Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
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Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
Cats, Dogs, and Humans Part 1: How Pure Feeling Shapes Us Before We Can Think or Speak
Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright
24 minutes
3 months ago
Cats, Dogs, and Humans Part 1: How Pure Feeling Shapes Us Before We Can Think or Speak
Send us a text What if everything you thought you knew about emotions was backwards? Our journey begins with a startling truth: before you could think, speak, or even know who you were, you existed as a creature of pure affect. We dive deep into the fascinating world of pre-cognitive emotional experience, exploring how babies communicate through their first language—the language of feeling expressed through their bodies. We examine the profound implications of being born with an underdevelop...
Meaningful Happiness with Dr. Scott Conkright
Send us a text What if your emotions are not problems to fix but a precision navigation system that evolved to keep you alive, connected, and learning? We dive into core feelings as the body’s fast meaning-makers, showing how they tag what matters long before your thinking brain catches up. We start with a vivid contrast: plants don’t move, so they don’t need to decide. Animals do, and movement floods life with decisions about safety, energy, and opportunity. That’s where psychologist Silvan...
