A New way to look at Emotions

The article "A New way to look at emotions - and how to master yours" talks of how ones emotions can be very dependent on the feedback that their body is giving them even though their thoughts might be giving the opposite signals. It also gives a few example of how one can fully master the understanding of their feelings through mindful activities and feeling new things; pushing themselves to do new things. I want to focus on the first part of the article on Emotion identification. The example given in the text talks of a woman that felt as if she was starting to fall for someone through the fact that her body was having all of the reactions that she expected it to have when she came across someone that she liked, the truth was that she didn't feel anything for him at all, but rather that she was becoming ill and her body was reacting accordingly. When i first read this i was a little confused as i thought that all feeling comes from the mind, how we interpret what we have around us and react to it. but after some thinking I realized that what had happened to this woman is completely understandable. our bodies react differently in different situations, and we get sensations sent to our brain due to these sensations. our brain then has to use the information that our senses has given it to draw a conclusion as to how they feel. If one has liked a lot of people throughout their life, they, or rather their brain, will know what combination of sensations it needs to receive from all of the senses for it confirm that he/she is starting to like someone. If another situation creates the same sensations, the brain will not be able to easily tell the two different situations appart other than relying on ones knowledge. Using the example from the Woman in the article, if she would have been at home and her body gave her the sensation that she was feeling sick which funnily enough was the same as when she started to like someone, she would know that it was the first as she had no-one around her and no-one on her mind, so her brain would be able to distinct the two easily. but in her case, she was on a date with a guy that she just met and since the sensation was the same, her brain made the assumption that she was starting to like the guy and would not realize that it was not the case until she got home. This also says a lot about how are bodies have evolved over time to allow us to easily distinguish the basic emotions, but when it comes to more complex ones, it struggles to distinguish them. Overall I found this article very interesting as it showed how even though we like to believe our race is the best in the world, there are clear imperfections even within ourselves that we have yet to figure out.