“I met a guy last night at a party. I didn’t let anything happen between us, even though I did like him. I just don’t want to be hurt,” a young woman said on her first appointment with me.
“You probably associate love with disappointment. When you think about love, you remember pain, sadness, anger, rage even – the baggage from a past relationship in which you were hurt.”
As we look at the world around us, we build models. The more information we get, the more opportunities we have to filter out our own. What we usually do in the end is to tell ourselves a story about what the outer world actually is. Every piece of information we take from our surroundings and process, invariably mirrors the events we have experienced and our emotional responses. Continue reading “Physiology of Emotion – How to Move On?”
