where do emotions come from?

Question

are they automological responses that come from responses to experience. or are they a subconscious comprehension state. or are they some other phenomenem?

Answer 1

People have all the information they've every taken in in the brains, either in their conciousness or sub-consciousness. That's a factor with regard to how each person will respond to an external event/situation or or else their own thoughts or whether they'll have much response at all.

For people who are mentally healthy there is a state of equilibrium with regard to the combination/levels of brain chemicals they have "going"

An example would be a fourteen-year-old boy who watches a tear-jerker WWII movie and can't be moved as compared with a WWII era woman who identifies with the movie. The boy may find it boring. The woman may find herself crying.

So first a person must respond to something external or internal in a way that evokes changes in brain chemicals, which in turn change what's going on in the body (for example, raise blood pressure or have other physiological responses to the chemicals triggered by the emotional response).

The brain then reacts to the change in the body (even if those changes are only changes in brain chemicals but also to the other physiological responses).

For example, the person who hears of a death initially is shocked or horrified. The brain and body work together to respond, and it doesn't take long before the brain is "numbed", which is often what allows a person to get through the first days after the death but which, with gradual decreases in degrees, allows the person to remain numb for some time after the death. As the idea of the loss becomes a little less dramatic the person is able to think of it later without having the more dramatic numbing effects.

In the case of women with PMS, there is the physiological event of being at a certain point in a cycle which can affect the emotions for a few days.

So emotions come - as far as I know - by beginning with the type of brain development a person has combined with all the information it has stored in their lifetime and by a response to an external or internal event (even, as in the case of the internal event of the menstrual cycle), with then triggers physiological changes, which then trigger more changes in brain chemicals until the person reaches a state of being able to begin to process something like an external event intellectually - which will then lead to the person's return to equilibrium.

Of course it seems to me that emotions can also be a "purely intellectual" thing, as in the case of a mother's loving her child. A mother grows "intellectually attached" to her child, values him/her, has an overwhelming wish to keep that child safe and happy (no matter how old the child may be), and is aware of how much that child means to her in the most dramatic way. This is a love that starts out with a little attachment to the newborn and grows and grows with the child. As the child gets to be in his late teens and into his early twenties, and with the awareness that the child is gradually finishing maturing, I've found that there is also a gradual diminishment of one way of seeing one's child and a new type of relationship established. From my own experience, this type of love is based pretty much in "intellectual roots"; and from my experience, the same process can occur with an adopted child as well as with a biological child.

From what I've heard, there are times when a sick person can have blood pressure altered once his/her child shows up - so even this "intellectual" emotion affects a person's brain chemicals

There are "emotions" , and there are "emotional responses". The above describes both.

I'm not an expert, but from my own experience I see very little relationship between any subconscious goings on and emotions .

Answer 2

Let's use simply lauguage everyone can understand.

Our thoughts are very powerful. What we choose to think on from second to second, will determine the words we will speak, and the emotions we experience from moment to moment. And finally the thoughts we think on continually Will determine our behavior, our actions.
"As a person thinks, so he will become!"

It is our choice to dwell, and think deeply on the things that enter our mind, or not to. We Can choose to think on, what is best for us to think on for the betterment of humanity as well as ourselves. Think on these things: Lovingkindness, Forgiveness, Humbleness, Friendliness, Non-Judgmental attitudes, Tolerance, Acceptance, etc. etc. And have a healthy, peaceful life within.

If a person learns to quiet his mind down, through Mindfulness Meditation done twice a day, 15 min at a time. He is able to hear all the thoughts that enter his mind. At that point he can choose to think on them, making them his own, or to just simply allow them to pass through without any concerns, or judgements.

Our thoughts determine who we are now, and who we will be tomorrow!

The most impt thing we can do as humans is to be in control of our own thoughts!

As we continuously do this, we are then in control of our destiny!!

Answer 3

Thoughts.

Answer 4

From Hypothalamus responses to environmental factors.

Answer 5

Feeling.

Answer 6

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