone else how they really feel about the current situation. Emotions are a big stitching to the quilt of shared humanity. When humans share their emotions, they find other humans who are also having these same emotions. Emotions allow humans to show how they are feeling about an event or situation and allow others to understand how they are feeling as well.

In introspection, one does not entirely know the origin nor the idea of emotions. That is why one is truly feeling such emotions and what these emotions are. In the question of truly knowing what emotions are, one is not fully equipped for understanding what they are. For instance, are they

Emotions involve doing that which suits your carnal mind or that which pleases others, Abraham did that and the consequence was Ishmael. It can also do that which makes you feel good or to make you to be accepted. Cain allowed his selfish emotions to make him kill his brother Abel (Gen 4). To a large extent our emotions runs our behavior so it must be under control.

Emotions, an affective state of consciousness, different from cognitive and volitional states, in which fear, sadness, joy, anger, hate ect. is experienced. Emotions are a grand part of life when they include feelings of euphoria, happiness, content and satisfaction, but emotions such as loneliness, sadness, grief, bereavement, are not so welcome at the emotional door. Emotions seem to be a natural born part of life, adapted to what one has been taught throughout their life, while other emotions oftentimes seems inappropriate. Life has taught me that emotions are plentiful, often overwhelming, and understanding a reason for the emotion, and the best route to handle both the situation and the feelings that have come along with it, is incredibly important. I have encountered relationships of all kinds, starting with my parents and family then friends, employers, co-workers and neighbors. Each of these relationships has taught me different emotions and their appropriateness in the social realm. The emotional discussion journals made it quite obvious that emotions are dictated by culture, biology, nurture, and the reactions to these emotions were very similar across the board. I learned that many of the emotions I have had at different intervals in my life are shared with others as well. I grew up in a home that discouraged any emotion, sometimes even joy and satisfaction, which has resulted in a lifelong battle of emotions. Am I right to feel this, or am I wrong?

The purpose of life, to some degree, is to seek happiness and to seek out other people to achieve that happiness. Sigmund Freud developed this idea, which is known as the pleasure principle, claiming to explain that the human consciousness and subconsciousness revolve around this idea. If someone is isolated, then they will try to alleviate that suffering in one way or another. Human emotion is reduced to extremely simple terms, unlike what they truly are, which is extremely complex. The idea of reducing humans to such a simple understanding seems unfair, but it carries a sense of truth to it. Every person on Earth is seeking for pleasure, and it carries truth because no person appreciates the feeling of unpleasantness. Isolation is a defense method against the world to seek pleasure and to avoid unpleasant feelings in life. Freud believes that everyone attempts to get away from things that cause us pain and suffering and that everyone feels suffering as a result of society, but the way people attempt to alleviate this suffering defines us as a person.

When talking about emotion it seems a fairly simple topic and immediately "feeling" words come to mind; sad, happy, and confused. These are basic emotions and easy to understand. What isn't so simple about emotions is their process and how they form and work. Emotions are reactions to sensory information like sight, smell, taste, touch and sound (Tracing Emotion’s Pathways 94). However, it is not that simple; an emotional reaction or response is made aware of and understood by a part of the brain called the sensory cortex. These emotional responses or reactions to sensory stimuli are processed by a part of the brain called the amygdala (What’s An Emotion). The amygdala is a huge asset to the cognitive factors of emotions because in processing emotions you become able to understand, recognize, and control them. So then how do emotions evoke a physiological reaction such as tearing up when one feels sad, laughing with joy, and trembling with fear? These physiological reactions that one may experience come from the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is, “a collection of fibers that extend throughout

When we consider the sensations and perceptions of our mind we find that there are a lot of connections. The pathways that connect our eyes, our nose, and our ears to our brain are very complicated. Therefor I have explained them to you in the following paragraphs. We then moved on to advertisements and how they connect to our sensations.

It is unbelievable and almost unimaginable living our lives without ever having a feeling. As human beings we are forced to reckon with the feelings and emotions of ourselves and often at times the feelings and emotions of others around us. We all know what it is like to feel and to have emotions. They are the everyday things we do such as love our family and hate our enemy, have anger towards the one who made us mad and fearful of the person who makes us scared, have pride over our work ethics and jealousy of another’s knowledge and skills. Feelings and emotions drive us to certain states of mind that sometimes are controllable and sometimes are not. To live our lives is to experience all sorts of feelings of pleasure and displeasure, happiness and sadness, or anger and contentment. Leonard Berkowitz explains in his book Causes and Consequences of feelings that our thoughts, judgments, memories and interactions with others can be directly affected as a result of experiencing pleasure of displeasure. “Emotions, moods, and even our physical sensations can distort our judgments, alter what ideas occur to us, alter what we remember, and affect our behavior to those around us” (Berkowitz). More importantly, having emotions and feelings can generate error, lead to false recollections and mistaken judgments or decision. This may be because emotions are motivational, they act as motives and are related to our level of arousal. An emotion is a conscious experience involving