Just started reading Social Intelligence, and something occurred to me while thinking about how our facial expressions and emotions mutually dictate one another. Should it not be possible to induce, in a very controlled manner of course, an emotion or feeling from an event and then simply observe our physical in a mirror, and conversely, recreate a posture or facial expression and observe the rising emotion?
It would be necessary, I think, to have to be able to keep thinking totally (or almost, at least) separated from affecting and being affected by the emotions and body, for which the Depression Tool seems essential.
The first benefit I can see from this kind of exercise, is to help, somewhat, with the lack of face-to-face contact when it comes to receiving mirrors in The Swamp, as well for those who, for whatever reason, can't see a good (emphasis) psychotherapist. The way I would see this working is by using G's mental "photographs" from critical moments and of little I's and first of all learning to recreate them without becoming identified, and then with being observant simultaneously.
It could serve as kind of self-test to see how much control one really has over themselves. The next use of course would to obtain data of ourselves to factor in by how much our bodies (and thus ourselves) involuntarily react to certain emotions and vice versa, and lastly, the practical study of emotions and facial expressions themselves in order to be able to read them correctly in others.
Anyone else think this is might be worth trying as an experimental technique?
Special credit to Edgar Allan Poe (Social Intelligence, p.19) for the impressions which inspired this idea :)
It would be necessary, I think, to have to be able to keep thinking totally (or almost, at least) separated from affecting and being affected by the emotions and body, for which the Depression Tool seems essential.
The first benefit I can see from this kind of exercise, is to help, somewhat, with the lack of face-to-face contact when it comes to receiving mirrors in The Swamp, as well for those who, for whatever reason, can't see a good (emphasis) psychotherapist. The way I would see this working is by using G's mental "photographs" from critical moments and of little I's and first of all learning to recreate them without becoming identified, and then with being observant simultaneously.
It could serve as kind of self-test to see how much control one really has over themselves. The next use of course would to obtain data of ourselves to factor in by how much our bodies (and thus ourselves) involuntarily react to certain emotions and vice versa, and lastly, the practical study of emotions and facial expressions themselves in order to be able to read them correctly in others.
Anyone else think this is might be worth trying as an experimental technique?
Special credit to Edgar Allan Poe (Social Intelligence, p.19) for the impressions which inspired this idea :)
