Emotions and the Brain

The Sentis Brain Animation Series takes you on a tour of the brain through a series of short and sharp animations.

The fifth in the series explains what is happening in our brains as we experience emotions -- both the helpful and unhelpful ones! This empowering animation demonstrates that while sometimes our emotions can 'hijack' our rational thinking, we also have the power to manage our emotions with conscious thought.

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[FearlessMindGH]

Balancing our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors really is the key to achieving goals and overall health

[queensNY]

These SentisDigital videos have changed my life. I am really in love with the animation series. They are so short, but they are filled with solid information. I would definitely love to see some more. Thank you so much.

[CaseyVan]

This is a big problem. Our emotions can take over our thinking completely to the point where we are insane if we don't watch out. Pride is the worst enemy to rationality. I wish more people knew this.

[reshanweerasooriya]

Wow. Really enjoyed this perspective, particularly the rooting in threat or reward. Thank you for sharing.

[MakeBPDStigmaFree]

Perfect for people with Borderline Personality Disorder or those who wish to understand it better.  Am definitely sharing this!

[socint]

This is one of the better presentations describing emotion in terms of perceptions related to threat or "reward" reach the brain via the amygdala and set in motion chemical changes enabling us to cope or re-act in ways that best serve our well-being. However there are various perceptions of situations and objects, indicating promise which are neither "rewarding" or "good", as others suggest,
i.e the term "promise" is more appropriate encompassing all attractive stimuli initiating emotion..

[socint]

While there are some impulsive acts which lie outwith the process of emotion as described the assertion that there is no cognitive activity on arousal of emotion is untrue. Emotion is initiated on a judgement that threat or promise exists so that, , brief though it may be, the judgement can not be other than a cognitive function. Following the initial judgement but prior to re-action (if any) we also often have time to call on reason and memories to influence how we may best respond.

[kinarast]

I sometimes can't control my fear over things. O try to but the fear is still there.
I think, children feel a lot more than think and the thinking part of the brain develop as we age

[wvmsxvq]

THIS Is How You Balance Your Emotions
We can balance our emotions with the help of the environment.
What I mean by “environment” is our society and its influences, that we can surround ourselves with such influences that will guide us on how to direct the emotions that awaken in us.
For instance, we know the example of peer pressure, when our friends tell us to do or not to do something, and their influence makes us follow their recommendations. Using this force of our surrounding environment, we can choose our environment—the kinds of people, media and values we surround ourselves with—and accordingly change our attitude toward certain emotions.
We can then build our intellect with our social influences. Our desires constantly grow, and we correspondingly need to build a greater and greater intellect with which we can deal with our growing desires.
Adjusting our environmental influences in order to build the intellect so that we can best deal with our growing desires is the essence of education. It is what we need to teach the younger generation, that we can balance our emotions with our intellects, and by doing so, come to see our perfect state in life.
We should thus try to find an environment that would be able to supplement our constantly-surfacing emotions in a certain direction. Our environment should act as a damper, helping us mediate our inner excitements and eruptions, bringing them to a state where we would be able to realize them—but to realize them in ways that benefit both ourselves and others.
In other words, we need to examine ourselves in relation to our environment, whether the environment accepts what we want to do. If we find that our desires match those of the environment, then we can continue realizing our desires. We can then determine that we can carry out what we want to do, that it will benefit both us and those around us, and that everything will turn out just fine if we go ahead and realize our desires.
This is how we can balance our emotions—by learning how to balance between our intellect and our emotions via our surrounding environment.

[FutureAIDev]

So to summarize, one can use conscious thought to modulate and directly control emotion?

[tranquilclaws]

emotion --> E-Motion --> Energy for Motion

[Regreal]

wow this was a really helpful video. thx

[kimannrojas]

Is this relatable to Paul Churchland's (philosopher) eliminative materialism?

[MishelFayad]

Very simple and direct animation! Thank you!

[MagicalToothpaste]

The other day I acted on emotion rather than logic and I was shocked with myself; thank you for explaining why!

[davidkatuin]

Bacic, not bad except trying to change your emotions through thought. You can try to provoke a change but that depends on value of the previous input .

[jiovannisookhai]

Some to know, the emotional part comes from are limbic system, the amygdala.

[nadiaali]

little confused about how you said the outer part can be unhelpful but regulating thoughts and behaviours can be thanks for the video!

[mr.hollywood]

i will recommend international internet human protection program, it can save many lives . also physical from back to back operations .

[tonymaw]

Does your body start to shut down if you (example) hate your self and think about suicide?