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Emotions and your brain

Emotions and your brain

- Emotions are these sticky, tricky feelings that can be amazing resources or create challenges. And discovering the neuroscience behind your emotions can truly free you. Mapping out your emotional reactions and behaviors will help you navigate unchartered waters of your emotions. In this lesson, I'll train you in my process to survey and scale your emotions while building your emotional resources. The neuroscience of emotions gives you insight into the behaviors driven by your primal emotions. It's key to understand the language of your emotions, especially since not all emotions last for the same length of time. A team of researchers in Belgium conducted a survey of college students and found that the duration of emotions are not all equal. From the list of 27 universal emotions, researchers discovered that sadness was the longest lasting for the students, with its impact lasting 120 hours. Anxiety lasted 24 hours.…

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