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Invasive Emotions, Feelings, and Thoughts

Invasive Emotions and Feelings Invasive emotions and feelings are lower-minded subcortical storyless processes. The highly uncomfortable feelings you’re experiencing are not generated in the cortical executive part of the brain. But the left hemisphere cortex generates stories to give context … Continue reading

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Primary Emotions

Primary Emotions The brain is built from the bottom up. At the bottom is the reptilian brain and surrounding the top of the brain is the neocortex or as Jack Panksepp would put it, our “thinking cap.”  In between is … Continue reading

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