Emotional These Days?

That’s the good news.

Our emotions outdo pigeons every day.

We see, hear, smell, taste or touch something, recall something and voíla! In a nanosecond our phenomenal brain taps its’ data base, transforms our chemistry and we get a message!

The message is delivered via emotion. I think of my daughter so far away, I tear up. I see my dog running after his ball, I smile. I hear Johnny Mathis sing and I’m sweet sixteen.

This is how we work.

The data base at the disposal of your brain is everything you have stored as a result of your experience, everything. Your experience began before you were born and it includes everything that occurred consciously and at the periphery of your consciousness. That ‘data’ is information. Your brain taps that information, your body is informed and you get the message.

It is more than a sixth sense. That data base and our ability to exploit it puts popular search engines to shame. Lucky you. Lucky me. That is some system.

Emotions have much in common with sensation. We get goose bumps, we get a sweater. We are thirsty, we drink a glass of water. Emotions and sensations are feedback systems designed (thank you very much) to help us navigate our lives.

Do you have a car? Think gas guage. It registers near empty; do you put a bandaid on it to block the feedback? I think not. You need the information. Do you mute your emotions? I think not. You need the information.

Our emotional life is to us, as color is to a black and white photo.