Feeling
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Feelings are the subjective processes by which the mind and body interact.
Sensations flow from the senses to the mind (mostly through the nervous system), and the mind’s subconscious evaluations form emotions which alter the body’s physiology (largely through the release of hormones). Together, we call these “feelings.”
For the mind’s more consciously agentic processes, see The Intellect.
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A Bengali man laughs with his sister as she smears turmeric paste on his arms in preparation for his wedding in 2012. Behind them a small band seated on plastic chairs plays music. Touch, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and ideas trigger emotional reactions in humans. In this case, presumably, joy. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Thinking, ‘I will free both hands,’ he seizes it with his foot; he gets caught there.
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… if someone were to say: ‘[Sensual pleasure] is the highest pleasure and joy that can be experienced,’ I would not concede that. And why not? Because there is another kind of pleasure which surpasses that
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… even trifling forms that enter into range of the eye obsess the mind, not to speak of those that are prominent. For what reason? Because lust still exists
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Mendicants, ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures…
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Is the eye the fetter of forms or are forms the fetter of the eye?
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… what now is feeling?
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Then at that time many moths rushing and falling down into those oil lamps, were coming to grief, were coming to ruin.
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Perceiving is the process by which evanescent sensations are linked to environmental cause and made enduring and coherent through the assignment of meaning, utility, and value.
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Acute tissue injury activates an ensemble of interdependent nervous, endocrine, and immune processes that operate in concert and comprise a supersystem. Some chronic pain conditions result from supersystem dysregulation. Individuals vary and are vulnerable to dysregulation due to the unique interactions of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors and past experiences that characterize each person.
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Citta and Related Concepts in the Sanskrit Manuscripts from the Turfan Finds (2000) – Siglinde Dietz
[an] investigation into the notion of citta and the related concepts cetas and cetanā
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Homeownership, as it has evolved in the United States, often turns its beneficiaries against progress and change.
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Feminine-named hurricanes cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness.
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To strike the right balance of a benign enough violation without offending your audience requires some brains. Funny people are indeed smart
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we show that long-term memory is capable of storing a massive number of objects with details from the image. Participants viewed pictures of 2,500 objects over the course of 5.5 h. Afterward, they were shown pairs of images and indicated which of the two they had seen.
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Reported emotional states occupy a complex, high-dimensional categorical space.
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Mechanisms that detect and respond to threats are not the same as those that give rise to conscious fear.
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Saliva, sweat, semen and body odours are among the strongest disgust elicitors. This results in the intriguing question of how people succeed in having pleasurable sex at all.
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In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expressions. They were asked to color the bodily regions whose activity they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing each stimulus. Different emotions were consistently associated with statistically separable bodily sensation maps across experiments. These maps were concordant across West European and East Asian samples.
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Subjective feelings are a central feature of human life, yet their relative organization has remained elusive. We mapped the “human feeling space” for 100 core feelings ranging from cognitive and affective processes to somatic sensations; in the analysis, we combined basic dimension rating, similarity mapping, bodily sensation mapping, and neuroimaging meta-analysis.
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We demonstrate that exertion of self-control for as little as 45 min can lead to an increased propensity for engaging in aggressive acts in the context of socially relevant choices, as measured by a set of economic games. Also, we show that such behavioral changes are associated with increased sleep-like (delta) activity within frontal brain areas related to decision-making and impulse control.
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We found that Russian speakers were faster to discriminate two colors when they fell into different linguistic categories in Russian than when they were from the same linguistic category. Moreover, this category advantage was eliminated by a verbal, but not a spatial, dual task.
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We want the clarification, we want the instruction, but we want it without the discomfort, but it doesn’t work that way. The discomfort is the source of the clarification and the instruction.
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Experiment and have fun with it.
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… emotions are not biologically hardwired into our brains but are constructed by our minds
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What does it do to a person to study delight? Or, as it emerges, to study joy every single day? What do you discover?
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Where our individual perception meets the external world: that point of focus is the juncture between inner and outer space. It’s where we and nature find union. It’s the home of the muse, of inspiration, even of what have been called ‘angels’ which the visionaries saw shining in that meeting place between the eye of the observer and the light of the observed.
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It’s the kind of story that displaces other stories, easily sweeps them aside, which is what happened with Dan…
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I have no head to hang in grief
But there’s no hope for me
I’ve been set free
There’s no breeze
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Climate control has made our indoor spaces thermally monotonous.
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What noise does.
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Aesthetic beauty is as much about how (and whether) you look as what you see. From the cork to the supernova, wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply: our willingness to do the work that awe requires.
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gazing into coals,
I skydive and pass through
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to work perfectly.
To simulate pleasure perfectly. To not cry at dinner5 min -
a crow
Shook down on me…5 min -
Devoured in secret,
she was punished for eating it
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I keep
a beautiful garden, all abundance,
indiscriminate, pulling itself
from the stubborn earth: does it offend you5 min -
Inside me lived a small donkey…
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Pigment presses out
you in
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laurel
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firm in texture,
brimming with natural juices.5 min -
Ah poetry,
god of molting turkeys, save
my brother from the truck5 min -
Take a picture and tell the world
what it means, only I wasn’t sure…5 min -
he was still petting the puppy’s wet head,
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