10/27/2025
Your emotions have a lot to say… if you'll only listen. What they are trying to tell you is important, and your body holds the clues. People with a high degree of emotional intelligence are skilled at reading their emotions within their bodies.
Lauri Nummenmaa and his colleagues mapped how emotions were felt in the bodies of over 700 subjects. This image is a visual depiction of where various emotions were located and what intensity they were felt with.
What’s really interesting is the patterns they found were consistent across cultures, languages, and even different ways of triggering the experienced emotions.
✅ Red and yellow areas show increased activation in the body, such as the rush of energy in anger or joy.
✅ Blue and black areas show decreased activity, like the numbness and heaviness often felt in sadness or depression.
💚 Emotional intelligence is driven by your awareness of your feelings. The better you understand what you are feeling and why you are feeling it, the more equipped you are to do something powerful and productive with that feeling.
