While dating the first kiss is held as a romantic moment. Before the first kiss and before intimacy there are some issues to discuss. If there isn’t a comfort level to discuss these things beforehand then it’s most likely too early to proceed. Here is one way to begin the conversation.

According to new research, kissing can lead to various conditions. Some of these conditions are quite serious. A 10-second kiss can carry up to 80 million gems. The exchanging of saliva usually causes these diseases.

The Fine Art Of The Smooch!

When it comes to kissing, choose carefully, because it turns out you can catch more than just feelings! Whilst kissing provides us with many health benefits, it can also transmit germs like bacteria and viruses which can lead to disease. Without trying to ruin the mood, here is a guide to all the germs which can potentially be transmitted by kissing! Before the first kiss, have a little talk.

Conditions Spread From Kissing

1.  Herpes Virus Family Of Infections

• Epstein-Barr Virus | Mononucleosis | Mono | Known As ‘Kissing Disease’
  Herpes Simplex Virus | Type 1 – Oral |  Type 2 – Genital
  Cytomegalovirus | Cold Sores
  Varicella-zoster virus(causes chickenpox)

2.  Warts (Human Papillomavirus, HPV)

3.  Respiratory Viruses | Strep Throat | Influenza

4.  Tooth Decay & Gum Disease | Periodontitis 

• Flora of bacteria, viruses, and mucus that live in the mouth! Forming plaque, which can cause cavities or gum disease (gingivitis) when it builds up under your gum line.

5.  Viral | Bacterial | Meningitis

6.  Syphilis | Transmitted | Kissing | Sex

7.  Sexually Transmitted Disease | HIV | Chlamydia | Gonorrhoea

8.  Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

9.  Lyme Disease | Salvia | Ejaculate

10.  Hepatitis B or C | Sexual Contact | Intercourse

11.  Let’s Talk About Sugar

Most types of sugar wreak havoc on our body’s systems, especially our microbiome. Our microbiome is the living collection of all the bacteria that reside in and on our body, and it is so important to our overall health that scientists have dubbed it another organ.

The beneficial bacteria, the probiotics in our gut where most of our microbes live, are responsible for a variety of health-promoting functions, like regulating our immune system, balancing our blood sugar, helping us absorb nutrients, and even calming our emotions.

One of the biggest microbiome disrupters is a diet full of sugary, processed foods. The probiotics in our gut feed on prebiotics, which are plant-based fibers from whole foods like apples, onions, garlic. Can you guess what the bad guy bacteria like to eat? You guessed it—sugar! When we eat a high-sugar diet, the undesirable bacteria thrive and start to grow out of control, while our beneficial bacteria dwindle in number.

Keeping your sugar intake to a minimum and avoiding other common microbiome depleters, are the steps right now to help keep your microbiome intact for the true sweetness of a kiss.

11. The Drugged Kiss

Pharmaceutical drugs and recreational drugs are passed on via the saliva and bodily fluids as well.

Relationship Agenda

Check in to see if you are on the same page. Are you both looking for a monogamous partner or will you be in a relationship with unknown partners? Some people are just looking for a sexual exchange. What is the agenda of each one of you?

Keep The Conversation Open |Ongoing

Sex is an opening conversation, there’s much more to talk about. This is mostly about the first kiss. In today’s world a conversation that needs to take place. This is a start. Next is the conversation about sex!

Preventing The Transmission of Kissing-Conditions!

Avoid kissing someone when either one of you is sick, run down or not feeling well.

Avoid kissing someone when they have a cold sore, wart or ulcer in or around their mouth.

Brush and floss your teeth well! Get semi-annual or annual cleanings to remove plaque build up.

Further Relationship Reading

Talk Sex Before Having Sex

The Real Difference Between Chemistry And Love

Expectation Station

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Our Free Flowing Anger

Befriending Our Anger

Our Instinctive Response

Anger is an instinctive response to boundaries being crossed. To notice our anger we need to name it as it arrives.

• When we repress anger we abandon ourself, having no apathy for ourself or others, we can easily fall into depression.
• Expressing our anger creates harsh boundaries, isolation and cycling rages that accelerates most issues.
• Repressing and expressing our emotions accelerates the outer drama and lead us away from ourself and others.

Every Present Anger

Anger is often present when there is something for us to protect, as a response to a perceived threat to oneself or to another. We usually need to restore our boundaries to feel safe. Anger can also be a response to frustration. Anger can be a secondary emotion to fear as well.

