A lot of psychology research hasn’t embraced the concept that both a positive and negative emotion can be held simultaneously. But a new study reveals something new about how complex feelings are formed in the brain. #science#neuroscience#emotions#research

Mixed emotions – neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once

Bittersweet experiences aren’t uncommon. Do people ever truly feel both positive and negative at the same exact moment, or do we just switch quickly back and forth?

Shrinks are years behind, they obfuscated souls with chemicals.

Amazing how psychologists are mystified by how our brains are more complicated than those of rats

There's a third state where these opposites can be consciously encompassed. It's not a synthesis, it's each finding its place in an inner system, allowing centering in the third state, which respects these opposites, and processes them, but does not identify with either of them.