Where do emotions live — in the mind, or in the body?
Have you ever noticed how fear tightens the chest, or how sadness seems to drain the legs of their weight? These are not metaphors. Research suggests that emotions have consistent, measurable locations in the body — and that our capacity to sense them may be the very foundation of how we understand ourselves and one another.
The impact of using a non-native language in coaching or counseling: How are emotions, empathy, and trust affected?
Acquisition of a mother tongue occurs in emotionally rich and diverse contexts while foreign languages are typically acquired in academic environments, resulting in non-identical emotional reactivity in response to native and foreign languages. Sometimes we might even experience an emotional distance when engaged in conversation in a foreign language.