Emotional Anchoring

Have you ever been in a bad mood and suddenly everything seems annoying? The sun is too bright, your shoes are too tight, and people are too loud. That is emotional anchoring. Your feelings are like an anchor that keeps your mind stuck in one spot. When you feel happy, that same sun feels warm and your shoes feel cozy. Your filter changes based on how you feel inside.

Your filter changes based on how you feel inside. You do not see the world and then feel a feeling. You feel a feeling and then see the world through it. This is the order. Feeling first. Seeing second. The angry person does not see an annoying world. The angry person sees a normal world through angry glasses. The grateful person does not live in a better world. The grateful person lives in the same world with a wider lens. Change the feeling and you change the filter. Change the filter and you change the world. Not the actual world. The only world you will ever experience. Which is the same thing.

Affect-as-information: emotional state determines stimulus salience. Feeling first, seeing second. Change the feeling and you change the filter. Change the filter and you change the only world you will ever experience.

SOUND: A song that makes you cry because of a memory even if it is a happy song: the ears running the data through an emotional filter.

SMELL: A perfume that makes you feel safe or scared: the nose reading an emotion not a molecule.

TASTE: Comfort food that tastes better when you are sad: the tongue adjusting the recipe based on the heart.

TOUCH: A hug that feels suffocating when you are mad but perfect when you are sad: same pressure, different filter.

SIGHT: A messy room looking creative when happy but stressful when tired: same room, different glasses.

BODY: Feeling heavy when depressed and light when excited: the body weighing itself on an emotional scale.

Music: Madness by Muse

Part of Perception & The Filter — CONSCIOUSNESS — Education Revelation