Blogpost #8: Mood Swing

Mood swing is not types of emotion this is the called where emotion or mood are rapidly change time to time. This is also symptoms of bipolar disorder. We women are prome in this mood swing.

I’ve read an article entitled How the Stars Affect Your Mood Swing it clearly state that we women when we reach the menopausal stage there are highly possibilities that mood swing attacks because hormonal changes. Astrology explains that stars are can explain why women have different mood swings. Full moon is relieving stress for us women. While new moon give good aura of calmness and serenity. Also stars give sign Capricorns are notorious in astrological circles for having an uneven temper, cancer slightest shift in the stars can cause a colossal mood swing. However, Virgo is rarely affected by mood swings; protected, as they are, from such emotional trauma by an empowering inner calm.

According to it “Astrology is said to not only predict your future, but also affect your present. Astrology can affect your personality and even your daily affairs. It works by analyzing the position of the stars, moons and planets; your mood can change depending on where they are in the sky. Read on to learn about how your mood swings may be affected by the sun, moon and stars.”

Yes they are just guide but there is no scientific explanation in it. Maybe somehow they affect our future or daily lives, but no one can say it because the future is in our hands.

I also read article Chemical reactions in the brain force teenagers' mood swings by Alok Jha, irritability, recklessness, aggression and depression is the main cause of mood swing. Teenagers are experiencing very rapid rises in the level of sex hormones. So mood swings at this early stage could be caused by hormones, although there is very little evidence to prove it.

According to Sheryl Smith, on the same article. “A physiologist at the State University of New York, offer the first physiological explanation for adolescent mood swings. Previous work has focused on analyzing behavioral changes in teenagers during adolescence. Her results are published today in Nature Neuroscience.”

Not only menopause have mood swings even teenager have it also. Mood swings vary on how deep the emotional feeling is in every individual. This is also explain that behavior changes when adolescence comes.

Blogpost #7: Pride = Hatred of other + Vanity

The absence of negative thoughts about other people is pride, the self importance which reflects a sense of highness to others, and if you hate others you can destruct them by your own comments about them.

There are times that pride is bigger than me, because I don’t say sorry even though I am the one who did wrong. I don’t admit to myself that I am the one who is wrong in short I let my pride ate me. I don’t even care to someone if pride attacks me.

I have read an article entitled The Faces of Pride by Beth Azar; she clearly states that there are two faces of pride. The first one is The Pride Expression, where lack of good measurement. In 1960’s, Paul Ekman and Carrol Izzard they indentify the six universal facial emotions namely, happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, anger and disgust. The Pride Expression, are emotion with an own facial expression are emotion have been large dismiss. The emotion like pride, shamed, guilt and embarrassment known as uncomfortable emotion, because they are social awareness where you need to interact with other people.

The second one is the A double-edged sword is a problem in yourself; on how to interact with other people. This are also have theories describing two facet of pride the first one is productive and the other one is positive, they linked it to narcissism and the difficulties associated with it. They explain that the first one it behavior of your own success and the second one is how to credit themselves.

According to Lewis in the same article, “Pride is good and hubris is sometimes necessary to get us through. Sometimes it's good to feel good about yourself. But, like anything when there's too much or too little, there's pathology on both ends”

I agree in his statement because somehow pride is good because it’s just like you have self steam, or you have something that you proud of, but in some way it’s not because others might thing that you are boastful. All feeling have good and bad it depend on us on how it deals with it.

I also read an article entitled The Problem with Prideby Dr. Adrian Rogers he clearly state that pride is an independent attitude from God. This is also the cause why some people are not praying, but this is not the real problem. The problem is thought that they don’t need it. Praylessness is the lack of devotion. If you are praylessness you are wrestling with pride. He also enumerates the attitude of being pride. These are they are irritated if they are corrected, they don’t admit mistakes, refuse to take counsel, they always compete in other people, and lastly don’t want ordinary. He also states the how pride ruins our lives, pride defiles man, we were born that has pride in us. Pride also divides society because people have different circle of friend, which is cause that’s why we don’t interact with other people.  Pride dishonor life’s, because we judge others sometimes we feel superior to other and we degrade them and because of that we destroy our soul.

