MIND-BODY-MIND-BODY...we love learning about the science behind & all the different ways our emotional responses are in fact very connected to any physical reactions we may have. Especially in a society that doesn’t treat mental health with the same urgency as physical injuries, it helps to minimize the gaslighting we might do to ourselves. From @hubermanlab: “The notion that the mind and body are separate is simply false. The nervous system bridges them both and they communicate in both directions to direct our states. States include emotions but are a larger umbrella for emotional responses that include bodily responses too. States are also more objective to define. - This is a heat map from a study described in the book The Neuroscience of Emotion by Adolphs and Anderson from @caltechedu - People vary in how they express emotions verbally but the body representations are relatively stereotyped. - We are sophisticated animals but we are still animals and these maps are established by our genome, modified by experience but nonetheless relatively hardwired. Learning to recognize your bodily responses to different mental states is powerful.”