We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions?

And that is the translation of the feelings that we may have about compassion into the wider world, into action.

So me talking about emotion is like Gandhi talking about gluttony, but it is the central organizing process of the way we think.

Calm him down somehow.

andcan'tget out ofthemood

What mood?

But in the meantime, his mood has changed. He's now at the bottom of the wave Depressed, melancholy.

In many conflicts sentiments of ethnic belonging are mixed with sentiments of a religious or political character.

Angry?

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Our emotions are complex.

Was he a little lowspirited?

And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the positive information.

There are emotions of the victims.

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Your emotions bore me.

into the mouth of a witness.

to put you in that tropicalisland mood?

A thing like that would play hard with anybody's nerves.

And you can take them on an emotional all pitches, or all sales presentations, are emotional at some level.

It's below your emotions.

The last thing is emotion.

I believe I am in the mood.

I've been in a tortured mood lately.

Getting sentimental?

Enough with feeling down.

The mean reds? You mean like the blues?

Tom tried to control his emotions.

Well, it's rather difficult.

I warn you that you've made a very serious admission. Would you like to make some explanation of it to the jury?

Yeah, I detected a little undercurrent.

The first drawback is that it turns out the pleasant life, your experience of positive emotion, is heritable, about 50 percent heritable, and, in fact, not very modifiable.

Five kids had emotional breakdowns.

Rainy days make me depressed.

I get that low sometimes.

Or the sensual feeling.

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And what I mean specifically, rather than just some phrase, is if you have emotion, human emotion, something that I experienced from you a day before yesterday at a level that is as profound as I've ever experienced, and if you'd communicated with that emotion I believe you would have beat his ass and won.

There's no emotional reaction to his mother, because that wire going from the visual areas to the emotional centers is cut.

So the key here is empathy.

And therefore, it's not a matter of opinion.

I'm not exactly comfortable with emotions.

And of course, we are all about the struggle of emotions.

Three things had combined to lay him low.

But you've got to snap out of this mood.