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Kinesthetic triggers for emotions are everything related to the body: breathing, tension / relaxation, posture, facial expressions, expressive movements, etc. Go to the gym, load yourself properly and try to be sad. Most likely you will fall asleep from fatigue, but you will not be sad.
Expressive movements not only reflect emotions, but are one of the natural channels for triggering them. The one who owns his expressive movements can trigger the necessary emotions with their help. The one whose expressive movements are bright, but involuntary, triggers emotions in himself against his will. If you master relaxation and learn to live through emotionally difficult situations without expressive movements, the main tone in your soul will be calmness.
In the army, it is not in vain that they are taught the format: how to stand correctly, how to salute, how to respond to orders, what should be on the face, where the hands should be and what the shoulders should be. The one who bends beforehand under future fear and allows himself (in advance) frightened eyes begins to be afraid faster. Teach yourself to stand in the face of fear with straight shoulders and bold eyes — this is not taught in the army by chance. A loud, confident voice is also part of the bold, peppy format. See Civil and military format and Dealing with fear
The habit of expressive movements makes us more emotional. And more emotionally insecure
Expressive movements are largely the result of habit. If a child is accustomed to reacting emotionally to everything: with a cry, round eyes, a splash of arms or immediately lowered shoulders, then his learned emotional expressiveness will be the cause of his vivid emotional experiences. Once it will be great and great, in the company he will be bright and noticeable, but if you need to take a splinter out of his leg, then he will be more painful than others: out of habit, he will twist his face in pain, tremble and moan in advance. In this case, he trembles and groans more than others, not because he is in more pain than others, but because he is used to accompanying everything that happens with tension and expressive movements. He makes such a terrible face, not because he is in such terrible pain, but he is in such terrible pain because he makes such a terrible face.
If a person is accustomed to reacting to everything with a calm face, following the inner relaxation, then he endures the situation of pain more easily. As long as he does not tense up, does not twist his face, does not lose his breath — everything is tolerable. I could not resist, turned on my face, strained my body, breathed out — the pain pierces my whole body.
Tension and level of emotional reaction
Each of us has a habitual muscle tone – some normal level of tension/relaxation. And there is a level of tension specific to each individual emotion. This level can either be inherited from your parents or accidentally formed in the process of your personal life.
The important thing is that this tone (the level of overall body tension) can hinder or help your emotions! The general rule is this: body tension makes emotions sharper and brighter, relaxation — the emotion reduces and softens. Therefore, for example, in phlegmatic people, joy and enthusiasm are much less explosive and picturesque than in choleric people. Therefore, a person who has learned to remove fear or anger by relaxation may note that positive emotions «also became weaker.»
Conclusion: with emotions that interfere with us, we relax, breathe through our nose and follow our breath. And if we have joy, then we accelerate our inner tempo, strain and with all our might — celebrate! For example, March 8!