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The amygdala has close
connections with the hypothalamus, the part of the
brain which instigates
emotional behaviour.
This ensures that we can
respond quickly to incoming stimuli, particularly
when such reactions are important for our survival.
One of the major neurological
components of emotion is the Autonomic Nervous
System (ANS).
This has two divisions,
........... the sympathetic division, which prepares the body for fight or flight,
........... and the parasympathetic division which
works to conserve energy.
The sympathetic division
energises the body by speeding up the heart rate, stimulating the production of adrenalin and other neurotransmitters and stimulating the conversion of
glycogen to create
energy.
The parasympathetic
division slows down the heart rate, stimulates
digestion and the secretion of saliva. The
evidence suggests that different types of music
stimulate aspects of each division.
Research exploring the way that
music is processed by the brain suggests that there is
no easy way of
predicting the effects of music on an individual's
behaviour. While,
as a species, humans may share many automatic
responses to sound, our conscious responses, which, in
part, mediate the emotional responses, are unique.
Endorphines are the "love hormones" released during sex, childbirth
and breastfeeding, and they really are like an aphrodisiac, causing people "under the
influence" to fall
in love with each other without any rational
filtering. I try
not to usurp the power of these hormones,
........... and I work hard to keep the family focused on each other in that first hour after
birth,
........... because I want them bonding with each other instead of with me. From Source
LOVE, like fear, triggers the emotions linked to
the fight-or-flight response.
Our system overshoots to cause
our quick response or heal the pain and therefore
produce the PLEASURE only after the HURT has been
drugged:
But extra endorphins make
this sensation more pleasurable. The pupils dilate, the mouth smiles unconsciously.
McCabe says people in love
have a more positive view of the world. "Things don't
seem to upset them as much as they would normally,
their level of happiness, optimism and general
wellbeing is better," she says. From Source
Endorphines are the "love hormones" released during sex, childbirth and
breastfeeding, and they really are like an aphrodisiac, causing people "under the influence"
to fall in love with
each other without any rational filtering. I try not to usurp the power of
these hormones,
........... and I work hard to keep the family focused on each other in that first hour after birth,
........... because I want them bonding with each other instead of with me. From Source
LOVE, like fear,
triggers the emotions linked to the fight-or-flight response.
dorphins:
"The Morphine of the Mind"
Endorphins (meaning "morphine within") and
enkephalins ("in the head") were only two of several
morphine-like substances (opioids) discovered within
our brains as recently as the '70s. Enkephalins are
pentapeptides, and endorphins are polypeptides
containing 30 amino acid units. Opioids are considered
stress hormones -- alongside others including
corticotrophin, cortisol, and catecholamines
(adrenaline, noradrenaline).
Stress hormones are released by activity in
sympathetic fibers; following pain, excitement, anxiety, hypoglycemia, cold, or hemorrhage.
While adrenaline's release is
accompanied by renewed synthesis, other hormones require positive stress (eustress) for reproduction.
Diet, exercise, and general
wellbeing control the production of endorphins, but stress and pain
trigger their release. Examples: eating spicy foods (your
mind believes your mouth is on fire and supplies some
natural morphine), having charging sex (that sudden
giddy feeling, or those painless pin pricks in your
brain), or stubbing your toe (pain again).
Why would a natural analgesic occur during something as pleasurable as sex?
Endorphins (and elevated serotonin levels) cause "runner's high", a
release which occurs due to necessary pain alleviation in
stressed muscles.
Invigorating sex is exertion, and therefore causes
the same release.
Intense pleasure also relates to pain; women often have the same
extroverted, and chemical, reactions in child birth as they do during sex. You know those moments when you
feel like it's just too much, but you're loving it
and don't ever want to stop?
Ever get the cranial pin pricks
and euphoria right then? Some people release
endorphins during orgasm, others do so from non-climactic over-stimulation.
Endorphins control emotions as
well. The psychological model is "Glad, sad, and mad", with fear
as a sidebar. The average person (harrumph) is
typically in glad mode.
If duress downshifts them to sad or mad,
endorphins are
released for re-elevating them to glad.
