Then, in a process that Barrett dubs “body budgeting,” your brain makes predictions about what those internal sensations mean in terms of your body’s energy needs, and it regulates the body accordingly-by doing things such as speeding up your heart, slowing down breathing, releasing more cortisol, or metabolizing more glucose. In interoception, your brain gets sensory input from inside your body, including information about your heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, temperature, hormones, metabolism, and so on. They’re part of an internal process called interoception. These feelings are essentially summaries of your body’s inner state (they’re also called affect). These basic feelings are your body's internal sensations, whereas emotions are the concepts that your brain assigns to the feelings to give them meaning.Įven though emotions are not the same across cultures, Barrett says that basic internal feelings on a spectrum from pleasure and displeasure and calmness to agitation are universal. Reality: Simple feelings of pleasure and displeasure or calmness and agitation are not the same as complex emotional experiences such as joy and sadness.
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