Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Is Your Words an Invitation to Experience Your Emotions?
You are not a passive receiver of sensory input, but an active constructor of your emotions. Your brain is doing what it always does, which is guessing at the meaning of their facial movements and the sound of their voice. Every word that you use for emotion, angry, sad, happy, full of awe or full of gratitude, every emotion word is an invitation to experience those emotions. Theyare taking cues from the words that you use to describe your own feelings, also to communicate what you perceive them as experiencing.
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