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Salon
Science
Mary Elizabeth Williams

The science of emotional balance

We were designed to feel our feelings. The electrical impulses firing around in that squishy thing inside our skulls are guiding how we experience love, or fear, or panic. Yet we often forget that there's a science to our emotions, that they're not some wild, untamed force operating independent of our minds and bodies. We are made of energy, energy that cannot be created or destroyed — but can be transformed.

"This is not metaphysical," says neuropsychologist Dr. Julia DiGangi. "This is not metaphorical. It's actual neural chemical energy."

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