Emotion is created by Motion. Everything that we feel is the result of how we use our bodies. Even the most minute changes in our facial expressions or our gestures will shift the way that we're feeling in any moment, and therefore the way we evaluate our lives - the way we think and the way we act.
Every emotion you ever feel has specific physiology linked to it : posture, breathing, patterns of movement, facial expressions. For depression, these are certainly obvious. Physical attributes of depression, where your eyes are focused, and how you hold yourself and so forth.
Once you learn how you use your body when in certain emotional states, you can return to those states, or avoid them, simply by changing your physiology. The challenge is that most of us limit ourselves to just a few habitual patterns of physiology. We assume them automatically, not realizing how great a role they play in shaping our behaviour from moment to moment.
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