Feelings a bitch!

Emotion is the complex psycho physiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical (internal) and environmental (external) influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. Emotion is associated with mood, temperament, personality, disposition and motivation. Motivations direct and energize behavior, while emotions provide the affective component to motivation, positive or negative.

There are many theories on emotion and its cause, dating back from ancient Greece all the way to modern scientific experiment.

The James - Lange theory argues that emotional experience is largely due to the experience of bodily changes. This theory and its derivatives state that a changed situation leads to a changed bodily state. You then have the Neurobiological theory. This explanation of human emotion is that emotion is a pleasant or unpleasant mental state organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain.

These are just 2 of around 11 individual theories which is very interesting stuff however when going through many of these said emotions one tends not to give a flying rats ass what the cause is unless that cause has a face that you can punch, kiss or confront.

Just like art where you have your primary colors, you also have primary emotions. There are 6 primary emotions which consist of Excited, Tender, Scared, Angry, Sad and Happy. All of these categories have spans of sub categories of emotions we go through on a daily basis. Intimacy. Fear, antsy, nervous, rage, fury, dejection, depression, fulfillment, contentment. Some of which are stemmed from good social situations and some from bad.

I’m a person who bases all I know and most of what I believe on fact so thus the reason for my more serious blog however it seems no matter what factual evidence or findings I come across it doesn’t make me feel any better or any closer to understanding my own emotions while I’m in the middle of the bad ones. I run at a high voltage level of passion be in a positive or negative situation and with passion sometimes comes a serious lack of logic!

My theory is this though – too often our emotions are not dependant on our circumstance or our “changed situation” or the levels of serotonin in our brains but more so based on the individuals around us. We allow other human beings with different emotions to have the power and control to influence our emotion. We are happy when we feel safe and loved and we are having a good time, however we feel sad when we have been let down, or spoken to badly or dumped. The most important thing to keep in mind through all of this though, is that as human beings with the ability to feel emotion we have the power to make the choice. Maybe we can’t choose how we feel or who made us feel that way but I am beginning to believe that we can choose the length of time, we feel how we feel. It’s a natural progression, we lose, we grieve, we learn to cope, we get on with things, we survive and eventually things get better.

Its not ideal but it seems to be working so check my ass as I jump on this bandwagon to feeling better!

Peace, love and Rock n Roll!