Ada discovers Brain Awareness Week

How do our feelings affect our nervous system?

 I understand that all of our nerves are connected to our brains, but when we experience an emotion is that happening in our brain?  Is an emotion like a thought? Why or why not?  If you suffer from grief do you feel it in your head, heart, or the pit of your stomach?  When you are in love dis your heart go pitter patter or do you have butterflies in your stomach?  Does the body send the brain messages to remember these sensations, or are they held in the body?  As an Emotion Code Practitioner I have watched people experience a relief of pain once they have let go of emotions they held energetically but no longer find useful.  Dr. Bradley Nelson tells us a trapped emotion is about the size of a grapefruit.  Carrying on this kind of baggage seems like a chore.  

So, I believe we may be saving children a lot of discomfort in their lives if we can teach them early on how to build an emotional vocabulary, how to express their feelings, and finally how to process a feeling they have without hurting others.  I believe research will eventually answer these questions even more fully.  I would like to find out what others believe about this.

Ada asks about the nervous system.

Why do we ignore our own human emotions, when in reality they are there for a reason?

Ada and I met a new friend at the Sunshine State Book Festival! Dr. Jaya Viswanathan  explained the importance of feelings for animals to us.  I am really learning a lot about this from her new book 'Baby Senses: A Sensory Neuroscience Primer for All Ages.' I believe that emotions are there for a reason.  They protect us.  They even protect fish as Dr. Jaya explains.  Why is it so important to block the teaching of emotional learning in the state of Florida?  I can not comprehend this.

Ada learns how others feel.

Disgust helps us survive.

 Since the beginning of time human beings have felt disgust.  It has kept us from eating things that are unhealthy.  It has kept us in good health.  It is a primal emotion.  Disgust is often used to persuade others that it is ok to look at differences with disdain.  It is important to talk with young ones about disgust.  If we truly know our emotions and feelings they can not be used against us.  Lately a politician was talking about others as vermin.  This is an example of using disgust to pit people against one another.  If we can look at disgust as a basic human emotion that is there to serve and can be ameliorated much peace could be had.  I hope my book on disgust will do this.

Ben is disgusted.