Being a hardwired basic emotions anger is innate, universal, automatic, and fast. Triggering our unthinking, instinctive responses, our first response to a situation. Each emotion corresponds to a distinct neurological circuit.

Anger As A Guide

When our hardwired anger is present we can use it for guidance.

When we pause for a moment to check in;

1. Sensing~Noticing in your body that you are having an emotion/feeling.
2. Naming~Choosing an accurate name for the emotion/feeling.
3. Evaluating~Checking in about how you feel about having the emotion/feeling.
4. Acting~Deciding how to cope, use or deal with the emotion/feeling.

When we notice it, name it, evaluate it and deal with our inner world of emotions, without reacting outwardly in anger we begin to use our inner wisdom.

Sometimes primary emotions disappear as fast as they appear. They’re replaced by secondary emotions, complicating the situation often making it difficult to understand what is really going on.

Our basic fear response is so primitive and so automatic it’s unconscious and uncontrollable, more like a reaction rather than a deliberate action.

Our emotions become a neurology chemical bath, creating a complex chain of chemistry to the brain and throughout the body. As emotions join in the fray we ride the inner wave of chemistry scanning for clarity, rather than reacting unconsciously to the anger. It really is an inside job.

Free Flowing Anger

When anger flows freely, without being repressed or expressed; it helps maintain our boundaries, our inner convictions, and our healthy detachment. Free flowing anger allow you to laugh compassionately at yourself. It provides a guide to set your boundaries mercifully. Both actions arise from an inner strength and honorable self-definition anger imparts.

As a practice rather than exploding or repressing, we can speak our truth by resetting our boundaries in healthy ways, which will protect us and our relationships.

Robert Plutchik’s~8 Basic Emotions

Anger~Fear
Joy~Sadness
Surprise~Anticipation
Trust~Distrust

How To Switch Off An Angry Person 

It’s one thing to understand your own emotional chemistry. How do you switch off an angry person?  Nadia Persun, PhD offers some suggestions.

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Find a quiet place to sit with your spine straight or lay down. Light a candle and enjoy the heart chakra meditation music below.

While meditating on these words breathe deeply and smoothly.

Divine Light That Illuminates Our Hearts

I am filled with gratitude for the beating of my heart.

May my heart know joy, awe and be filled with peace.

May my heart be connected to your grace as

all my fear fades away,

as my worries and anxiety are

replaced with love and wisdom.

My heart wounds provide a place

where the Light enters.

I feed my heart with sun rays.

I feed my stomach with rainbow foods.

I feed my mind with the awe of my heart beating.

I REST. Here I REST Deeply.

Grateful in the rhythm of my heart…beating.

On an exhale sound

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa (full voice)

Haaaaaaaaaa (soft voice)

Haaaaaaaaaaaa (without sound)

Support the health of your heart by avoiding dairy, wheat, caffeine and alcohol. Enjoy fresh garden vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, lean meats and fish. REST DEEPLY.

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Awakening Heart Wisdom

What is smarter than your brain? Science is pointing to the heart. The mystical wisdom of the heart is finding solid ground in our scientific understanding.

The Heart’s Powerful Electromagnetic Field

• The heart forms in the fetus first before the brain.
• The source of the heartbeat is in the heart, not the brain.
• During a heart transplant, the heart cannot reconnected to the brain. The heart beats on its own.
• The electromagnetic field of the heart can be measured three to four feet from the body. This electrical impulse of the heart is forty to sixty times stronger than the brain and many times stronger than any other electrical impulse in the body.
• The hearts vascular system is sixty thousand miles long, long enough to wrap around the earth twice.

The Heart Of Emotions

Heart wisdom allows us to awaken to the actual experience of our existence, without getting caught in it. When we listen to the wisdom of the heart, we dissolve separation, and move into the compassionate state of loving awareness. In that awareness we are true to our deepest wisdom.

The “heart brain” is in continuous dialogue. The heart sends signals to the brain that can influence our perception, our emotional processing and our higher cognitive functioning.

As we experience different emotions our heart’s field changes, affecting our cells. Energetic interactions involving the heart may underlie intuition and important aspects of human consciousness according to growing evidence gathered by HeartMath science.

By fostering positive emotions, individuals can effectively initiate a re-patterning process, whereby habitual emotional patterns underlying stress are replaced with new, healthier patterns that establish increased emotional stability, mental acuity, and physiological efficiency as a new familiar baseline or norm.

