What Is The Emotional Profile Of Your Brain?

For a very long time, psychologists and psychiatrists used to study the population according to personality models and intelligence type.

One could be extrovert, introverted, sociable, neurotic, have a logical-mathematical intelligence, or musical… and the emotions in all that?

Isn’t that what governs our behavior most of the time? Isn’t that what makes us love, hate, fear or desire?

Indeed, and it was Professor Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, who proposed the need to establish a new parameter: the emotional profile.

Would you like to know which you identify with the most?

1. Resistance

Day after day we have to face challenges and difficulties. In this case, resistance is the personal ability that each of us has to recover from a difficult situation, in the  face of a loss, a disillusion, or a simple argument with a couple or with a friend.

You can get up quickly by learning from your mistakes, or you can “hang around” for a long time what happened.

2. The attitude

In general, how do you confront reality? Are you optimistic, cautious, skeptical, reasonable… or negative?

Of course, the mood can vary from day to day, but we all have our own unique style.

3. Social intuition

It corresponds to empathy, to the ability to read and observe in others these signals which say so much about the people around us.

Are they happy? Are they worried? Disappointed? Non-verbal language offers many leads that go unnoticed by many people, and which, for others, are easy to understand.

Are you socially intuitive? Or are you confused and can’t see the signs?

4. Self-awareness

Here we are referring to the ability to perceive and understand our own emotions and feelings.

Can you recognize what makes you angry? What makes you nervous? Your disappointments?

Sometimes we feel bad without really knowing why, and this discomfort ends up manifesting itself in the form of illnesses. Professor Davidson tells us that one can be “self-aware or opaque. “

5. Context sensitivity

How do we react to specific contexts?

Some people vary a lot depending on who they talk to or where they are. Others remain the same in all situations and with all types of people.

There are circumstances that we are more sensitive to in certain contexts, but in general there are differences between each individual.

Do you know how to adapt? Are you still the same? Or are you changing the way you act?

6. Centered or dispersed

This is about everyone’s ability to eliminate emotional distractions to stay focused on a specific task. Are you able to do it?

Sometimes we are assailed with problems, concerns … and we are unable to move forward in our obligations with our head elsewhere.

However, other people manage to stay in control. They put aside this avalanche of emotions to focus on a task.

According to Professor Richard J. Davidson, we all fall into one of the poles of these categories, drawing a characteristic and unique emotional profile.

This can be used to dig into the neural and emotional substrate of our brain, and find abilities that can be trained to improve our quality of life, to be more emotionally effective, more empathetic and responsive, and to generate our reality more optimally.

Some of you may not identify with yourself, or see yourself more in one pole than in the other.

But what is certain is that for a moment it  highlighted certain aspects of ourselves …