Startle
You feel startle when you are surprised.
You feel startle, for example, when you:
Startle makes you involuntarily protect yourself.
When you are startled, you do the following involuntarily:
Startle is not important to your happiness.
You don't feel startle very often and it only last a few seconds. When you do feel startle, it does not add or subtract from your happiness. It's brief mental effect is neutral.
Even if you wanted to, you can't do much to avoid startle. And you don't want to. It's helpful.
You feel startle, for example, when you:
- hear a loud noise
- hear a quiet noise that you did not expect
- feel something make contact with you unexpectedly
- feel yourself moving unexpectedly
- think you're alone, look up and see someone quietly standing there
Startle makes you involuntarily protect yourself.
When you are startled, you do the following involuntarily:
- raise your arms to protect your neck and torso
- you tense your neck and face muscles
- you close your eyelids
Startle is not important to your happiness.
You don't feel startle very often and it only last a few seconds. When you do feel startle, it does not add or subtract from your happiness. It's brief mental effect is neutral.
Even if you wanted to, you can't do much to avoid startle. And you don't want to. It's helpful.
