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“In fact, there is no universal physical signature for any emotion that's ever been studied.”

“When it comes to emotion, as with almost everything in, in biology variation is the norm. There isn't one anger. You have a whole population of angers that you can feel, and your brain doesn't conjure them randomly. It conjures them according to your brain's b…”

“So that illusion doesn't happen to, for some people in the world because they didn't, they weren't exposed to buildings and boxes and corners and things when their brain was finished wiring itself for the To be able to see.”

“It translates into depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes. They're all metabolic illnesses that come from a debt, running a deficit in your body budget.”

“There's actually no fundamental difference biologically between a mental illness and a physical illness.”

“Neurodegeneration that happens in Alzheimer's disease or even normal aging, Is really about trimming your metabolic budget.”

“It doesn't matter whether you're thinking or feeling or seeing or hearing or whatever. It's all the same mechanisms. Your brain is taking in sense data from the body and from the world, and it's using past experiences to make sense of what that means.”

“You don't have an emotional brain. You don't have a rational brain. There's no part of your brain that's devoted to emotion that isn't used when also in moments when you are being rational.”

“If you get a group of scientists who all have different backgrounds and different assumptions, and they come together in consensus, you can be much more sure that what you're observing is very likely to be the case in this circumstance. Right. However, you hav…”

“The brain, your brain is automatically making inferences about the internal thoughts and feelings of people based on their actions, but we are blinded To the fact that they're inferences, that they're guesses. We think we're reading people when, in fact, reall…”

“There's research which shows really clearly that in, in Western cultural contexts like ours, knowing a lot of emotion concepts and a lot of emotion words and being able to Use those to create very nuanced, precise, emotional events actually is really helpful. …”

“Why did a brain evolve? It didn't evolve for you to think or feel or see. It evolved to regulate your body.”

“If you love something, you're reading something, or you're hearing something, and, you know, on the news, maybe, or you're watching a YouTube thing, or whatever, and you love it, That, whatever was just said, validates some deeply held belief that you have. An…”

“People call that emotional contagion, but it's actually not emotional. What's happening really is that human nervous systems regulate each other. We're social animals.”

“So a lot of times when people say, don't be sad, don't be angry, really what they're saying is, I don't want to deal with you being angry or sad, and I don't want to feel that way, so I want you to calm down.”

“People say, oh, that's the stress hormone. No, it's not. It's a hormone that ha it's a hormone that is secreted in what we call stress, but basically glu, what cortisol does is it gets glucose into your blood really fast so that cells can use it really fast.”

“Breathing is really the only way that we know of Biologically speaking, that it's the only way that you can kind of deliberately get a handle on your nervous system.”

“If we trust each other in the moment, our biological signals will start to synchronize. Our heart rates will synchronize. Our breathing will synchronize.”