Do our emotions have a smell? Yes is the simple answer, but perhaps not in the way you might conceptualise smell. Unlike vision, when our olfactory receptors are not being stimulated the brain is simply not processing. So if emotion does have a smell then we must be able to detect it in some way - the brain just can't help itself! Smelling your partners t-shirt soon … [Read more...]
Pets and stroke theory
Eric Berne defined a stroke as one unit of recognition. In order to understand this definition fully I like to ask the question "How do you know you exist?" To help you along with this question, just imagine for a moment that you were completely invisible. You exist but nobody can hear, see, or feel you. How long do you think it would take before you changed your view about … [Read more...]