Going through the storm of emotions... I started thinking, how in one way or another, emotions and kind of thinking in my daily activities is designing my way of research inquiry process. The late American movie critic Roger Ebert(1942-2013)used this simple statement "Your intellect may be confused but your emotions never lie to you". understanding that statement I believe our emotions are often present convincing feels only to ourselves, but for emotions or opinion to go public, language and reason come into play. I feel it is our gut feelings that determine our actions and moral behavior, followed by the reason we think of later in justifying the doing or not doing the right or wrong thing. But why do we need to justify what surely we felt was right? Because this is how society understands. Someone will demand an explanation and we will be obliged to give reasons and not just any reason, but the one that satisfies, since that is what explanations do.
when I deal with my students and people around in my community, higher status is often given to the rational( reasoning) over the irrational( emotions) however, I found emotions and reasoning are intertwined and working together in my decision-making.
In Indian classical dance we, show 8 dominant human emotions like anger, love, joy, pride, sorrow, disgust, wonder, fear, I always wondered are these emotions listed above universal or are they dependent on culture or some other factor? The Bhagavad Gita(5th century BCE) Indian religious epic states that emotion has the advantage of being open to all, the weak and the lowly, the illiterate and the scholar. similarly, Darwin supported the naturalistic view that emotions are purely physiological and experienced across all cultures..The James-Lange theory asks us to consider that the bodily state causes the feeling. Antonio Damasio, the Portuguese neurobiologist has given a hypothesis which proposes that emotions play a critical role in the ability to make fast, rational decisions in complex and uncertain situations.
As I kept thinking deeper about emotions I could discover the connection between emotions and dance as a way of knowing... I realized as dancer, often I was trained to create a thought( Character/role narrating a story from epics) then start living into that thought and you become the thought..emotionally at that level of consciousness you are remembering every movement of your choreography creating perfect balance between time-space-music and eventually reach the fourth dimension spiritual bliss or aesthetic bliss.
This inference follows the knowledge acquired by the self through the mediation of senses and the entire concept or action stimulates enjoyment in the spectator causing the sentiments to be felt by them...similarly I sense that my thoughts, emotions, and actions could be focused to create a balance with my research investigation to stimulate the audience to feel similar sentiments.
when I deal with my students and people around in my community, higher status is often given to the rational( reasoning) over the irrational( emotions) however, I found emotions and reasoning are intertwined and working together in my decision-making.
In Indian classical dance we, show 8 dominant human emotions like anger, love, joy, pride, sorrow, disgust, wonder, fear, I always wondered are these emotions listed above universal or are they dependent on culture or some other factor? The Bhagavad Gita(5th century BCE) Indian religious epic states that emotion has the advantage of being open to all, the weak and the lowly, the illiterate and the scholar. similarly, Darwin supported the naturalistic view that emotions are purely physiological and experienced across all cultures..The James-Lange theory asks us to consider that the bodily state causes the feeling. Antonio Damasio, the Portuguese neurobiologist has given a hypothesis which proposes that emotions play a critical role in the ability to make fast, rational decisions in complex and uncertain situations.
As I kept thinking deeper about emotions I could discover the connection between emotions and dance as a way of knowing... I realized as dancer, often I was trained to create a thought( Character/role narrating a story from epics) then start living into that thought and you become the thought..emotionally at that level of consciousness you are remembering every movement of your choreography creating perfect balance between time-space-music and eventually reach the fourth dimension spiritual bliss or aesthetic bliss.
This inference follows the knowledge acquired by the self through the mediation of senses and the entire concept or action stimulates enjoyment in the spectator causing the sentiments to be felt by them...similarly I sense that my thoughts, emotions, and actions could be focused to create a balance with my research investigation to stimulate the audience to feel similar sentiments.
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