The Feeling of Wanting to Impress Others
As I've developed my meditation practice over the years, my awareness of how my body has reacted to certain things increased. Specifically, I noticed how my body would feel when I had particular thoughts. Where you feel things When people experience emotions, they are having a physical reaction to a particular thought. Fear, anxiety, happiness, passion. These emotions you all feel in your gut. This makes sense on a physiological level: the gut, or stomach, has been described as the body's second brain. However, people aren't often consciously aware of this: you may feel something, but have you consciously thought about where in your body you feel it, and what exactly is the physical feeling itself? The feeling of wanting to impress others There is a lot that I can say about how certain emotions manifest as physical feelings. I plan to in the future. But here I wish to speak about what was, for me, the most profound feeling, since it is one that, in many respects, has domina