Feelings and physical reactions

 Feelings and physical reactions

To a large extent, people are what they feel. Important feelings include happiness, interest, surprise, fear, sadness, anger and disgust or con tempt. Dictionary definitions of feelings tend to use words like essential "physical sensation', 'emotions' and 'awareness'. All three of these skills are words illustrate a dimension of feelings. Feelings as physical sensations with on or as physical reactions represent people's underlying animal nature, People are animals first, persons second. As such they need to learn to value and live with their underlying animal nature. The word emotions clearly, implies movement. Feelings are processes. People are subject to a conings, pltinuous flow of biological experiencing. Awareness implies that people can be conscious of their feelings. However, at varying levels and in different ways, they may also be out of touch with them.

Physical reactions both represent and accompany feelings and, in a sense, are indistinguishable. For example, bodily changes associated with anxiety can include galvanic skin response - detectable electrical changes taking place in the skin, raised blood pressure, a pounding heart and a rapid pulse, shallow and rapid breathing, muscular tension, drying of the mouth, stomach problems such as ulcers, speech difficulties such as stammering, sleep difficulties, and sexual problems such as complete or partial loss of desire. Other physical reactions include a slowing down of body movements when depressed and dilated eye pupils in moments of anger or sexual attraction. Sometimes people react to their physical reactions. For example, in anxiety and panic attacks, they may first feel tense and anxious and then become even more tense and anxious because of this initial feeling.