Alchemy Of Heart Wisdom

The alchemy of heart wisdom transforms emotional turmoil into peace through emotional integration. Emotional upsets that occur throughout our everyday experiences are not within the actions of others, or the outer circumstances that trigger them. We are energetically shaped by our initial interactions. Through entering the alchemy of heart wisdom in self-reflection we can begin to process feelings that were first triggered by hot or cold emotions.

“We can awaken to the awareness that the only loving approach available to us for achieving perceptual course-correction, one which simultaneously empowers absolute personal responsibility,
whenever emotionally triggered, we are empowered to ‘re-parent ourselves’, and so also to systematically integrate our childhood imprinting.” Michael Brown

Emotional skills develop over time. By awakened awareness positive emotions replace negative emotions and life changes in fundamental ways. Working with such deep wisdom shifts the cells in the body to be in resonance with new happier interactions.

Hearing Heart Wisdom

By listening to the wisdom of our heart we can trust in our own knowing and follow the wisdom that leads to peace. It requires a slowing down. Taking time to reflect and finding clarity. Waiting for the right time and place to voice words that embody wisdom rather than a knee jerk reaction. Time is our friend, taking it all a little slower…checking out what we heard with what was said. Feeling it in our body and shifting it before we interact.

For today speak from your heart, from the deepest wisdom in your body rather than the loop of the mind. Drop down and find the simplest of truths within yourself.

Share Your Experiences

Have you experienced a time when you were clearly relating from your heart? A time when you could have reacted to your hot emotions but instead you sat with it and waited for your heart’s wisdom to shine through? Share you experience below, it may help another on the heart path.

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Social anxiety is a specific form of anxiety. It is an emotion characterised by a discomfort or a fear when a person is in a social interaction that involves a concern of being judged or evaluated by others. Typically characterised by an intense fear of what others are thinking about them (specifically fear of embarrassment or humiliation, criticism, or rejection), which results in the individual feeling insecure and not good enough for other people, and/or the assumption that peers will automatically reject them.

Developmental social anxiety occurs early in childhood as a normal part of the development of social functioning and is a stage that most children grow out of, but it may persist or resurface and grow into chronic social anxiety during their teenage years or possibly in adulthood. People vary in how often they experience social anxiety, and in which kinds of situations they experience it.

Chronic social anxiety that causes considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life is an anxiety disorder called social anxiety disorder (SAD). It is the most common anxiety disorder and one of the most common psychiatric disorders. Wikipedia

Social anxiety is an avoidance of interacting with work, social and family activities. This fear avoidance creates intense anxiety and distress. Small groups, authority figures, being observed, being the center of attention, are all a part of the daily activities to be avoided.

Social anxiety is a pattern of thinking that involves; predicting the future, mind reading, over generalizing, taking things personal and focusing on the negatives. The bodily symptoms can include; sweating, flushing, heart palpitations and elevated blood pressure.

Social Anxiety Companions~Alcohol, Sugar, Nicotine 

Many people with social anxiety will use alcohol for liquid courage in social situations. Alcohol affects the brain’s serotonin levels that regulate mood. Alcohol is full of sugar which leads to feelings of nervousness, confusion, restlessness and sometimes dizziness.

While the main strategy is avoidance of social situation, people who suffer from social anxiety, develop social and emotional skill deficits as a results of the avoidance of interacting. While their peers are learning these skills by interacting. As time goes on, the anxiety and distress of avoiding interactions is loneliness and often depression.

Smokers often use the habit to try to relieve tension and anxiety. However, research has shown that smoking cigarettes may be linked to an increased risk of anxiety disorders. The effect of cigarette smoking on your anxiety may be related to the indirect effects of the habit of breathing, as well as the direct effects of nicotine on your body. Not only will quitting smoking be better for your social anxiety, it will also be better for your overall health.

Effective Therapy For Social Anxiety

Research indicates that the most effective therapy for social anxiety disorder is called cognitive-behavioral therapy. New rational ways to deal with and eradicate the anxiety can be learned. By learning to work with the “behavior” rather than being controlled of the anxieties. Anti depression medication can also be of assistance.

