{"id":154,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:14:40","slug":"real-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"REAL FEELINGS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Are Somatic Markers real feelings ?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Somatic markers are not the real feelings, but special time-capsules of feelings coming from &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">secondary emotions<\/span>&#8216;. These are emotions filtered through memories that have taken the form of judgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Somatic markers connect to a potential future outcome which is based on the memory of a past experience. When a negative somatic marker is projected onto a possible outcome, it functions as an <em><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">alarm bell<\/span><\/em>, but a positive marker is as an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><em>incentive.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This internal system is <a href=\"?p=809\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">biased<\/span><\/a> to avoid pain and to seek pleasure based on data from the <a href=\"?p=451\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">working memory<\/span><\/a> and the amount of attention paid to the bodily signals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"> image or sight<\/span> of an aggressive looking man provokes actions in the sympathetic nervous system. This affects the internal milieu of the body through actions on hormonal levels and in the muscles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This change in bodily state then leads to patterns of nerve cell activities in the brain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=155\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: red; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 321px; height: 141px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/giraffe-joke.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Somatic Markers real feelings ? Somatic markers are not the real feelings, but special time-capsules of feelings coming from &#8216;secondary emotions&#8216;. These are emotions filtered through memories that have taken the form of judgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears. Somatic markers connect to a potential future outcome which is based on the memory of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}