The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.
Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