According to Dr. Adrian Rogers “Very frankly, it is the sin of pride. Pride is such a deceitful sin. Many people who are infected and infested with pride have no idea that they are. As a matter of fact, the proud person is often very proud of his humility.”

I agree that pride is a honest, because you say what you want to say. This is a included in 7 capital sin. The person who proud of is a part of pride, but it is depend on how you interpret other people.

Blogpost #6: Sadness: Killing Us Softly

Sadness is an emotional feeling that when you feel down, you feel lost, disadvantage somebody who don’t need you. When you feel sadness it’s indicate by crying. Sadness is one of the six basic emotions along with happiness, anger, surpise, fear and disgust Sadness is lowering the mood.

Now I feel sadness, I’m crying while typing these words I am alone in this four dark of this room, it hurt me a lot, and my heart was aching. I am empty, I’m out of word, and words cannot express what I’m feeling right now. Crying is the best way to relief the sadness, hurt and lost that I’m feeling. I don’t know what to say I don’t find the word to fit with it. The only I know is it hurt a lot and kills me. When I was going to a sadness part of my life I cry, I make myself busy so that I forget the sadness. So I decided that this sadness I feel right now is opportunity to express and be part of my blog since my blog in about feeling and emotion.

I read an article entitled  Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative by Jonah Lehrer he state that they have an experiment they ask people to give a short speech about their dream job and some where commented on some other say positive and some say negative, but the way of comment was different because if its positive they will smile and vertical nods, and they don’t want your speech they just give a frowns and horizontal shakes. In this experiment DHEAS (dehydroepiandrosterone), deal with it an endogenous hormone that blunts the effects of stress hormones like cortisol. This DHEAS is explains the experiment impulsive mood swings and downward spirals of sadness. Finally, subjects were also asked to self-report their moods, giving the scientists a subjective and objective measurement of how they were feeling, and how the feedback to the speech had shifted their emotional state. While positive feedback cheered. And participants who received smiles and nods during their speeches reported feeling better than before. Negative feedback had the opposite effect.

According to Jonah Lehrer “People who received negative feedback created better collages, at least when compared to those who received positive feedback or no feedback at all. Furthermore, those with low baselines of DHEAS proved particularly vulnerable to the external effects of frowns, so that they proved to be the most creative of all.”

This statement clearly state that if you are hurt you created positive impact because if your in hurt there is deeper stories within compared to the people who receive a positive feedback, there is just normal way.

I also read an article Sadness is good for you, scientist say by Richard Alleyne, scientists say that when someone is in hurt, they become better person. We people have easy to become happy but it is easy also to misery after losing a job, the breakup of a relationship or death of love one.  Expert fears the increasing tendency of people taking pills and that pills affect human evolution. Many people have suffered from depression in a long time. One of the four people has been suffer from depression and five percent of the population is currently living they survive the depression. Some are taking drug so that they will surpass the depression where living through and some are choose to give up.

According to Proffessor Jerome Wakefield “When you find something this deeply in us biologically you presume it was selected because it had some advantage - otherwise we wouldn't have been burdened with it. We're fooling around with part of our biological make-up”

When you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, just trust yourself because that sadness help us to became a powerful who we are now today. Sadness is just part of our life’s they are just learning to us.

Blogpost #5: Inquisitiveness is Curiosity

Curiosity is the feeling we get when we want to know more details about certain stuff. But curiosity leads us to great things. Mankind would not have achieved the things we have right now if no one was curious about this and that. Electricity wouldn't have been discovered if Benjamin Franklin wasn't curious

I have read an article entitled The Itch of Curiosity by Jonah Lehrer. Curiosity is one of the important mental habits because great things start when people are curious. Most successful people are curious giving them the motivation to find out something useful for man. For example if a person who is curious about how he/she will do everything to quench his/her curiosity. In this article also states that they have an experiment about the fMRI are an interesting it’s a neutral process of creativity. The first thing that they found is that curiosity obeys an inverted U-shaped. This experiment support the information gap theory of curiosity, by George Loewenstein of Caregie-Mellon, according to Loewenstein, curiosity is just a simple matter. When we feel a gap with the matter of we know and we want to know. In this gap, emotional enters; she said that it feels like a mental itch. She compares it to a mosquito where bite on the brain, its itch that that why we seek out knowledge and that itch he talk about is the curiosity.

