Letter From the Editor BY JACLYN TRUSS
You only think as
good as you feel
have never made a logical decision in
your life.
That may come as a surprise, as we generally
consider ourselves to be rational, objective thinkers
who weigh options, come to logical conclusions
and then make decisions based on facts.
But we don’t.
In fact, every decision you have ever made was
an emotional one.
As much as we may reason out any given
thing, the moment where our decision-making
process turns into decision-made, that thought-
to-action is delivered through your limbic system,
the emotional centre of your brain.
Your ability to make a decision is so closely tied
to your emotions that it was found that people
with damage to the emotional centres of their
brains not only could no longer feel any emotions,
but they also couldn’t make decisions, even simple
ones. They could describe logically and reasonably
what they should be doing but found it incredibly
difficult to actually make the decision, because,
at the very point of choice, logic and reason have
no power to decide anything on their own.
The body-brain dynamic is incredible system
of interconnectivity. You have likely heard of
the term “heart-brain”, as your heart contains
upwards of 40,000 neurons that deliver messages
to the autonomic parts of the brain that are larg