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Emotions are made of one or two different parts first off they are made up of thoughts and meanings in the form of "talking to self, pictures, movies" In your mind and then the second part are feelings. Feelings are physical sensations in the body and all emotions have a corresponding feeling in the body, which we will be able to elicit. As an example anxious folks will have a tendency to manifest the feelings of anxiety in their stomachs! ie "butterflies in stomach" It can also manifest in other parts of the body like strain in the legs, chest, heart so that the muscles are excessively tight.
So do babies have emotions? Well no babies only have feelings or physical sensations because they do not have language and language is needed to have emotions. You also need 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 will then also trigger feelings in the body of the baby. We'd usually identify them as emotions, but babies do not have language to do this so we call them feelings. How do we get emotions? Well are you able to imagine as a baby you will slowly accrue differing types of experiences, you will kind of group them into sections like all uncomfortable, bad, pain, happy, fun etc, and of course the baby isn't using the words its like a grouping of similar feelings together. Now we could say one day mum 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 suggests that this taste and feeling means yum and good. They could also go thru their memory and find all the other feelings and label them with these words too. So they now have the beginnings of emotions. Then as they grow older this continues and they form more complicated associations that become emotions as we all know them, they begin to layer them and blend them in many alternative ways to get very complex emotions and feelings as we associate with adults.
The next thing you've got to understand about emotions is they are self reflexive, for instance you might think of a memory and feel sorrowful then you can have feelings of guilt about feeling sad, then feel angry about feeling guilty, then anxious about being angry, then resentful about being anxious etc this could go 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, plenty of the clients here at Synergy Hypnotherapy Melbourne I see will come for anxiousness or depression only and after a little enquiry I find they've a host of feelings like anxiety, despondency, depression, anger, fear, guilt etc. I have never come across anyone who has only one emotion about an event or problem. I ask one or two different questions to get what is going on for my clients and let's have a look at one? "How do you feel about the past?" I will get the following combination, Unhappy, angry, guilty, shame, out of control. This is only one example I sometimes get many alternative combinations, the variations are big. I also get positive emotions as well however due to my job and the reason behind people coming to see me, it is generally the negative feelings that are the problem.
Meaning and understanding is an essential component of emotions, people associate totally different meaning to emotion from each other, and the behaviours that may manifest from the emotions and meaning. Lets take depressed people, they may make this mean, Im tied, disease, fear, anger, helpless, life is bad, Im not good enough. I could go on and on another person may make depression mean it happens often, goes swiftly part of life, happens to others etc. We can make it mean such a large variety of different things and everybody has many different 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 needed to have emotions. You also need 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 will then also trigger feelings in the body of the baby. We'd usually identify them as emotions, but babies do not have language to do this so we call them feelings. How do we get emotions? Well are you able to imagine as a baby you will slowly accrue differing types of experiences, you will kind of group them into sections like all uncomfortable, bad, pain, happy, fun etc, and of course the baby isn't using the words its like a grouping of similar feelings together. Now we could say one day mum 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 suggests that this taste and feeling means yum and good. They could also go thru their memory and find all the other feelings and label them with these words too. So they now have the beginnings of emotions. Then as they grow older this continues and they form more complicated associations that become emotions as we all know them, they begin to layer them and blend them in many alternative ways to get very complex emotions and feelings as we associate with adults.
The next thing you've got to understand about emotions is they are self reflexive, for instance you might think of a memory and feel sorrowful then you can have feelings of guilt about feeling sad, then feel angry about feeling guilty, then anxious about being angry, then resentful about being anxious etc this could go 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, plenty of the clients here at Synergy Hypnotherapy Melbourne I see will come for anxiousness or depression only and after a little enquiry I find they've a host of feelings like anxiety, despondency, depression, anger, fear, guilt etc. I have never come across anyone who has only one emotion about an event or problem. I ask one or two different questions to get what is going on for my clients and let's have a look at one? "How do you feel about the past?" I will get the following combination, Unhappy, angry, guilty, shame, out of control. This is only one example I sometimes get many alternative combinations, the variations are big. I also get positive emotions as well however due to my job and the reason behind people coming to see me, it is generally the negative feelings that are the problem.
Meaning and understanding is an essential component of emotions, people associate totally different meaning to emotion from each other, and the behaviours that may manifest from the emotions and meaning. Lets take depressed people, they may make this mean, Im tied, disease, fear, anger, helpless, life is bad, Im not good enough. I could go on and on another person may make depression mean it happens often, goes swiftly part of life, happens to others etc. We can make it mean such a large variety of different things and everybody has many different meanings or beliefs round the emotions that they experience.
About the Author:
Rodney Inns has been studying and working in the field of Read More 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, 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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