Compelling angers and unrealistic fears need to be known..

• +..Sublime.
• +..Glastonbury
• +..Closer to Wessex...and no where near!

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..Foundations of the mind are profoundly biological and subcortical. The guiding principle has been that raw affects arise from the dynamics of large-scale neural networks that generate instinctual emotional behaviors rather than from the higher, self-related perceptual brain regions that mediate cognitive awareness. Primal emotional feelings go hand in hand with emotional action dynamics, constituting distinct varieties of mental experience. The resulting affective dynamics also have characteristic whole-body feels to them: They are the primary-process phenomenal-experiential states that depend heavily on visceral bodily representation within the brain (the core SELf) that engenders primal “affective consciousness” and secondarily on autonomic arousals that can be indirectly experienced by the higher mental apparatus. Because these subcortical dynamics—large-scale analog network functions—are the primordial wellsprings of emotional life, psychotherapists need to clearly envision the nature of these psychic energies in order to more directly, and thereby more effectively deal with complex human emotional problems in psychotherapy.
Panksepp PhD, Jaak; Biven, Lucy. The Archaeology of Mind