Quotes About Emotion

brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

Memory is the capacity to carry forward in time some element of an experience.

emotional memories: A song can elicit a feeling, an association with an experience that took place years ago. The smell of roasted turkey or freshly baked bread may elicit a warm sense of belonging, or a melancholy sense of a lost past.

If you are loved, you learn to love.

Physical well-being and your emotional health are deeply connected.

This is where the sequence of engagement comes in. Without some degree of regulation, it is difficult to connect with another person, and without connection, there is minimal reasoning. Regulate, relate, then reason.

thinking" part of the brain, the lower brain has already interpreted and responded to it. It's matched the sensory input from the new experience against the catalog of stored memories of past experiences—before the smart part of your brain even has a chance to get involved.

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One of the things we don't appreciate in Western cultures is how powerful and important touch is to our physical and emotional growth.

You cannot love if you have not been loved.

The wise learn how to carry their burden with grace, often to protect others from the emotional intensity of their pain.

Oprah: Regulation, relationship, and reward.

to the top, "smart" part of our brain, we have to go through the lower, not-so-smart part. This sequential processing means that the most primitive, reactive part of our brain is the first part to interpret and act on the information coming in from our senses. Bottom line: Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

All incoming sensory information from the present moment is compared to and influenced by the "memories" of previous experiences

We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is the underlying cause of a therapy client's presenting symptom, the schema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and then profoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence of experiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidation research

Emotional memory converts the past into an expectation of the future, without our awareness, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

Memory research has established that learnings accompanied by strong emotion form neural circuits in subcortical implicit memory that are exceptionally durable, normally lasting a lifetime.

Lacan even goes so far as to classify ignorance as a passion greater than love or hate: a passion not to know.

Desire is a remedy for anxiety," as Lacan says in Seminar VIII, 430).

Toda una vida sin amor no cuenta, el amor es el agua de vida, ¡bébela con el alma y el corazón!

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. — Albert Einstein

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Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.