If fear strikes, endorphins similarly allow
coping by providing a feeling of calm euphoria. Such
a nice feeling, perhaps too nice of one. Your brain
(the primal portion) maintains a certain quota of
endorphins to ensure survival under duress. If you don't have that quota,
you've got problems. In the instance of pain you
simply aren't supplied with an analgesic, but it
becomes more complex with emotional reactions. A startle reflex can escalate into terror and paralysis, depression can downgrade into catatonia.
Or your body can compensate by
supplying adrenaline,
........... which is intended for lifting you back up to glad mode
........... but often
overshoots you into an explosive rage.
Why would your mind consider this better? It's simple. If your upset is
inspired by a physical threat, then obviously
paralysis and catatonia musn't be allowed. Rage may be draining, but it is more
likely to get you through situations than lying
there with your head in the sand is. Adrenaline is
your body's response to the threat of atrophy and
death. Resource
Our system overshoots to cause
our quick response or heal the pain and therefore
produce the PLEASURE only after the HURT has been
drugged:
But extra endorphins make
this sensation more pleasurable. The pupils dilate, the mouth smiles unconsciously.
McCabe says people in love have a more positive view of the
world. "Things don't seem to upset them as much as
they would normally, their level of happiness,
optimism and general wellbeing is better," she
says. From Source
Theatrical or musical
performance in "church" activates many of our senses
and often gives vent to the actual movement of the
body in automatic response to the drug high. That is
why we enjoy watching TV which is designed to attack
us at all levels but the intellectual:
When you watch TV, brain
activity switches from the left to the right
hemisphere. In fact, experiments conducted by
researcher Herbert Krugman showed that while
viewers are watching television, the right hemisphere is twice as active as the left, a
neurological anomaly.
The crossover from left to
right releases
a surge of the body's natural opiates: endorphins, which include
beta-endorphins and enkephalins.
Endorphins are structurally identical to opium and its derivatives (morphine, codeine, heroin, etc.). Activities that release
endorphins (also called opioid peptides) are usually habit-forming (we rarely call them addictive).
These include cracking
knuckles, strenuous exercise, and orgasm.
External opiates act on the same receptor sites
(opioid receptors) as endorphins, so there is
little difference between the two.
Again, notice the fact that
things like showtime "worship" or watching a ball
game or TV the goal is to drug the "human" or higher
nature and turn us into COWS who can be attracted by
music and body action and will, as all abusers know,
GIVE MORE MILK:
First of all, when you're watching television
the higher brain regions (like the midbrain and
the neo-cortex) are
shut down, and
most activity shifts to the lower brain
regions (like
the limbic system).
The neurological processes
that take place in these regions cannot accurately be called
"cognitive."
The lower or reptile brain simply stands poised to react to
the environment using deeply embedded "fight or flight" response programs.
Moreover, these lower brain
regions cannot distinguish reality from fabricated images (a job performed by the
neo-cortex),
so they react to television
content as though it were real, releasing
appropriate hormones and so on. Studies have
proven that, in the long run,
too much activity in
the lower brain leads to atrophy in the higher brain
regions.
"Even a dog that is barking
"continuously" is really producing a drip, drip, type of
non-continuous interruptive irritant, because no
matter how small the gap of silence between barks, we
can hear it, and our physiological system cannot
keep adjusting back and forth, from the sound to
the silence, in order to define its level and then mask
it. The longer it goes on, the greater the irritant,
until it becomes tortuous. Loudness has a
little, but not much, to do with it. The irritant is
there as long as you can hear it. (Note: the mind is
abraded or ground to powder because it is running a foot
race trying to adjust from one note to another and then
to silence."
RELATION OF THIS TO MUSIC
"The continuity or continuousness of notes in a melody
is created because the previous notes often have overtones
or harmonies that will usually (not always) match
the next note or notes in a fairly audible way. Thus we
are hearing "more of the same" (or at least
partially more of the same) in the succeeding notes, and
this ties notes together into a melody or continuum of
sounds and/or harmonies.
and this ties notes together into a melody or
continuum of sounds and/or harmonies.
"This is also what creates a sense of "key" or
tonality in music and melody.
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