If Nick shares his struggles with weather I can share my unqualified thoughts
about psychology :-P I was thinking about the orange menace, how he deceives
everyone and how he manipulates his followers by controlling their emotions and
I was wondering if emotions deceive us in general. Do emotions deceive us by
creating a reality distortion field that paints the objects they have
identified as desirable (primarily food & mates for supper and pairing time) in
the brightest colors? Emotions certainly need to manipulate us in order to
control us. Their purpose is to influence our behavior and interactions.
Psychologist Mary C. Lamia writes "Without any deliberate effort on your part,
your brain evaluates every situation you encounter and decides if an emotion
should be activated to alert and protect you" [1]. They are in a sense the PR
machine and advertising agency of the body. As if the body would create an
advertising agency that highlights the objects it should seek. Emotions deceive
us because they exaggerate. If we are in love they turn the desired object of
person into some kind of wonderful dream. We only perceive positive traits
while negative ones are overlooked. If we hate something we only perceive
negative traits. These distortions act on top of your beliefs which "create a
cognitive lens through which you interpret the events of your world" [2]They
exaggerate to alert and protect us. Mary C. Lamia writes "By creating anxiety,
anger, sadness, fear, guilt, shame, disgust, embarrassment, or any number of
emotional responses that your brain has at its disposal, your emotional system
attempts to inform and protect you by making you feel whatever it is you need
to know." [1]Emotions deceive us because they can be misguided based on your
previous experience, for example in anxiety disorders or addiction: "Your
emotional system has no reason to lie, although it can be misguided based on
your previous experiences in the world that have informed it." [1]Apparently
emotions create a personal truth for each of us which shows us the world as
they (on behalf of our selfish genes) want us to see it. A kind of
personalized, distorted version of reality that reflects the importance of each
object based on our personal longings and desires. Mary C. Lamia writes
"nevertheless, your emotions will tell you the truth - your truth - even if you
don't want to listen." [1][1]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201208/do-emotions-lie[2]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-forward/202009/how-your-thinking-creates-your-reality-J.
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