According to Jonah Lehrer, in the same article "Our curiosity about the world remains mostly a mystery (According to one review of the literature, the amount of research on curiosity peaked in the late 1940s.) Einstein would not be pleased: “I have no special talents,” he once declared. “I am only passionately curious.”

This quote discuss about curiosity. I agree that curiosity is important in the development of our world. Curiosity is the central motivation. In my own perspective we people have own curiosity that’s why we experiment and seek for our own answers.

I also read an article entitled Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything  by Philip Ball he used the term haute vulgarization as an perfect example it is a  French word which means high class popularization. He break down the different ideas, until he reach the 17^th century with Charles Darwin wad to famous the Origin of Species. He says that curiosity was seen as risky and fated as such, and when pretty well anything of human concern was fit to study.  Even Karl Marx as shocked by Charles Darwin’s materialist view of nature as isolated survivalism in “On the Origin of Species”. Beneath Darwin’s isolated vision, however, was a childlike sense of wonder at the mysteries of the natural world and a delight in extracting order out of madness.

According to Philip Ball on the same article “curiosity appears to be under threat from the internet and “the empty immediacy of the virtual now”, writes Ball. With such a profusion of “choice” available to us on screen, the impulse to explore experimentally is in danger of being diminished. Still, the desire to know and learn will surely remain a part of what it means to be human.”

In my own perspective it true because nowadays, almost all of the thing that we want to know is searchable through the internet. But we should not take advantage the internet because it our own way to choice to search it, because not all in the internet was helpful and useful. We should responsible on what we search about because not all curiosity is good, it our own choice to make our own decision in every curiosity.

Blogpost #4: Fear : Unpleasant Emotion

Fear is an unpleasant emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing. Fear is when we are afraid of encountering a person or any living object or experience any events.

Fear also called phobia, phobia is when you are fear to someone. I had a research about fear.

I read an article about fear named How Fear Works by Julia Layton it says here that fear is a chain reaction from a stressful stimulus like scary stuffs and then release toxins which causes fast heartbeat, being nervous, and shaking or freezing. In this article fear starts in the brain it starts when a stressful stimulus happens or occurs to the person and  then the brain releases toxins which have different effects it's like when your knees are shaking, the feeling that you want to run away, and when you feel cold even though it's really hot

Our brain is a really the most complex part of our body. More than 100 billion nerve cells compose a network of communications. There are different kinds of responses that our brain produces first is the one which we activate manually and it is when we are under control and we know what we are doing while the other is autonomic response which means it's automatic our reaction depends mostly on the stimulus fear is an autonomic response which means we have no control over it. Fear essentially makes the body weak when scary encounters happen.

According to Julia Layton in the same article “The fear response is almost entirely autonomic: We don't consciously trigger it or even know what's going on until it has run its course.”

We don’t know when we are scared until it comes out, this is one of the automatic emotions in ourselves, and it should be not to trigger this fear because how can you deal with it if you are fear to face it.

In this next article I've read entitled How the Science of Fear makes Soldiers Stronger by Kathryn Wallace. It tells us how soldiers use fear to their advantage and shows that fear can be conquered and tamed.

military in science

The USS Trayer is a ship which is use for training soldiers not only to be physically ready but also mentally. The USS Trayer is used to simulate real raids to exercise the recruits to be ready for those kinds of attack. This is also used to prevent PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. They are avoiding young recruits to have PTSD because almost all of the war veterans have nightmares, constellation of flashbacks and severe anxiety.

According to Kathryn Wallace in the same article “It all seems so real, as if it were an actual maritime siege. But it’s not. Except for the enemy, that is. The enemy—fear—is real.”

