Brain and emotions

When we learn something, the nerve cells, or neurons, grow and grow. New synapses grow and develop to create neural networks when we learn. Think of the Harry Potter dormitory with the moving stairs that connect everywhere, I guess that’s how I’d put it visually.

When we learn something consciously or subconsciously, the body would release chemicals in effect of the learning process. Example, I call ice-cream as ‘happy food’, because after eating them, I’d feel happy or content. The sequence is already set. Or is it? Is it the actual food or the sequence of it that made me feel what I felt?

Or remember when you feel pissed when someone did something annoying, but kinda, sickyly, you subconsciously expect them to do that annoying thing, and get yourself pissed, which then you said “I hate it when he do that!”? Go figure…

Anyways, I believe the body has learned what it must do to trigger the release of feel-good chemicals or endorphins. So we do things that trigger the emotion we want to feel.

I haven’t seen simple articles about how the body affects the emotion we want to feel, and so on. Most of the time it’ll circle around the matters of the heart.

If you do the repeated tasks because they make you feel what you’re supposed to feel, then is it real? I guess… as real as the owner wants…

Now…

Do you put lower targets and keep telling yourself you’re at ‘certain level’ so that you’re teaching your body to handle softer hurts in case you fail? Or so that you could consciously or subconsciously pumping out self-esteem booster remarks from others?

Do you make out in public to trigger the endorphins into releasing smitten butterfly-ish feelings in your tummy, hence convincing yourself and others that you’re in love?

Do you ask the people around you how are they doing because by believing you’re everyone’s best friend would trigger that warm fuzzy feeling?

Again, how real are those feelings? As real as the electric pulses ...