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Are we a slave to our emotions?

RSA Conversations

CHAPTER

How to Control Your Emotions

Emotions are a bodily experience. You feel things in your got, not in your head. Your reaction when you have an emotion triggered is very physical. So why does the hair on the back of my arm stand up? That's not in my migdother. And why is my body about to run away? It's still the body having a physical reaction. This notion of controlling our emotions also connected to the notion of the distinction between mind and body.

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