Where do our EMOTIONS come from?

Question

Where do our EMOTIONS come from?

Answer 1

From the heart where the soul exists.

We may feel them psychologically but the heart is where all true emotion, good or bad, originates.

That is why we have expressions such as heartfelt, heartbroken, soul-weary, the heart bleeds - we actually have the ability to feel these emotions physically in the heart area not the brain. The brain just tries to rationalise these impulses.

Poets and philosophers have spent more time pondering on the workings of the heart in correlation to the brain than anything else.

Some schools of progressive scientific thought are actually beginning to acknowledge that the heart has an 'intelligence' and 'memory' of it's own based on experience.

Answer 2

Emotions come from events, from some comes happiness, others, sadness.

Answer 3

The brain

Answer 4

from our brain maybe

Answer 5

From a small structure on the more "primitive" part of the brain called the "amygdala".  

See here:  http://biopsychiatry.com/amygdala.htm

Answer 6

Partly by family genetic traits, partly by sociological built up, partly by acquired intelligence as knowledge coupled with cultural advancement plus the maturity in life! These are all shaped both in the character and in the mindset to bring the emotion out at time of happiness, sorrowful and in provocative time!

Answer 7

our sense of self

Answer 8

Depends, do you refer to the effects of the chemicals in the body and on the brain or do you mean how the mind becomes aware of and processes this information?

Answer 9

from our need to be emotional.

love

Pluto

Answer 10

Emotions come from nowhere.  They arise out of nothing and have a real effect on the world.  They are, in the strictest sense, magical.  Further investigation is pointless.

Answer 11

Feelings.

Answer 12

A number of ways of answering this question:

Biophysiochemical perspective-

For guys they come from snips and snail and puppy dog tails.

For gals, its from sugar and spice and everything nice!

Neurocognitively-

Amydalya (with a sidenote from the Pons)

Other possibilities:

Id, Supergo (the unconscious part only), Lucifers flute, Dopamine/Seratonin/Histamine variations in the mesolimbic pathways, physio/parasympathetic/evolutionary shortcuts, a means of communicating, the brains answer to ram memory, or an imbalance of vapors

Answer 13

The dry psychology answer is from our lymbic system, a part or our brains which fish and reptiles don't have but mammals do.