How does the brain characterize the relationship between time and emotion?

There is no necessary connection.

Thoughts are generated by the brain, while emotions are the result of physical reactions and the brain's synthesis of information, but physical responses do not necessarily have the opportunity to generate thoughts.

If you have to talk about the causal relationship between who controls whom, then you must be deeply disappointed, because the so-called mind does not necessarily control emotions.

Unless you're born with either of these personality types, you may have a little more emotional control than others, namely, extraverted thinking and introverted thinking.

Thinking is composed of all kinds of concepts in the brain, it is good at thinking about concepts to get answers, and has always been eager to understand things, to discover the objective laws and connections between everything.

Emotion is a kind of value judgment, which is mainly based on the physical experience and emotional experience caused by external objects to make decisions, and whether the experience is pleasant or not is the key to whether the individual accepts external objects. Sensation usually includes a variety of perceptions acquired by the physical senses.

Intuition is an experience that people often don't know where intuition comes from or how it happens, and people simply call it a "sixth sense" in everyday life. That is to say, it does not need to go through the path of feeling, thinking, emotion, etc., to be directly grasped by people.

Combining the above types, we can find that feelings can tell us that something exists in the outside world; The mind tells humans what it is; Emotions tell us whether it is satisfying or not; Intuition tells you where this thing and experience came from and where it is going.

If we use the palm of our hand as a metaphor for our brain, our wrist part is similar to the brainstem and cerebellum, which are in charge of our life center and autonomous operating mechanisms, such as breathing and expressions; Our palms are like the midbrain, and if you fold your thumb into it, it's like our amygdala, and behind it is the hippocampus, which is in charge of our memory. I've been forgetting things lately, if the hippocampus is starting to shrink. I'm scared.

The amygdala stores the emotional codes left over from our ancestors and engraved into our DNA, such as anger and fear. They are natural, self-contained programs that come with us when we are born. If you put the other four fingers together and make a fist, remember to put your thumb inside the other four fingers – it's a lot like our cerebral cortex covering the rest of the body, and it's something we're proud of as primates.

But it's not the most magical. If we clench our fists, we will find that where the nails of our four fingers, where our four fingers touch the palms of our hands, they are very much like the location of another place in the brain where higher thinking is generated. This place is called the "prefrontal cortex".

It is the place where we think rationally. Let's give an example to illustrate the relationship between these parts. One day, Zhang San was walking in the forest when a tiger suddenly sprang out.

Zhang San's normal reaction at this time must be to run away. Because his emotional brain was the first to receive a signal and send a warning to the central nervous system: fear!

Fear! Fear! Fight or flight?

The central nervous system reacts immediately in seconds: the tiger will definitely not be able to beat it, run away! So you almost instinctively pull your legs and run.

If Zhang San had run 500 meters and found that the tiger had not caught up, his usual reaction would be to stop and think, what had happened? At this time, his rational part, the prefrontal cortex, began to play a role in the place of the emotional brain, thinking about the behavior just now. Our actions and actions are just momentary things, but we may not realize that our brains have been going back and forth many times.

By understanding the process of emotion occurrence and change, we can practice observing our emotions from time to time, and our ability to manage our emotions will become stronger and stronger.