Okay, I confess that I just couldn’t leave this one alone. Here’s the link:
Botox. Emotions. Do we stifle our ability not just to convey emotions to others, but also to feel it for ourselves, by paralyzing the physical mechanisms in our faces by which we demonstrate our feelings? I don’t think this would be half as interesting if it was about just conveying messages to others. But this article, and reference to the research supporting it, is suggesting that we are capable of denying ourselves the ability to feel emotions based on a lack of ability to create ‘the face’ to go with them. Fascinating!
What does this say about the close connection between our bodies and our minds? Or our hearts? What do we need to do to nurture and feed our emotion-creating physical self? How do we, as community-based people, spread the news that we should show our emotions in a physical way in order to continue to connect the pathways in our bodies that make this experience possible inside ourselves?
Like I said, I just couldn’t leave this one alone. I’m looking forward to reading the full research paper when it comes out.
Alex Russell
