Comments on: Emotions: Action-requiring neurological programs

By: What’s Up Next? Sunday, April 27, 2013 ~ Feelings as Parsley? | Street Giraffe

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:03:48 +0000

[...] When things are going well, all of your emotions (even the raging rapids ones) will respond to you and will resolve when you’ve paid attention to them and made whatever corrective actions they require. As the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio says, “emotions are action-requiring neurological programs.” [...]

By: Is it a Feeling or is it an Emotion? Revisited! « Karla McLaren

Is it a Feeling or is it an Emotion? Revisited! « Karla McLaren — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:32:27 +0000

[...] action-requiring neurological programs, emotions give you crucial information about every aspect of your world; you can’t think, [...]

By: Jane Jones

Jane Jones — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:07:39 +0000

Dear Karla: Wow! Incredible! I’ve always thought (and felt!) that the emotions were highly under-rated in our society as well. Not only are emotions so misunderstood (until now with your amazing research) they were so easily dismissed. To think that emotions do have such an amazing and dramatic impact upon our innermost and deepest parts of soulful being. As we can now properly gauge their impact on the entire spectrum or range of emotions. I find it so very interesting that there is a base emotion that takes form as various moods, etc, and how this plays and interacts into the huge spectral field of emotional language. I am also fascinated with how emotions effect our hormones (endocrine system, etc), and how hormones effect our emotions, and vice versa.

Now it is becoming much easier to fully understand how to work with our emotions by understanding them, and how very vital this information is for overall emotional health. The guess-work is taking out of the equation; thanks to your ground-breaking work! Also, the idea of Consciousness as it gives rise to thought-feeling forms and concept of self. Seems that emotions mirror or try to mirror an inner truth, allows us to uncover all the bs through emotional expression, to get to the vital truth, which to me is LOVE, the reason for the emotions; to balance the LOVE equation in our lives. Also, I find it most interesting that you do not see love as an emotion. Yes, there is love and then there is LOVE, and I sense it is an entity-energy (some may call it God, Divine Feminine, Sacred Masculine, whatever!) which does require a presence at all times in our lives or the emotions will create an upheaval. And for LOVE to say “pay attention, don’t let me, this entity known as LOVE get messed up, please don’t, for it is me, LOVE which absolutely needs to flow, grow and glow. Here is an emotion to help deal with this need I have, as LOVE to be here and now. And to do just this I absolutely need to be present in the now. So please give LOVE a wide berth always, let it flow or experience an unpleasant emotion which will only get better once more love is allowed to flow. And when love is allowed to flow all the time, you will be in a most blissful state of LOVE you will need nothing else! As LOVE I need to be fully alive in LOVE so please let LOVE grow and develop within the inner self and the outermost projection of beingness as naturally as the heartbeats”. Thoroughly enjoyed!

By: Karla

Karla — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:04:40 +0000

Hi Sean. When you say tense, do you mean fear, or anger? And are you losing your relaxation, or losing the bout?

By: Shame: The excruciating, exquisite, and indispensable emotion « Karla McLaren

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:00:12 +0000

[...] shame, it will recede naturally (and swiftly) once it has helped you make your correcting actions (Emotions are action-requiring neurological programs). Then, your contentment and happiness will arise naturally, and you’ll move forward as a [...]

By: sean

sean — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:17:29 +0000

I was given a link here from a friend. I am a martial artist and am seeking to increase my skill which requires a certain level of relaxation. the issue i’m having is an emotional response, or reflex if you will. when i’m in a bad situation, I find myself tense and hard for a fraction of a second, causing me to lose. I tried many things to figure out why, and correct it, but cannot. was wondering if you could give guidance? thank you.

By: Emotion Theater! « Karla McLaren

Emotion Theater! « Karla McLaren — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:19:42 +0000

[...] is a physiological experience (or state of awareness) that gives you information about the world (emotions are action-requiring neurological programs), and a feeling is your conscious awareness of the emotion itself. I hadn’t really understood [...]

By: Patricia Yager Delagrange

Patricia Yager Delagrange — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:03:58 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write to me. I appreciate that a lot. I know about the “flight or fight” syndrome which keeps my adrenalin in overdrive and is bad for my body. Several years ago I bought the tapes made by Luncinda Bassett on Anxiety and WOW I have to say after the MANY counselors I’ve seen over the years, she was the only one to help me. I’m doing much better now and this horse “anxiety” is different from the day-to-day anxiety I was living with and still struggle with off and on. I wish there was an equine psychotherapist but I don’t think so. Although I live in the San Francisco Bay Area you’d THINK there should be someone, but according to my friend who sent me your website, I guess not.
I like what you write and found some of it really hit home.
Thank you again.
Patti Yager Delagrange

By: Karla

Karla — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:36:33 +0000

Hi Patricia, thanks for your response. I changed the sentence that used to say "checked out medically," to "checked out," because with fear, you can check on it yourself, or work with a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. It's only if these two things don't work that it might be good to see a doctor and maybe consider an anti-anxiety med. Mood-state or raging rapids fear can really wreak havoc throughout the body, because its purpose is to orient you and get you ready for action, just in case there's danger. That's great when there's danger, but if there isn't anything dangerous going on, too much fear can be very destabilizing, and it can wear out your adrenals. I'd check in with the horseback-riding situation. Is the fear trying to tell you something, for instance, that maybe you have a balance problem and are in danger of falling, or that the horse might do something kooky and endanger you? My first question with any emotion is, "Okay, this is what this emotion is for. Is there any external reason why it's being activated so often?" When we know what it's responding to, we can either complete the action, or find a way to address the situation that's sent the emotion into a feedback loop. This post on the difference between feelings and emotions may be helpful, and this post about anxiety might be helpful as well.

By: Patricia Yager Delagrange

Patricia Yager Delagrange — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:23:42 +0000

Very interesting theory about emotions, especially when you say that you can have an appropriate emotional response but if that response is going on all day long without any specific “reason” behind what’s causing it, that emotion should be “checked out”. That made me really ponder my “fear” when I ride horses. It grabs me and hangs on even when it should have dissipated…..hmmmm