Resources To Overcome Social Anxiety

1. Video by the University Of California Television. Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant Martin L. Rossman, MD, discusses how to use the power of the healing mind to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve pain, change lifestyle habits, and live with more wellness. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public.
2. Documentary on Social Anxiety Disorder.
3. The Social Anxiety Institute offers an online therapy course.
4. Text for Social Anxiety.
5. Books available

Change your thinking, change your life!

Watch This Video By~Bestselling author, Noah Elkrief, explaining why you have social anxiety and how to completely lose your social anxiety.

More Than Butterflies: Overcoming Social Anxiety ~The Signs, Symptoms, and Learning how to Cope. By Barbara Markway, Ph.D., a psychologist with over 25 years of experience and the author of four self-help books. Barbara has also been featured in the award-winning PBS documentary Afraid of People. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Prevention, Essence, American Health, Real Simple, Web MD, Psychology Today, and her own website The Self-Compassion Project.

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How To Be Happy

Positive psychology and the science of happiness can now point you in the direction of happiness. A fulfilling and flourishing life is now closer at hand for each of us and the larger community.

Harvard’s Positive Psychology 1504

A ‘How To Be Happy’ course taught by professor Tal Ben-Shahar (PhD), entered the history books as the most popular course in the history of Harvard University. This course consists of 22-75 minutes lectures. Along with guest lecture on humor, given by Shawn Achor, who also studied and taught at Harvard. The course teaches the psychological aspects of life fulfillment and flourishing, by teaching about empathy, friendship, love, achievement, creativity, spirituality, happiness, and humor.

Berkeley University Of California GG101x

The Science Of Happiness course taught by Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Thomas is the first MOOC to teach positive psychology. Learn science-based principles and practices for a happy, meaningful life.”A free eight-week Science of Happiness course that will offer practical, research-backed tips on living a happy and meaningful life.” – The Huffington Post

Greater Good In Action

Berkeley University of California created The Greater Good Science Center along with The Greater Good In Action. Providing resources to apply science based practices for a meaningful life. The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

Engaged In Happiness

As a student at Berkeley University Of California, The Science Of Happiness course is exciting and fun to be engaged in. Entering into this new field is rich and I’m sure will be rewarding in ways I can’t even image. I encourage you to take part in any way you are drawn to. Here’s to your happiness!

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Expectation Station~Departures To Disappointment

Waiting At The Expectation Station

Somewhere deep inside we are all waiting for our lives to improve and when it doesn’t go as planned…in an instant, disappointment arrives. The feelings of sadness or displeasure caused by a unmeant hope or expectation can immediately be felt in the body as it contracts against what it doesn’t want.

As disappointment moves through the body; sadness, regret, sorrow, disenchantment and dissatisfaction settle in and cause pain the body. The let down of the disappointment can lead to despondency and depression.

When we find ourself in a situation where what we hoped for is not there, an array of emotions and reactions can come hurdling forth. Resulting in an emotional shut down or rage or being passively aggressive by trying to punish the other by withholding love.

Next Stop~Expectations

Such an innocent sounding word, expectation actually plays havoc with our lives. Expectations takes us out of the present moment so effectively that you lose your place in the greater flow of the cosmos. Whether an expectation is optimistic or pessimistic, it narrows the field of vision and closes down the limitless potential that exists in each present moment.
People that love each other, don’t plan to or want to disappoint their loved ones. For the most part the other’s failure to meet our expectations, their inability to fulfill the hopes of our heart awaken a deep despair.

At the instance that disappointment arrives and as the feelings wash over and through the body, the mind begins to make up a story of how this should not have happen…but it has. Love has been dashed and we struggle to be loving and caring in the face of disappointment and being disappointed.

We can even be flooded with this chemistry as our own efforts are meant with personal disappointment. It doesn’t always come from another. It comes from your own internal disappointment with yourself. Sometimes things really don’t work out very well. It’s true, isn’t it? Life always presents the “if only” disappointments, looming larger than life.

Non-Stop~Disappointment

Disappointment takes energy to cope. We get sad, depressed, worried, irritated, moody, anxious, grumpy, lethargic, or unresponsive, not just occasionally but repeatedly throughout our day, week…sometimes in small ways, sometimes big.

To be detached does not mean to not feel. It is about working with our expectation rather than being a victim of it. As trust builds in the ebb and flow of events in life…even though we cannot immediately see the outcome of a given situation, we know that it is connected to a prior situation and bridges to another situation ahead in the future.

