The neural system for emotions linked to approaching and engaging with the world – like happiness, pride and anger – lives in the left side of the brain, while emotions associated with avoidance – like disgust and fear – are housed in the right. But those studies were done almost exclusively on right-handed people.
Language functions, in the majority of the people, are lateralized to the left hemisphere, whereas emotion, especially negative emotion, attention and arousal seem to be lateralized to the right hemisphere.
The researchers found that most basic emotions were tied to greater activity in the upper chest area, likely corresponding to the emotions' effects on breathing and heart rate. Sensations were also commonly felt in the head, likely reflecting facial expressions and mental activity.
Emotional information is stored through “packages” in our organs, tissues, skin, and muscles. These “packages” allow the emotional information to stay in our body parts until we can “release” it. Negative emotions in particular have a long-lasting effect on the body.
The left hemisphere is dominant for processing positive emotions whereas the right hemisphere is dominant for processing negative emotions. According to the valence hypothesis, fear, anger, disgust and sadness are considered negative emotions, and happiness and surprise are classified as positive emotions.
The neural system for emotions linked to approaching and engaging with the world – like happiness, pride and anger – lives in the left side of the brain, while emotions associated with avoidance – like disgust and fear – are housed in the right.
Although a left visual hemifield (i.e. right-hemisphere) bias is often found for emotional perception in general, some studies of normal healthy volunteers have shown a valence-specific effect suggesting that negative emotions are recognized more readily within the left visual field (LVF) (i.e. right hemisphere), while ...
03/6Anger - Liver
The emotion of anger is associated with the choleric humor and can cause resentment and irritability. It is believed that this emotion is stored in the liver and gall bladder, which contain bile. Anger can cause headaches and hypertension which can in turn affect the stomach and the spleen.
Exercise helps your body burn off adrenaline, release endorphins, calm your nervous system, and relieve stress. While any physical movement can help get your energy moving, some forms of exercise are especially helpful for trauma.
Take time to slow down and be alone, get out into nature, make art, listen to music while you cook your favorite dinner, meditate to cleanse your mind and relax your body, take a bubble bath or a nap to restore.
The most common areas we tend to hold stress are in the neck, shoulders, hips, hands and feet. Planning one of your stretch sessions around these areas can help calm your mind and calm your body. When we experience stressful situations whether in a moment or over time, we tend to feel tension in the neck.
Fear and anxiety are also frequently stored in this area, particularly as a physical response to danger (as the neck is a vulnerable area) or strange environments.
The right foot and the right side of the body represent the male aspect of the personality, which also translates to the relationship to the father. The left side of the body represents the female aspect of the personality, as well as the relationship to the mother.
The left channel carries the energy of desire and it correlates to our past experiences — emotions, memories, desires and affections for others. Desires trigger emotions.
A paired, almond-shaped structure deep within the brain, the amygdala integrates emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation.
"In a fight or flight situation, your muscles respond by tensing up. If you think of your pelvis as the center point for your body to work off of when trying to get away from trauma, and your body's response to trauma includes making your muscles tense, it makes sense that your hips tend to store a lot of tension."
Treatment for trauma
By concentrating on what's happening in your body, you can release pent-up trauma-related energy through shaking, crying, and other forms of physical release.
To sum up, since hip muscles are where emotions are trapped caused by events that switch your fight or flight mode, working on deep tissues in hip-focused postures like pigeon pose can release both physical and emotional stress.
Guilt, Fishkin says, is associated with activity in the prefrontal cortex, the logical-thinking part of the brain. Guilt can also trigger activity in the limbic system. (That's why it can feel so anxiety-provoking.)
Sensations in the digestive system and around the throat region were mainly found in disgust. In contrast with all of the other emotions, happiness was associated with enhanced sensations all over the body.
Emotions are felt in the gut. Feelings such sadness, anger, nervousness, fear and joy can be felt in the gut. The term “feeling sick to the stomach” describes a situation which involves mental or emotional anguish which can produce stress in the mind and the body.
Depression is associated with an inter-hemispheric imbalance; a hyperactive right-hemisphere (RH) and a relatively hypoactive left-hemisphere (LH). Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms which can explain why depression is associated with a RH dominance remain elusive.
Research has identified many root causes of extreme jealousy, including low self-esteem, high neuroticism, and feeling possessive of others, particularly romantic partners. Fear of abandonment is also a key motivator.
The hypothalamus is one of the brain regions that makes up the limbic system and is often considered the main control centre of love.
It's still true that language is left-oriented and emotions are right-oriented. It's also true that the lobes of the brain have specific jobs. But no evidence suggests that a person's left or right brain is stronger than the other. It's all about the neural connections.