We tense up when we're angry, our hearts race when we're scared. The mind/body connection has long been linked to our survival.
in the body – first, by eliciting emotions in individuals through movies and stories, and then, having study participants color where those emotions were felt in a map of the human body. The majority of participants colored in similar areas, no matter their sex or nationality. Nummenmaa says that physical manifestations of emotions are largely ubiquitous because they’re rooted in our survival. When we’re fearful, for example, we prepare to run away by adjusting both our brain and bodily state.
The insular cortex, a thin line of gray matter between the temporal and parietal lobes of the brain, controls interoceptor activity, a data center of information flowing continuously and keeping us primed for reaction. Additionally, sensory receptors in the eyes, ears, nose and mouth relay information from the outside world to our inside world where our internal organs have their own set of sensory receptors, says Nummenmaa.
When we’re angry, for example, many of the emotions are felt in the trunk of the body, likely a prehistoric need to protect ourselves and get ready to fight, activating cardiac systems and slowing digestion. When we’re depressed, he says, we tend toward a flight mode, where energy expenditure is at its lowest. On the other hand, when we’re happy we feel sensations throughout the body.
Sean Grover, a New York psychotherapist and author, says that like pain, muscular tension in the body is also tied to chronic emotional states.
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