With a detached perspective we can let go of expectations quickly, as life continues along its own course. When the shift happens quickly, the emotional and mental waters don’t begin the torrents of regret or anxiety.

With detachment comes both understanding and healing. With this surrender, acceptance flows. It’s the process of letting go of control over life, physically, mentally and emotionally. The more we can accept the way we are, the more we can accept life as it arrives.

Disappointment Destination

When we are lost in false hope…in disappointment, about the future or the past, we are not fully and authentically present in the moment.

The ancients taught that we experience everything in terms of: gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, happiness and unhappiness. We of course want gain, praise, pleasure, and happiness. We can’t be open to praise and not receive blame. We can’t experience pleasure and not feel pain. This is the nature of the reality that we know.

It would be great if life proceeded from one moment of perfect happiness to the next, but for most of us, this is not the case.

We can either live in denial of truth of our experience or obsess on our pains and disappointments. Or we can consciously accept, even embrace life not working out and trust that in doing so we will discover meaning in our life.

When disappointment occurs, the practice is to realise, “Ah, I’m lost in disappointment. I’ve confused myself with a desire and so identified with it that it is causing me to suffer.” It is not that the physical or emotional pain that accompanies disappointment is unreal; of course pain hurts. But pain arises, has a certain duration, and then passes.

Disappointment has a chemical quality because our minds refuse to accept what is; therefore, we relive the disappointment over and over again, never noticing after the initial experience that it is only a memory we are re-experiencing, much like watching old movie reruns.

Three Steps To Noticing You’re Arrived

1. Anticipating Disappointment
2. Disappointment Arrives
3. Living With The After Effects of Lingering Disappointment

Regarding the first one, remember…some of your biggest disappointments never happened. When you start to worry about a possible event in the future, watch how you contract into fear or anxiety.

Fear and anxiety feed on themselves which can become habituated to living in a perpetual state of disappointment just because you have fear of disappointment. Simply meet whatever happens with your best self.

How do you work with major disappointment when it arises? The first thing you can do is consciously notice you are in disappointment. Practice staying present and withstanding the emotional pull of small disappointments. Observe when you get swept away in the emotional waves of a big disappointment and lose perspective.

The next response is to experience the feelings of expanding or contracting in the body. Open to the experience of disappointment so that you can accept it and let it pass through your mind and heart. Then you can go on with your life’s journey and not be frozen in place by your pain. When we cling to what is not lasting, by contracting into our disappointment, we create our own unhappiness.

Lingering disappointment comes about because there is a tendency to transform our loss into a story instead of accepting it as an event. The story making can create the illusion that your loss is a fresh event when it is actually something that has passed. Locking you into a ghostlike state in which there is no freedom.

Boarding Now~Expectation To Celebration

Breakthrough to more acceptance, accept what is-without making others wrong for not meeting your expectations. Move past the disappointing event to the next event, it may be better. Time does not stop at a point, it keeps moving into the next moment. Breathe into it!

Breakthrough to celebration. You can not be half awake! You are either asleep or you are awake. It’s akin to suddenly getting the punch line of a joke. There is nothing to do except celebrate – what else is there left to do?

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The Self Soothing Visual Pleasure Of Photography

Images of colors and patterns can calm the nervous system. Flooding your visual senses, can transform your emotions.

Visual Intuition

In the artful expression of photography, we each extract certain visual features based on our intuition between what is pleasing or displeasing. Here we are exploring the relationship between emotions to images, with the focus of designing a method to self-soothe during emotionally challenging moments or events in life.

Photography And Color Psychology

In photography and color psychology, color tones and saturation play important roles. Chromotherapy dates back to ancient European and Asian culture, the psychology of color to heal, today it can be found alternative medicine. Color is such an integral part of photography, knowing that specific colors convey specific psychological feelings and evoke certain moods can be used to provide more calming environments.

When it comes to the psychology of color and how it impacts the way a viewer perceives an image a photographer will often use color to convey a mood in a photograph. Cool toned colors are green, blue and purple. Warm toned colors are red, yellow and orange. Cool tones tend to emit feelings of tranquility and calmness while warm tones run the gamut from anger to warmth depending on their saturation. Different cultures view color in different ways so response is no universal but individual.

Color Psychology In The Western World

Black: Power~Stability~Grief

White: Purity~Cleanliness~Innocence

Red: Speed~Anger~Love

• Red is associated with stimulation as it triggers endorphins in the brain.

