Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and

pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional
state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving rise to these subjective sensations
have remained largely unresolved. Brilliant research by Finnish scientists has mapped the areas
of our body that are experiencing an increase or decrease in sensory activity when we
experience a particular emotion.

Depending on whether we are happy, sad or angry, we have physiological sensations that are
not located in different areas of the body. We overlook this reality from one day to the next (the
famous lump in the breast generated by anxiety, the feeling of warmth that pervades our face
and our cheeks particularly when we feel the shame), and do not consciously realize how
much the location of these body areas activated by our emotions and how they vary considerably
depending on the nature of the emotion.

Researchers around the world are slowly integrating research on how our energetic and
emotional states cause health and/or disease. How we connect emotionally to our overall
wellness and wellbeing may indeed be more relevant than any supplement, food, exercise,
medical intervention or health treatment.

Finnish scientists have for the first time mapped areas of the body activated according to each
emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, etc). This map was compiled following a study of 700
Finnish, Swedish and Taiwanese volunteers.

They used a topographical self-report tool to reveal that different emotional states are associated
with topographically distinct and culturally universal bodily sensations; these sensations could
underlie conscious emotional experiences. Monitoring the topography of emotion-triggered bodily
sensations brings forth a unique tool for emotion research and could even provide a biomarker
for emotional disorders.

Participants were first asked to watch video sequences associated with different emotions and
identify parts of their body where they felt an increase or decrease of bodily sensations.

Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger
conscious emotional experiences. The resulting map shows that each type of emotion activates a
network of specific areas of the body, distinct from those activated by other types of emotions.

Every type of emotion carries a specific unique energy and a different vibrational frequency. All
organs, tissues, membranes, glands, cells, vibrate in precise frequencies in the human body and
they are all influenced by our emotions.

Different emotions were consistently associated with statistically separable bodily sensation
maps across experiments. These maps were concordant across West European and East Asian
samples. Statistical classifiers distinguished emotion-specific activation maps accurately,
confirming independence of topographies across emotions.

By: Michael Forrester