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Studies show that sleep deprivation increases activity in the amygdala — the brain’s emotional alarm system — while redu...
11/18/2025

Studies show that sleep deprivation increases activity in the amygdala — the brain’s emotional alarm system — while reducing regulation from the prefrontal cortex.
That’s why, at 3:47 AM, your brain isn’t problem-solving; it’s replaying every awkward thing you’ve ever done.
National Institutes of Health, 2021

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11/17/2025

Me trying to cancel a subscription that required a blood oath and three security riddles.
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Evidence-Based ResearchEvery time we face unnecessary obstacles (like automated phone systems, endless passwords, confus...
11/17/2025

Evidence-Based Research
Every time we face unnecessary obstacles (like automated phone systems, endless passwords, confusing menus), our nervous system treats them like a threat. Researchers in “interruption science” show that frequent task disruptions lead to elevated stress, reduced self-regulation, and emotional fatigue.
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Another study found that confusing or repetitive customer-service loops directly increase feelings of frustration, anger, and helplessness.
Mindful

In short: modern convenience can come with a hidden cost — your brain and body don’t always see it as “just annoying,” they see it as a challenge.

May this series help you to embrace all part of who you are. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.💖www....
11/17/2025

May this series help you to embrace all part of who you are. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.💖

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Welcome to The Human Condition: A Photo Series No One Asked For.Brought to you by Baru Wellness, where emotional awarene...
11/16/2025

Welcome to The Human Condition: A Photo Series No One Asked For.
Brought to you by Baru Wellness, where emotional awareness meets bad lighting, questionable angles, and radical self-acceptance.

Because healing isn’t always graceful, and neither are we.
This week, we celebrate every face, every phase, and every “I can’t believe I’m posting this” moment.

Specimen 017: The Emotion That Refused to EvolveIt still panics at shadows that no longer exist.Still flinches at sounds...
11/16/2025

Specimen 017: The Emotion That Refused to Evolve

It still panics at shadows that no longer exist.
Still flinches at sounds no one else hears.
Thousands of years later, it hasn’t learned the difference between survival and stress.

We tried to reason with it.
It hissed.

Filed under: Primal Affect Studies, Vol. II
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities



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From the Museum Archives: Primal Affect Research DivisionFear is among the oldest emotional systems in the brain — roote...
11/16/2025

From the Museum Archives: Primal Affect Research Division
Fear is among the oldest emotional systems in the brain — rooted in the amygdala and refined through millennia of survival selection.
Studies in evolutionary psychology (Öhman, 2008; LeDoux, 1998) confirm that the circuitry detecting threat is faster than conscious thought and largely unaltered by modern context.
This explains why the same system that once saved us from predators now reacts to inboxes, notifications, and unmet expectations.
It still believes the rustle in the bushes means danger.
The predator evolved. The panic stayed.

Filed under: Primal Affect Studies, Vol. II
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities

Specimen 015: The Consensus of MindsIt began as connection.Then it became agreement.Then it became obedience.Each mind t...
11/15/2025

Specimen 015: The Consensus of Minds

It began as connection.
Then it became agreement.
Then it became obedience.

Each mind tried to think on its own until the colors started bleeding together.
Now they move as one.
No one remembers who had the first idea.

Filed under: Collective Cognition Experiments, Vol. V
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities

From the Museum Archives: Collective Cognition ExperimentsIn 1951, Asch demonstrated that perception bends under social ...
11/15/2025

From the Museum Archives: Collective Cognition Experiments
In 1951, Asch demonstrated that perception bends under social pressure — individuals conform to visible consensus even when it contradicts reality.
Milgram (1963) confirmed obedience persists despite moral conflict.
Festinger (1957) later identified cognitive dissonance as the glue that holds the illusion together.

The data suggest cognition is rarely independent; thought is contagious, and agreement functions like infection.
The more unified the group, the less visible the distortion.
We call it collective hallucination.

Filed under: Social Synchrony Research, Vol. II
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities

“The Law of Reverse Emotion”In this world, joy sinks.Tears rise.The candle burns from the wax up.They say the painter wo...
11/14/2025

“The Law of Reverse Emotion”

In this world, joy sinks.
Tears rise.
The candle burns from the wax up.

They say the painter worked entirely in reverse — mixing darkness first, then carving light out of it.
No one knows if the inversion was intentional or contagious.

Filed under: Anomalous Affect Studies, Vol. IX
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities

From the Museum Archives: Emotional Inversion Research DivisionNeuroception theory (Porges, 1995) explains how the body ...
11/14/2025

From the Museum Archives: Emotional Inversion Research Division
Neuroception theory (Porges, 1995) explains how the body detects safety and threat beneath awareness.
In individuals with chronic hypervigilance, the system misfires — interpreting calm as danger and activation as safety.
Solomon and Corbit’s Opponent-Process Model (1974) supports this inversion: emotional systems overcorrect, linking relief to fear and peace to loss.
Clinically, it appears as restlessness in stability and panic during ease — the body remembering what the mind forgets.

Filed under: Emotional Inversion Research, Vol. IX
Attribution: Baru Wellness, Museum of Emotional Oddities



The Emotional Truth They called it passion.They called it drive.They didn’t notice it was eating them alive.When the dre...
11/13/2025

The Emotional Truth

They called it passion.
They called it drive.
They didn’t notice it was eating them alive.
When the dream finished its meal, it asked for more.

Specimen 006: The Dream That Ate Its Dreamer
Recovered from the ruins of overachievement.

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