The fear we feel is real, we see something that we fear of we feel it when we are shaking. They really put in a lot of effort to make it look real and try as best as they can to make them feel what it may be during the real battle they are treating in term of training.

To sum it all fear is a emotion we feel when we are afraid to someone. Fear is just in our mind.

Blogpost #3: Admiration is a Feeling

“Admiration” we people have different meaning of admiration, some say it’s like crush, some say its part of love and some say it’s a feeling of pleasure. I’ve had my own meaning of admiration, it is part of our feeling or emotions, and we feel toward non moral excellence, it included respect and approval of others.

Admiration is the feeling we get when we see someone do good things like when we see an old person who can't climb up the jeep because he/she is too old we admire the person who helps the old person we don't feel bad even if we didn't help when we had the chance because someone did it for us admiration is like an excuse for us to not to have our own initiative in doing good deeds.

I read an article entitled Admiration by Sherry L. Beaumont she said there that admiration is an emotional response included pleasure, wonder and reverence. Admiration is a feeling of delighted approval and liking. There are positive and negative emotions, positive emotions believed to be unique, unlike negative emotions they focused on their specific goals and personal needs. On the other hand Haidt stated that moral emotions focused on others rather than their self-interests, they call it prosaically or goal directed behaviours that have potential benefits to others.

According to Barbara Fredrickson, in the same article, “positive emotions are believed to be unique in that, unlike negative emotions which direct one's responses toward narrow and specific goals, they offer opportunities for broadening one's thought-action repertoire in a way that promotes positive well-being by increasing one's personal resources.”

In this statement Frendrickson clearly say that if you have positive emotions some believe that it is unique and true to admire someone but if it’s negative no one likes it. I believe in it because if you are in the good mood you have positive response and others will believed in you but if you are not no one will believe you.

I also read an article entitled This column will change your life: Admiration, an honourable emotion by Oliver Burkeman it clearly state that admiration is a moral emotion related to what he calls elevation it is the category n Psychology that resist the usual effort to classify all emotions as somehow selfish. Admiration is the feeling we get when others do good For Jonathan this is unusual. It delivers happiness by shifting our focus away from our own. Comparing your life to the famous, who only act what they what to show it to the public is like comparing your inside to other’s outside, but comparison is like admiration. Relationship with the celebrities sometimes can boost our self-esteem, because we feel we are closer to them if we portrait them it is called Parasocial. Wetherell suggest that we should have true admiration an emotion so intense that you can feel it thru out your body that will force you to do great deeds

According to Oliver Burke man “This column has inveighed before against comparing your life with the famous, who provide only edited versions of themselves – a classic case of "comparing your insides with other people's outsides"

Yes, we truly admire celebrities but, we should not compare ourselves to other because we've have different personalities, and aspects in life. As a public figure celebrity provides only edit version of themselves in public, they have so called off scene cam attitude. Sometimes some public figure shows them as a good figure so that many people can admire them. But we, ordinary people admire someone by physical appearance not what’s inside. In my own aspects admiration, we should not take the physical appearance only we should know what we feel towards to the other people.

To sum it all admiration is one of the feeling we encounter in our daily lives liking, it is also have crush on, it is more than friend less than lovers.  We also admire someone we see, by physically we also have emotionally admire it inloves feelings and emotion.

Blogpost #2: Science Behind Love and Emotions

"Love" different people have different meanings for love some say Love hurts, some say love is sweet, and some say this is the most powerful feeling in the world. I've had my fair share of experience when talking about love had my ups and downs but all I can say is in Love nothing is impossible, because love can make you better or make you worse. 

I had a research about science behind love and emotion, some of us believes that science explain everything. So I decided to research how science explain love and feelings.

According to The Science of Love by Helen Fisher of from University in the States Psychologists says that there are 90 second and 4 minutes to know that you deeply like someone. This article says that 55% on how a person falls in love is through body language, 38% from the tone and speed of the voice and 7% through what they say. I think that falling in love depends on what others would say words are very powerful and so is love. We don't need explanations and measurements in love because everything can happen nothing is impossible with love. This article also explains how a human falls in love what factors are responsible for having or feeling love. They say that there are three stages in love lust, attraction and attachment. This is what they say but from my own perspective I believe that love just happens it does not have any stages or steps needed it depends on the person on how or why he/she loves a person there is no scientific explanation for it.

