Emotions in sentence

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This was the very reason why we made music, that we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we're able to shape those emotions into reality.

Neither can I, and neither can you, and that's because emotions are not what we think they are.

We have misunderstood the nature of emotion for a very long time, and understanding what emotions really are has important consequences for all of us.

I have studied emotions as a scientist for the past 25 years, and in my lab, we have probed human faces by measuring electrical signals that cause your facial muscles to contract to make facial expressions.

It may feel to you like your emotions are hardwired and they just trigger and happen to you, but they don't.

So what are emotions, really?

Well, strap on your seat belt, because ... emotions are guesses.

But the bottom line is that emotions are not built into your brain at birth.

The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions.

So the lesson here is that emotions that you seem to detect in other people actually come in part from what's inside your own head.

But these simple feelings are not emotions.

And sometimes, those constructions are emotions.

And so the lesson here is that emotions which seem to happen to you are actually made by you.

You have more control over your emotions than you think you do.

But I am telling you that you have more control over your emotions than you might imagine, and that you have the capacity to turn down the dial on emotional suffering and its consequences for your life by learning how to construct your experiences differently.

Not because you're culpable for your emotions, but because the actions and the experiences that you make today become your brain's predictions for tomorrow.

It's so big, in fact, that sometimes people feel the need to resist the scientific evidence that emotions are built and not built in.

The idea that we are responsible for our own emotions seems very hard to swallow.

If you generalize this, the most favorite TEDTalks are those that feature topics we can connect with, both easily and deeply, such as happiness, our own body, food, emotions.

And, eventually, we became interested in emotions.

Now, when we have emotions, we show them.

Why do we show our emotions?

I mean, there would be an advantage to experiencing our emotions inside, you know, anger or happiness.

And so this function of emotions suggests that, in addition to any other purpose they serve, they're a kind of primitive form of communication.

And that, in fact, if we really want to understand human emotions, we need to think about them in this way.

Now, we're accustomed to thinking about emotions in this way, in simple, sort of, brief periods of time.

And so there's a very instinctive way in which we briefly transmit emotions to each other.

Maybe, in fact, emotions have a collective existence, not just an individual existence.

So, this work with emotions, which are so fundamental, then got us to thinking about: Maybe the fundamental causes of human social networks are somehow encoded in our genes.

So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness.

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