It's funny how "metaphors" for emotions are actually just the normal physical signs of that emotional response. Rage really is hot. You really do get cold feet when you're experiencing a strong stress response to doing something. Your heart is where you experience many emotions.
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I think people just got used to a very cognitive model of emotion and stopped noticing that these things were literally true? "People" here might mostly just mean "me" though.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
any of you guys try to consult your physical state as evidence for how you're feeling? i do this, but I find most people claim to have more direct access to their emotional states than I seem to
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Replying to @sarelbic
Yes paying attention to physical state is an integral part of figuring out how I'm feeling
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
many people i talk with about this claim "figuring out how you feel" is an incongruous notion
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Replying to @sarelbic
Yes but this is what being good at something feels like. You've internalised the steps that you'd do consciously if you were less good at it. Most people who haven't learned to dissociate a bit too well practice from early enough to not notice. Rest of us have to play catch up.
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(also they're wrong and everyone benefits from training this skill it's just that it's like sight - most of the time you don't need to figure out what you're looking at but it's still a skill and e.g. a photographer is probably better at it than most)
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