Our bodies often know about our emotions before we do. It's often hard for us to recognize and parse our emotions, especially if we're going through it or have a long history of struggles and trauma.

A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through ...

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All feelings–vs. thoughts–have a certain physiology to them. You cannot experience an emotion without at the same time experiencing a corresponding bodily sensation (or sensations). And each of your ...

From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel emotions in our bodies, not just in our brains. But have we always felt––or at ...

Hot colors represent engagement of a body area. Cool colors represent disengagement of a body area. We all know colloquial sayings that link body areas and physical sensations to specific emotions.

Do you think you're hiding what you're feeling? Your body doesn't lie. Fatigue, stress, repressed emotions: our gestures, postures, and physical reactions often say much more than our words. Our body ...

When most people think about blood pressure, they usually think about heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular health.

Although Parkinson’s disease (PD) is primarily defined by motor symptoms, non-motor manifestations—including deficits in social cognition—are increasingly recognized for their impact on daily ...

Dance is a perversive human activity. All cultures, all over the world, engage in dancing. Dancing often happens within culturally relevant contexts like social gatherings, festive holiday events, ...