[ExI] permanent changes

[William Flynn Wallace]

Think of your mood/emotion regulation (mood being a slight emotion - a
slight feeling being a micromood) as like a thermostat that keeps you from
getting too far either way.  Sometimes it loses control and we go out of
control in a rage or a rape.  But it will return to its set place if
nothing is happening to create a mood or emotion.

There are statistics and then there are statistics.  Who imagined that the
number of muscles involved had anything to do with anything?

In a duh your jaw would be hanging down and you would truly look like the
village idiot.

As an aside:  people are very poor at knowing how tense they are.  Measure
the tenseness in the neck muscles and ask the person how tense they are:
poor correlation.  Usually more tense than they report.  (for tenseness try
the Jacobson relaxation technique - works well for stress and for going to
sleep if you have difficulty with that).

No charge for the advice.   bill w


On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 1:46 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…FAking pleasantness and becoming pleasant?  ..and if you cease your
> 'faking' you will regress to your mean, which is grumpy.  …bill w
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> Easy solution: don’t regress to the mean.  Regress only to the nice.  Then
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> Oh wait, you meant mean the statistical sense.  OK disregard all.
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> It does make one wonder: you have heard that old (and probably false)
> notion that it takes 17 facial muscles to smile and 31 to frown (or some
> such nonsense) well how does they figure?  Whoever started that silly
> notion, what did they do to get those numbers?  And if they wants to go
> that route, how many muscles does it take to make the duh face?  NONE!
> Relax every facial muscle, try it, right now, get a mirror, relax
> everything.  Your spouse will look at you and say “Ok what’s this about,
> why are we making duh faces at ourselves in the mirror?”  I really don’t
> consider that a good reason to go around looking like that, arguing that it
> conserves energy.  You know it would be: Hey, spike, what’s with you?  Me:
> Nothing, its my resting duh face.
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> Nope.  Not buyin it, me lad.
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