The creative emotions of destiny

Human beings have been walking the earth for between 300,000 and 200,000 years. And it's a long way since vulnerable, as we were in the Paleolithic, we walked the African savannahs with our 150 centimeters of tall and barely 49 to 50 kilograms, barely enough for a sandwich of the great predators of the time such as large cats, hyenas and leopards.

And despite the clear physical handicap, a "mysterious" force helped us win territorial supremacy and evolve to the modern man of today, like you and me who are reading this article.

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Revealing the mystery of the mysterious force

Beyond the natural mysticism of the human being, imagining that a supernatural force has intervened to shape our destiny, without realizing it that we were looking towards the wrong place, it is not outside of us, but inside where we can find the identity of that molding force of Destinations; and I don't mean the power of the Star Wars force but the power of emotions, because we must understand that each emotion is a real chemical that impacts on our

nervous system and modifies it.

The reason is that each emotion emerges as a guiding lighthouse to prepare ourselves for an external or internal challenge, increasing our strength, sharpening our senses or distributing energy in order to survive situations of great stress; in this case I'm talking about adrenaline and cortisol. Phenomena that, manifested through the emotions of anger or fear, prepare us for fight or flight.

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How does this happen?

It is responsible for the HPA axis, or hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis.; This involves a group of glands that are part of the nervous and endocrine systems that are involved in the fight or flight process. I will not go into details, but it is through this route that we obtain cortisol or the stress hormone; which is the "turbo" that will move us so as not to die trying to live.

As you can see, emotions have power, real power. They determine the life or death of an individual, because without them our beloved civilization would not exist. And many will think: "This is the fruit of our intelligence (rather, neocortex)!". But it's not like that. For example, the only reason we manage to survive at birth, since we are born "Premature" compared to other mammals, is for the care of our mothers, and that attachment and love is nothing more than a recharged dose of oxytocin from the moment of gestation.

And it is not only attachment, this hormone helps improve contractions during childbirth and reduce bleeding after it, so this hormone saves our lives in many ways, and then it is transmuted into an emotional alchemical process (as I call it I). We name it affection or love. And it is that a hug, a caress or a kiss makes us feel that well-being of oxytocin and the reward system of our brain is put into action to repeat the experience and; This is how a bond is generated with that defenseless living being, to which we can give a name and dedicate part of our lives and resources to help it grow and be autonomous.

And so we could continue enumerating infinity of emotional dynamics that have a transcendental impact on our existence.

conclusions

Emotions are that force that has guided our destiny for more than 200,000 years, that helped us avoid dangers, that They gave us the strength to fight for our lives and our tribe, they helped us care for and protect our vulnerable hatchlings; and without a doubt they are and will be the shapers of destinies, lives, civilizations and their understanding and management will undoubtedly be finds the key to the resolution of the main social and environmental conflicts that plague our humanity.

I am sure that the world crisis is not one of resources, nor of ideologies... It is a crisis of emotional competences, to live empathy, which would keep us from all violence and self-destructive self-centered behavior. And just as they shaped our destiny in the distant Paleolithic, in the Neolithic I have the hope that They will know how to trace the path that will take us away from the shadow of extinction that the modern era has left us as inheritance. Emotions are the force that creates the destiny of all human beings on earth.