According to Helen Fisher York “Psychologist, Professor Arthur Arun, has been studying why people fall in love. He asked his subjects to carry out the above 3 steps and found that many of his couples felt deeply attracted after the 34 minute experiment. Two of his subjects later got married.”

In this statement Helen Fisher says that Professor Arthur Arun did an experiment about people how do they fall in love.  If two out of three of his subjects fell in love with each other his theory must be true but I don't think falling in live has specific conditions I think it depends upon the person if he or she will fall in love.

I also read about perspective of love and science the article entitled Your Brain in Love  by Mark Fischetti, clearly states that doctors have discovered that a person who feels love any kind of love produces certain chemicals. They have compared the MRI studies of those who are experiencing any kind of love and to those who don't. They may cure a person who is severely depressed by being heartbroken by changing the chemicals.

According to Mark Fischetti “Neuro ­transmitters and other chemicals in the brain and blood that prompt greater euphoric sensations such as attraction and pleasure.”

In my own understanding neurotransmitters give the sensations or feelings we get when things happen such as sadness happiness and different kinds of emotions I agree to that because the brain first before the heart.  

Blogpost #1: Feeling and Emotions

Good day I’m Renelyn Palafox taking up Multimedia Arts in Asia Pacific College. This is my first time to write a blog and decided to search about Feeling and Emotions. As an artist we express our feeling and emotion on our art work. Each art works have meaning, you cannot see the true essence of a work until you know the true emotion within. 

             Emotions play important role in our daily lives. We make our decision based on our feeling and emotion, when we are happy our decision has positive feedback, but when were sad our decision make worse because our mind were not working properly.

color of the surrounding depend of your emotion

After searching on the internet I found an article entitled “Ariana, Goddess of Colours and Emotions” by storycat12 , Ariana is the Goddess of Colors and Emotions. Aphrodite gave Ariana her name which means "Holy" she gave that name to her because she felt that Ariana was holy and a gift from the fates. In the beginning, Ariana was very strange at that time but as she grew older she revealed her true powers. The colors of the surrounding depend on Ariana’s feelings; if Ariana is mourning the bright color turns dark. In my own perspective if the feelings of Ariana can see in the colors of surrounding, then we people can see the true feeling or emotions in our eyes because eyes are the windows in to our souls.

According to storycat12 “A man grieving then loss of his wife. She kneeled before him and mourned with him. Miles away, the happy green turned to a sharp forest green. The bright yellow turned black, and every other happy color turned dark, as Ariana mourned.”

In this statement says that if Ariana is happy the color of the surrounding turns bright, and if she’s mourning it turns dark. In short the color of the surrounding depends on the feeling of Ariana.

           I also read an article entitled "Exoression of Emotions" by Kendra Cherry. She states there that you need energy to understand things better. She also state that there are different ways of emotions, the verbal and non-verbal. Verbal is how you express what you feel through speaking while non-verbal are emotions you kept inside like love, anger and happiness but you express it through facial expression.  She also states that there are six Happiness, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Fear.

According to Kendra Cherry “In his 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, famed naturalist Charles Darwin argued that human expressions of emotion were both innate and universal across cultures. Researcher and emotion expert Paul Eckman has found that, for the most part, the facial expressions used to convey the basic emotions tend to be the same across cultures.”  

Charles Darwin who is a naturalist who says that emotions or facial expressions are the same even in different cultures and Paul Eckman supported and proved this. In my perspective I don't think that if we have different cultures we would have different facial expressions we are all people we have feelings and emotions we only differ in our ways or our culture.

To sum it all, we cannot hide what we feel especially if we are hurt so much. Feelings are expressed physically like facial expression, faster heartbeat, and behaviors such as aggression, crying, or covering the face with hands. We act out what we feel even if we hide it from others. But not all feelings are physical there are also feelings that is kept inside like anger.