Yellow: Happiness~Optimism

• Yellow spurs creative thoughts being mentally stimulating by jump starting the nervous system.

Blue: Calm~Tranquility

• Blue causes the body to produce chemicals that are calming.

Green: Nature~Growth~Harmony

• Green is the predominant color in the natural world makes it a soothing color to view, providing a tranquil psychological impact.

Orange: Fun~Energy

• Orange tends to stimulate activity and one’s appetite, it creates excitement. If it leans more toward the yellow, it’s more tranquil.

Purple: Royalty~Wealth

• Purple can be both uplifting and calming depending on its hue and saturation.

Reaction to color is instantaneous and it’s a powerful psychological tool. It’s used to influence what we buy, to produce calm, work more energetically, and send positive or negative feelings.

Self-Soothing

The self soothing visual pleasure of photography can be applied to every area of your life. Apply the knowledge to your daily life by creating soothing environments that provide a foundation for your emotional stability. If taking photo’s of colors and patterns help calm you down, snap away. Or use color in your environment to calm and collect yourself. Collect images to display that take you in the direction you most want to be in.

Take a moment now and ask yourself, how do you self-soothe? How can you soothe yourself in passive ways that may have profound ongoing effects? Let me know, comment below.

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Cultivating The Art Of Emotions As Energy

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Emotions Make Great Servants But Lousy Masters – Taoists

Emotions Are Energy

Emotions are very real, they can have a tremendous impact on our life. Our emotions can disrupt our plans, delay our journey or lead us astray with an array of distractions.

Emotions are always changing and fluctuating, making the journey rough or smooth. We feel emotions run through the body with a level of energy that contain sensations. As the emotional chemistry moves through the nervous system it leaves a mapping of energy held in the organs.

Emotional chemistry becomes physically toxic during emotional stresses, releasing harmful chemicals into the bloodstream. Creating the same issues in the body as toxic relationships, toxic environments and toxic foods. This pattern of emotional stress can be altered with a few steps to build awareness.

Cultivate The ‘Art Of Emotions As Energy’

1. Feel the sensation without acting on it.
2. Reflect without rushing ahead.
3. Focus on physically moving the energy in the body.
4. Transform negative emotions with awareness.

As this awareness grows, life begins to flow rather than the pattern of: go, stop, rest, gear up, go again. Life becomes less chaotic, less stressful, and begins to have a flow.

Developing skills to change your mood and your chemistry at any time creates a new kind of freedom.

You can only give what you’ve cultivated within yourself. Cultivate self-appreciation, gratitude, positive energy lifts the spirit.

Use the ‘Art Of Emotions As Energy’

1. Feel
2. Reflect
3. Focus
4. Transform…Your Emotions!

It is a matter of cultivating a new art until you are the master of your art.

If you need help with any step of the ‘Art Of Emotions As Energy’ call me directly to set up a session. 415-409-9264

Your body is your own personal messenger. Tune into its wisdom; treat it like a wise guide as well as a true friend.

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5 Core Emotions In Disney’s Inside Out Film

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They’re All In Your Head

Disney’s new film focuses on our five core emotions; Joy, Sadness, Disgust,  Fear, and Anger. In this new magical film emotions come to life. You can learn them from the “Inside Out”.

Riley, the young girl in the film-has five core emotions that live in her conscious mind where they influence her actions and memories.

• Her five core emotions are held at headquarter in her control console.
• Her new memories are housed in colored orbs, which are sent into storage at the end of every waking period.
• Her core memories power five “islands”, each of which reflects a different aspect of her personality.

As things in her life take an unexpected turn, Sadness begins touching happy memories and turning them sad, so she tries to isolate Sadness. In Joy’s absence, Anger, Disgust and Fear attempt to maintain her emotional state, rending her depressed and apathetic. Joy uses tools from Imagination Land to propel herself through the Sadness by turning Sadness into Joy.

Through this process, all of her emotions work together to help her lead a content, more emotionally complex life as she grows older. The full length film is on Youtube.

5 Core Emotions By Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman is an American psychologist who pioneered the study of emotions and their relations to facial expression. He has created an “atlas of emotions” with more than ten thousand facial expressions. He was involved in this film and it’s expression. His site offers training in emotions and is well worth a look.

The next post will be about facial expression and emotions. Until than here is a chart of emotions and a great do it yourself tool by Paul Ekman to become emotionally mindful.

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