The article discusses the challenges faced by high-functioning individuals who struggle with anxiety and a sense of being overwhelmed, despite practicing mindfulness techniques. It emphasizes a paradigm shift in understanding emotions—not as problems to be managed but as vital signals and a type of intelligence. Scientific insights reveal that emotional responses occur before cognitive processes, suggesting that emotions serve as crucial markers for meaningful experiences. The author encourages readers to reconceptualize their relationship with emotions, seeing them as important guides rather than mere discomforts to be eliminated.
Rather than viewing emotions as the result of distorted thinking or random waves of discomfort that pass through your body, could you be open to the idea of emotion as a sense, primal yet profound?
The body feels first. Emotional processing occurs at higher speeds than cognitive processing, meaning emotion often arises before we've had a chance to think.
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