Gitalongs: THE SIX PRIMITIVE EMOTIONS

Let's use use your hand, palm up, to explain the six survival emotions of our primitive brain.


Let your palm represent LOVE –- acceptance, attraction, protectiveness, nurture are a few manifestations of love:
Let your pinkie represent JOY –- confidence, peace, happiness, contentment are manifestations of joy; 
Let your ring finger represent GRIEF –- sadness, loss, emptiness, heartfelt angst, vulnerability;
Let your middle finger represent PAIN –- physical and/or emotional discomfort, feeling vulnerable;
Let your pointer represent FEAR –-  uncertainty, lack of control, vulnerability, fight or flight;
And let your thumb represent ANGER –- hot rage or cold fury, a protective/defensive response to Grief, Pain, or Fear.

Now make a hard fist.

Poetry: WEDNESDAY OUT OF SYNC

Have you ever found yourself
someplace you thought you wanted to be
but didn’t,
and wanting to be where you wish you didn’t
but did,
so then tried to be where you wished to be
but shouldn't,
then tried to be present where your body was
but couldn’t? 

Go home, sleep it off.
The cure for this problem is Thursday.

Annapolis, Maryland - 1979
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