Suppressive Emotions
Suppressive emotions stop you feeling positive and negative emotions.
While you feel startle or fear, all positive and negative emotions are suppressed. While you feel fear, for example, you cannot feel positive emotions like pleasing taste or sexual pleasure or negative emotions like humiliation or loneliness.
Suppressive emotions are the only emotions that have non-facial physical effects.
While a few emotions have facial expressions, such as the loneliness and crying. only the suppressive emotions have physical effects that are not expressions. Startle, for example, makes you raise your arms and close your eyes. And fear makes your heart race and palms sweat.
Suppressive emotions are not important to your happiness.
You don't feel suppressive emotions very often and they only last a few seconds. When you do feel a suppressive emotion, it does not make you happy or unhappy - it's neutral.
While you feel startle or fear, all positive and negative emotions are suppressed. While you feel fear, for example, you cannot feel positive emotions like pleasing taste or sexual pleasure or negative emotions like humiliation or loneliness.
Suppressive emotions are the only emotions that have non-facial physical effects.
While a few emotions have facial expressions, such as the loneliness and crying. only the suppressive emotions have physical effects that are not expressions. Startle, for example, makes you raise your arms and close your eyes. And fear makes your heart race and palms sweat.
Suppressive emotions are not important to your happiness.
You don't feel suppressive emotions very often and they only last a few seconds. When you do feel a suppressive emotion, it does not make you happy or unhappy - it's neutral.
For more about emotions, visit: Happiness Dissected
