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love is in the chest?

Black Rose

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i remember talking to my therapist about how i experience my feelings and discovered that i have never felt love in the region of my chest. i think this has to do with me being INTJ. i have always felt things in my head but not my body. i think this could mean different functions could relate to different experiences. F types would feel things in their chests i suspect. S types might be more physical in the muscle extremities.

i would like to map where functions are in the body further so if you have any comments about how it should be segmented please elaborate.

The Platonic soul consists of three parts:

the logos, or logistikon (mind, nous, or reason)
the thymos, or thumetikon (emotion, spiritedness, or masculine)
the eros, or epithumetikon (appetitive, desire, or feminine)
The parts are located in different regions of the body:

logos is located in the head, is related to reason and regulates the other part.
thymos is located near the chest region and is related to anger.
eros is located in the stomach and is related to one's desires.
 

Cognisant

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Hmm this is serious, we're going to need to operate.

Okay everybody listen up I'm going to need an anesthetist, nurse, topologist, topologist and a shrink, volunteers welcome, you're all fine honest folk so I'll check your credentials later.

Alright lets butter up.

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Edit: The second topologist was a typo but it's too funny to delete.
 

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my understanding of this energy stuff is rather limited. here is what i have, on the top of my mind.

where you feel unity should depend on where you feel identity at the time. last time i could locate a unity experience was in a social context and in that context my identity was in the solar plexus, which is not overly surprising, because this is a social circuit. each chakra is a possible frame of reference for identity, or so they say. personally i can't quite understand being at the throat or root chakra, but navel, solar plexus, heart, third eye and crown are familiar to me. perhaps throat is too mundane to notice.

apart from rare unity experiences the other opportunity to sense your current gravity is experiences of sudden separate self contractions, for instance fear, hurt, loss of love. because you become aware of your circuit when there is a sudden contrast.

i bet you are familiar with a hurt in the heart area.

it happens to me just after i communicate something that creates separation between me and someone else, often a subtle projection of sorts.

this hurt is in the heart, not in the chest.

a unity experience in the chest is when you feel like hugging the world, it's that exctasy, 5htp, serotonin, mdma type of feeling. i speculate that these serotonin drugs make us transcend the whole gut center, because the gut is just so liberated, so we end up in the chest. the saying love goes through the stomach might be related to that. you find love when you forget about egocentric needs, you forget about egocentric needs when your survival is ensured, your survival is ensured when you are satiated. have a buch of bananas.

i have had mystical intuitions about how the ego/separate self incarnates into the chest but is then forwarded to go to different centers, where it spends it's time. the heart is the retreat or fall back option, when letting go of involvement in the other centers. that is if my memory of these intuitions is accurate. i was thinking about how people with a fearless temperament go through life. imagine you just hug someone, while approaching them and you really mean it. not only do you open up your chest by spreading the arms, it's also as if the chest becomes your navigational focus, because you target your chest at the other person, the rest of you is just following the momentum. you are not moving from the head or gut, when you do this. you must retreat from another center or rather refrain from pushing into another center in the first place, for a moment, so you can move like that.
 

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i remember talking to my therapist about how i experience my feelings and discovered that i have never felt love in the region of my chest. i think this has to do with me being INTJ. i have always felt things in my head but not my body. i think this could mean different functions could relate to different experiences. F types would feel things in their chests i suspect. S types might be more physical in the muscle extremities.

Is there a point to mapping it? I mean, what use does it serve beyond what we can state in the initial speculation?

I mean, I understand what you mean by "feeling things in your head," but it's not like I've just experienced hurt in my head. Sometimes I feel ache elsewhere, and it might not be type related but just how conscious I happen to be of my own body and emotions. So I wonder if you're being too speculative here.

Hmm this is serious, we're going to need to operate.

Okay everybody listen up I'm going to need an anesthetist, nurse, topologist, topologist and a shrink, volunteers welcome, you're all fine honest folk so I'll check your credentials later.

Alright lets butter up.

Ready, Doctor.

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Well nurse the anesthetist isn't here yet so I'll need 100ml of bourbon and a hammer.
 

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Okay, for those of you who think experienced like TRUE love or whatnot, is it like a crushing feeling in the chest? Or is that just a 'I have a crush on someone' type of love and not real mutal love?
 

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I've felt the chest/stomach type twice and they were crushes. Actually "crush" is a good description of what it felt like, I think because it's related to anxiety attacks, but I never had one so I'm not sure.

Other times where there was actual rapport and
compatability I would just become unusually smiley and optimistic(head?).
 

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For me, I find that, in one of those really really really romantic moments when I say 'I love you', a buzz, kinda like electric shock, wells from my abdomen and goes into my head.
 

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It depends on what type of love you're talking about. the greeks alone define multiple different types of love. different types of shallow love all feel as though they are experienced in different places (at least for me). maybe the way we experience shallow forms of love is type specific but i'm willing to bet that it'll be extremely difficult to find any clear distinctions. i don't really think typology is enough (or even useful) when it comes to understanding love or how we experience it.

This may be useful as a basis to form general impressions of how people experience "love".
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/646.full.pdf+html
 

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love is in the chest

I just love all things Donkeys. Sometimes they just make me smile.Will tonights game report make the rags. Might even buy a paper sometime tomorrow. I know, I know... but sometimes you do need to have a hard copy of history.
 

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I never really felt emotions physically outside of my head until I started purposefully gallivanting around in my own subconscious after an amusing stint with stage hypnosis. I accidentally created a few odd, but benign unconscious associations while experimenting with self-hypnosis. They're remarkably resilient, as I still have them a few years later, though I could probably 'undo' them if I wished. For example, I physically feel anger/irritation in my left cheekbone (and a little in my right forearm) now. I'm often aware of the physical sensation before the actual emotion.

It seems natural for many variations of this 'physical-emotional' phenomena to arise. A common one being love and affection associated with heart/chest/lungs. I certainly don't see anything remotely mystical in it. Since you're likely fixated with your own mind and assign it the greatest value, it's only natural that you 'feel' primarily with your head.
 
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