Emotional release

Emotional release needs to be constructive. It can be brought about through confrontation in the here and now , or by using recall, fantasy or role play to create emotionally laden experiences. Development workshops will often make use of such techniques. The emotional release not only enables you to let go of the past, it can also help dispel emotional blocks you may have had to going forward in a new direction. 

It is difficult when working on your self by yourself to contrive emotional release. But should reflection on events bring up feelings of, for example, regret or anger or elation, it would be appropriate in a suitable moment to give vent to that feeling. 

Adolf Leschnitzer, a Jewish historian of German origin, draws a close parallel between the persecution of Jews and of witches. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he writes, persecution of Jews was replaced by persecution of witches. Then the process was reversed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the late Middle Ages persecution of Jews can already be shown to have been staged as a device to divert attention. .. When, after the great persecutions, massacres, and expulsions from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century,... witches and sorcerers became the new subjects of persecution. With the disappearance of the Jews, they took their place as the desperately needed new outlet for emotional release. ... 

In order to provide the emotional release, which is one of the most important jobs of fiction, fiction must make a connection with the intended audience. There must be a sympathetic (you should forgive the term) bond forged. In modem, western society, men and women are, to an extent, raised in separate cultures. They are certainly raised, even now, with different cultural expectations. Whether the root of this difference is from nature or nurture I am not going to get into here. However, because the expectations the larger culture sets for our lives are different depending on our gender, it follows that the fantasies that are shaped by those lives and those expectations will be different. Men and women both have power fantasies. Both fantasize about sex, and success. But, in general, how those fantasies materialize is different. 

To calm horses, chamomile oil is added to their feed. Pneumonia in young elephants caused by Klebsiella is claimed to be healed by Lippia javanica oil. Rose and yarrow oils bring about emotional release in donkeys by licking them. Wounds in horses are treated with Achillea millefolium oil sweet itch is treated with peppermint oil. Matricaria recutita and A. millefolium oils are used to heal the skin with in ammatory conditions (Ingraham, 2008). 

Many patients experience an emotional release during an osteopathic manipulative treatment. They may laugh or cry, sometimes almost uncontrollably. A physician who is able to deal with these episodes can do much to relieve the patient s mental distress. 

Fatigue and lethargy are the most common side effects. Nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, and loss of appetite are seen. The most serious complication the author has heard of is hypopituitarism, after an intra-oral technique, which was a reversible problem. Emotional release, which may occur with any type of manipu-... 

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA ecstasy) is a synthetic analog of amphetamine that produces hallucinations, an elevation in mood, and a feeling of emotional closeness . This latter property has led to Ecstasy being referred to as the hug drag . The unique properties of Ecstasy as compared to the parent compound amphetamine are believed to be due to the more selective effects of Ecstasy in promoting transporter-mediated release of serotonin. The use of Ecstasy has become a part of the culture associated with rave style dance parties. 

Sustained stressor exposures, both physical and psychological, have been shown to shift the cytokine profiles of the immune cells toward the promotion of inflammation and allergic response. Neural circuitry underlying stress and emotion can also regulate inflammation. Peripheral inflammatory mediators, in turn, influence mood and cognitive functions. Depressive symptomatology has been associated with the same proinflamma-tory cytokines that are released during an asthmatic attack or in other forms of severe stressor exposure. 

Solve et Coagula, the motto of Alchemy, is repeated in text after text. Dissolve and congeal is the literal translation, but solidify is a better translation of coagula. Psychological commentators upon the Art have taken solve to refer to the releasing of psychic energy held within emotional complexes in the subconscious. This is valid, as far as it goes, but... 

If all species-wide behaviors are adaptive, however, this criterion is not specific for emotions. A stretch reflex is surely adaptive but is not an emotion. We can rule out reflexes as emotions because they do not involve the behavior of the whole organism they are local. So another criterion of an emotion might be involving the whole organism. In fact, many reflexes can be regarded as part of an emotion complex. The release of saliva in response to... 

Research based on the ethological tradition also can be placed within the emotions model framework, suggesting new avenues of research. There has been a great deal of research on infantile releasers of parental behavior—the infant schema, infant vocalizations,... 

The effects of both oxytocin and vasopressin are particularly responsive to reproductive steroids (Tables 7 and 8). Oxytocin and vasopressin are best known as neurohypophyseal peptides, released by the posterior pituitary. However, both peptides also are released within the nervous system. Receptors for oxytocin and vasopressin are distributed in areas of the CNS that have been implicated in reproduction, emotion and autonomic functions. 

In contrast to the evidence for primers, signalers, and modulators, there is no decent evidence to suggest that there are human releaser pheromones. That is not to argue that there are none but to state that there is no evidence for them at present. Nonetheless, products purported to be human releaser pheromones—specifically sex attractants—are widely available on the Internet. They go by such suggestive names as Scent of Eros, The Edge, Alter-ego, and Pheromone Additive. Many of these products contain either androstenone or androstenol, steroids of unknown influence on the human emotional state. 

Adverse effects. Cardiovascular crises are a possible risk emotional stress of the patient may cause sympathoadrenal activation with epinephrine release. The resulting rise in blood pressure can be all the more marked because persistent depression of sympathetic nerve activity induces supersen-sitivily of effector organs to circulating catecholamines. 

Van Bockstaele EJ, Colago EE, Valentino RJ (1998) Amygdaloid corticotropin-releasing factor targets locus coeruleus dendrites substrate for the co-ordination of emotional and cognitive limbs of the stress response. J Neuroendocrinol 10 743-757... 

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