Emotions are made from one or two different elements first off they're made of thoughts and meanings in the shape of "talking to self, pictures, movies" In your mind and then the second component are feelings. Feelings are physical sensations in the body and all emotions have a corresponding feeling in the body, which we can elicit. As an example anxious folk will tend to manifest the feelings of anxiety in their stomachs! ie "butterflies in stomach" It also can manifest in other parts of the body like tension in the legs, chest, heart so that the muscles are overly tight.
So do babies have emotions? Well no babies only have feelings or physical sensations because they do not have language and language is required to have emotions. You also require a certain level of consciousness or ability to think. These feelings or physical sensations take the shape of warm, cold, soft hard, different tastes, and all other types of physical sensations, this could then also trigger feelings in the body of the baby. We would normally identify them as emotions, but babies do not have language to do this so we call them feelings. How do we acquire emotions? Well can you imagine as a baby you will slowly collect different kinds of experiences, you may kind of group them into sections like all uncomfortable, bad, pain, happy, fun etc, and of course the baby is not using the words its like a grouping of similar feelings together. Now we could say one day mother is feeding baby ice-ream and saying Yum, Good repeatedly, then a light goes off in the babies mind and they get the word which implies this taste and feeling means yum and good. They could also go thru their memory and find all other feelings and label them with these words as well. So they now have the beginnings of emotions. Then as they get older this continues and they form more complex associations that become emotions as we know them, they start to layer them and combine them in many alternative ways to get really complicated feelings and emotions as we associate with adults.
The next thing you need to understand about emotions is they are self reflexive, for instance you might think of a memory and feel unhappy then you can feel guilty about feeling sad, then feel angry about feeling guilty, then anxious about being angry, then resentful about being anxious etc this could go on and on for ever. This is what it means to be self reflexive about our emotions.
We also can feel may different things about events etc, lots of the clients here at Synergy Hypnotherapy Melbourne I see will come for anxiety or depression only and after a little enquiry I find they have a host of feelings like anxiety, despondency, depression, anger, fear, guilt for example. I have not come across anyone who has only 1 emotion about an event or problem. I ask one or two different inquiries to get what is happening for my clients and let's look at one? "How do you feel about the past?" I'm going to get the following combination, Unhappy, angry, guilty, shame, out of control. This is only 1 example I usually get many various combinations, the variations are big. I also get positive feelings as well however due to my job and the explanation for clients coming to see me, it is usually the bad emotions that are the difficulty.
Meaning and understanding is a main part of emotions, people associate very different meaning to emotion from each other, and the behaviors that may manifest from the emotions and meaning. Lets take depressed people, they may make this mean, Im tied, illness, fear, anger, powerless, life is bad, Im not good enough. I could go on and on another person may make depression mean it occurs often, goes quickly , part of life, happens to other folks for example. We will make it mean such a big variety of different things and everyone has many various meanings or beliefs round the emotions that they experience.
So do babies have emotions? Well no babies only have feelings or physical sensations because they do not have language and language is required to have emotions. You also require a certain level of consciousness or ability to think. These feelings or physical sensations take the shape of warm, cold, soft hard, different tastes, and all other types of physical sensations, this could then also trigger feelings in the body of the baby. We would normally identify them as emotions, but babies do not have language to do this so we call them feelings. How do we acquire emotions? Well can you imagine as a baby you will slowly collect different kinds of experiences, you may kind of group them into sections like all uncomfortable, bad, pain, happy, fun etc, and of course the baby is not using the words its like a grouping of similar feelings together. Now we could say one day mother is feeding baby ice-ream and saying Yum, Good repeatedly, then a light goes off in the babies mind and they get the word which implies this taste and feeling means yum and good. They could also go thru their memory and find all other feelings and label them with these words as well. So they now have the beginnings of emotions. Then as they get older this continues and they form more complex associations that become emotions as we know them, they start to layer them and combine them in many alternative ways to get really complicated feelings and emotions as we associate with adults.
The next thing you need to understand about emotions is they are self reflexive, for instance you might think of a memory and feel unhappy then you can feel guilty about feeling sad, then feel angry about feeling guilty, then anxious about being angry, then resentful about being anxious etc this could go on and on for ever. This is what it means to be self reflexive about our emotions.
We also can feel may different things about events etc, lots of the clients here at Synergy Hypnotherapy Melbourne I see will come for anxiety or depression only and after a little enquiry I find they have a host of feelings like anxiety, despondency, depression, anger, fear, guilt for example. I have not come across anyone who has only 1 emotion about an event or problem. I ask one or two different inquiries to get what is happening for my clients and let's look at one? "How do you feel about the past?" I'm going to get the following combination, Unhappy, angry, guilty, shame, out of control. This is only 1 example I usually get many various combinations, the variations are big. I also get positive feelings as well however due to my job and the explanation for clients coming to see me, it is usually the bad emotions that are the difficulty.
Meaning and understanding is a main part of emotions, people associate very different meaning to emotion from each other, and the behaviors that may manifest from the emotions and meaning. Lets take depressed people, they may make this mean, Im tied, illness, fear, anger, powerless, life is bad, Im not good enough. I could go on and on another person may make depression mean it occurs often, goes quickly , part of life, happens to other folks for example. We will make it mean such a big variety of different things and everyone has many various meanings or beliefs round the emotions that they experience.
About the Author:
Rodney Inns has been studying and working in the field of Click Here for over 5 years. On his business internet site he has more info for clients inquisitive about booking in for a session for help with Synergy Hypnotherapy, give up smoking, Phobia?s to name a few. He also has a blog where he has more information on Hypnotherapy, NLP and rapid change work.
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