This is particularly bad when you are experiencing that emotion for real and also for independent reasons experiencing the physical sensation associated with the emotion more strongly.
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So there's a fun thing called "misattribution of arousal" which is basically that the physical symptoms of an emotion can be hard to distinguish from the emotion itself. Classic example of this is that fear makes other people seem more attractive because of overlapping response.
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So for example, purely hypothetically you understand, say you: 1. Are a bit anxious. 2. Experience anxiety as a tense shoulders threat response 3. Also are fucking up your shoulder muscles by a recent change in work environment causing bad posture Then...
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...this might result in "a day where you are weirdly anxious". Fortunately I am a very intelligent person who would never fall for such a foolish mistake. Couldn't be me.
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The extreme version of the idea, which is certainly too reductionist as is but can be very useful as basis of meditation practices, is that emotions are just particular (and partly mutable) combinations of specific physical sensations linked with certain thought patterns.
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“Just” doing a lot of work in that sentence
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Anxious days suck, but you should look at this the other way. You can program yourself with certain behaviors for positive outcomes.
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