Proper emotions

When an emotion does exist as a proper emotion—that is, is part of the conscious cultural repertoire of a group—the awareness can affect the way the emotion is experienced as well as its role in social interaction. This effect may come about in several ways. 

A proper emotion can become subject to social norms, which may change how it is experienced. In a (modified) example from Arlie Hochschild (1979,567), a feminist mother who feels guilty about leaving her child in day care may feel ashamed of her guilt. 

TWi doe) not. mean that yon should never ut your emotional nature. On the contrary, you will bad it advantageous to play oMt the part often, for tto energy aroused by the emotions are plrongfy motive, and will enable you to accomplish much if it It properly applied. But, remember always, never allow younelf to become ennmbed aod involved in the emotional norms or activities, Handle the emotion as a Mister does an mjiruroent—but never yield yotuself up to your emotions as a passive slave or instrument, any more than you would yield yourself up to the power and influence of tame entity outside of yourself. 

Anticoagulants are used to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. Most patients who are on anticoagulants are elderly people with chronic heart and vascular diseases. From a TCM perspective, the blood becomes thicker and tends to coagulate when heat (often generated by stress and emotional disturbance) consumes the blood, or when phlegm accumulates as a result of Spleen deficiency. Kidney deficiency is a potential cause of this as the Kidney-Qi weakens with age and is unable to maintain the proper functioning of the Spleen and Liver. 

The best time to begin searching for new employment opportunities is while you are still employed. This eliminates a lot of the emotional and financial stress associated with having to land a job in order to obtain a paycheck. However, no matter what your reasons are for embarking on a new job search, it s important to show the proper respect toward your current employer, even if you consider yourself a disgruntled employee. 

Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes it undergoes. Every aspect of your patients physiology is a proper study of chemistry. Even such abstract processes as thought and emotion are believed to be based on biochemical processes in the brain. Therefore, it is appropriate that we review some essential concepts upon which chemistry is founded. 

To see such striking correlations is almost too good to be true and, in fact, they prompt us to consider a causal hypothesis in each case. The reason that dreams are so perceptually intense, so instinctive and emotional, and so hyperassociative is because the brain regions supporting these functions are more active. The reason that we can t decide properly what state we are in, can t keep track of time, place, or person, and can t think critically or actively is because the brain regions supporting these functions are less active. Could it be that simple Why not Much apparent complexity melts away when science comes up with a correct simplification. This is the true meaning of reductionism. 

Another example, dopamine, is a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger released by one nerve cell (neuron), which then binds to a receptor in a neighboring target cell (Figure 25.6). Dopamine affects brain processes that control movement and emotions, so proper dopamine levels are... 

As an example, my wife, who is a nurse specializing in neonatology, once told me about a premature infant who had died on her shift. The death had saddened her deeply. I felt a little sadness, said a sympathetic word, and put the matter out of my mind. A minute later I noticed that I had suddenly developed a headache. The news of the infant s death had actually touched me deeply, had been fully received and evaluated by my emotional brain, but my intellectual brain, preoccupied with its plans for the day, had handled the news intellectually instead of allowing my emotional brain to work properly. The resulting interference by the head with the appropriate heartache resulted in a headache. 

The capacity for emotional immersion into one s own problems under the influence of a psychoactive substance is provoked and amplified by the emergence of memories, as well as the elimination of the MeA ou boundary. As this process unfolds, the therapist gains valuable insights into existing psychopathologies and psychodynamics. Still, in addition to providing proper guidance for the patient, the therapist must... 

The Americans. .. enjoy explaining almost every act of their lives on the principle of self-interest properly understood. It gives them pleasure to point out how an enlightened self-love continually leads them to help one another and disposes them freely to give part of their time and wealth for the good of the state. I think that in this way they often do themselves less than justice, for sometimes in the United States, as elsewhere, one sees people carried away by the disinterested, spontaneous impulses natural to man. But the Americans are hardly prepared to admit that they give tvay to emotions of this sort. They prefer to give the credit to their philosophy rather than to themselves. (DA, p. 526 my italics). 

It is obvious that the manipulated brain of the masses, filled from birth with emotional misbeliefs, illusions, misinterpretations, myths, fantasies, motivates - given the right circumstances - irrational activities. In peaceful periods of the community rational brain activity is dominant and the irrational, emotional chaos is suppressed. There are specially organized occasions for the eruption of the volcano (concerts, sport-events, proper political party meetings, etc.). But in emotionally supersensitive, trying periods of the community (riots, revolutions, wars) the irrational brain becomes dominant. The immense literature that describes the history of mankind is, as a matter of fact, an exact description of the consequences of traditional manipulation of the human brain. 

Thus, (a) whenever a chain of ICRs is fixed in the human brain, the proper cortical neurons remain, on an unconscious level, constantly active for life, and (b) if the proper method is used, even a chain of ICRs that had never been ecphorized after fixation can be activated to the level needed for conscious perception at any later date. The recalling of any chain of ICRs is necessarily inseparable from an affective state of consciousness, due to the emotions coupled as appurtenances to the cortical neurons when they learned to cooperate with each other. Freud developed empirically sound methods for ecphorizing forgotten chains of ICRs in humans, decades after their fixation. 

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