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"Your own habit patterns... are tied up not so much with your mind as with the behavior of your heart and intestines and glands. You become aware simply of nervousness when such habit patterns are frustrated, or when the behavior that they command can no longer be continued. The there arises a sense of strain, of lack of fulfillment." (D. Fink - Psych) (60:1) "Fear is a compound of physical and mental processes. To an awareness of danger, something more must be added. that something more is contributed by your physical reactions in preparation for running away. Danger, plus the muscle tensions that make the knees quake and the back shiver, is fear..., something that we do in five stages. First: we perceive danger. Second: we desire to escape... Third: bodily responses follow the first two intellectual factors. Fourth: some of the bodily responses stir up disagreeable sensations and feelings which we would be rid of and which create-- Fifth: a secondary motive to find relief in safety. If safety is impossible, these secondary feelings may become so intense as to produce paralyzing terror. You end your fear when you stop the process in any one of these five activities." (D. Fink - Psych) (60:2) "Nerves control all of our organs. These nerves are grouped chiefly in one part of the nervous system... This nervous center of our emotional life is called the interbrain... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:3) "So let me introduce you to your master of ceremonies, the interbrain. Here is the seat of your emotions. Love, hate, fear, rage, jealousy, with their various groups of organic behavior, all take their start from this point. Even sex is located in this part of your nervous system... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:4) "The interbrain sits just above the base of the skull. Stick your fingers in your ears, and you will be pointing right at it... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:5) "The purpose of the interbrain is to co- ordinate all of the activities of the body. It makes the body and mind work together as a unit." (D. Fink - Psych) (60:6) "When your organs are going through the motions of a fear reaction, you're going to feel the emotion of fear. Will power... has nothing to do with it. Your nerves, physical things having length, breadth, thickness, weight, are kicking up a row; and nature has placed the nerves of your interbrain just out of the reach of conscious control... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:7) "When the interbrain gets confused messages..., so that the same situation sets off the behavior of conflicting emotional reactions, the old interbrain loses its power of producing perfect automatic co- ordination between all parts of the body. Signals go to organs to do the things that hinder rather than help... Instead of community effort, it's civil war. Instead of man against environment, it's man against himself." (D. Fink - Psych) (60:8) "You now know that conflict between emotional habit patterns leads to interbrain misbehavior, gives you the jitters... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:9) "You know that emotion is behavior, something that you do with your entire body. Tensing your muscles is a part of emotional behavior... You cannot feel an emotion when your muscles are completely relaxed... (D. Fink - Psych) (60:10) "Mental troubles make you sick, literally. That is because mental trouble, in itself, is a physical disease, brought on by collision between opposing types of organ behavior, or, as we said previously, by collision between conflicting emotions." (D. Fink - Psych)
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