Emotions Are Lightning, Feelings Are the Weather - Brain Bee Ideas – SBNeC Escola – SfN 2025 Kids
Emotions Are Lightning, Feelings Are the Weather - Brain Bee Ideas – SBNeC Escola – SfN 2025 Kids
Discover how your energy shapes everything inside and out
Brain Bee Ideas – SBNeC Escola – SfN 2025 Kids
Your body has a superpower:
It feels, reacts, stores, creates.
When you get scared, laugh, fall in love, or feel anger,
you’re experiencing a fast bioelectrical event.
That’s what we call emotions — quick electric bursts that change everything in seconds.
But when you feel down for days, unmotivated for weeks, or passionate for months,
you’re experiencing something deeper and slower.
Those are feelings — stable metabolic processes that shape your way of being.
Emotions: Fast Sparks That Help You Act
Emotions are like lightning bolts — quick, intense, and short-lived.
They come from neural circuits and activate your whole body fast.
Their job is to prepare you for action: escape, react, laugh, explore.
They change your posture, heartbeat, and even facial expression.
They are powerful tools.
Training your body and mind to notice and modulate emotions is a real-life skill.
Feelings: Inner Climates That Shape Who You Are
Feelings are like your body’s climate system.
They’re slow metabolic processes, involving your nervous system, breathing, digestion, and posture.
They form your Tensional Selves — the way your body reacts based on your past experiences.
Feeling is how your body processes life — deeply and slowly.
Each feeling carries a message about how you relate to the world.
Zone 2: Where Emotions and Feelings Meet Awareness
When you're in Zone 2, your body finds balance:
Emotions are noticed but don’t take over
Feelings are understood without trapping you
Your mind enters fruition — pleasure without pressure
You activate metacognition — thinking about your thoughts, without overthinking
It’s like switching your brain into “creative mode”:
You learn better, breathe better, live better.
REM: Your Brain’s Night Lab
During sleep — especially in REM tonic and phasic phases —
you naturally reach your deepest Zone 2 state:
Your brain’s oxygen saturation (SpO₂) stays between 92% and 94%
The growth system (mTOR) turns off
Emotions and feelings are reprocessed
Body tensions get released
New insights and memories are born in dreams
Good sleep isn’t a luxury. It’s neurometabolic evolution.
Fruition: Learning with Pleasure
Yes, you can study, reflect, and grow without stress.
That’s fruition — when your body and mind cooperate, not compete.
In this state:
Focus comes naturally
Ideas flow freely
Your mind relaxes without losing its power
Fruition isn’t something you force — it’s something you allow.
Tips from the Avatars:
Brainlly sparks ideas with ease
Iam blends emotion with presence
Olmeca adds memory and cultural identity
Yagé seeks meaning and boldness
Math Hep organizes your mental energy
For Reflection:
Are you living like everything is urgent?
Or have you started trusting your body’s real timing to feel, think, and change?
