Emotion regulation
Activity occur in body’s hormonal system and in both the autonomic and the somatic parts of the peripheral nervous system during emotional states. The bodily changes that accompany emotions like fear and anger are largely because of the increment of the activity in the sympathetic nervous system. These are the activities which helps the body to deal with threatening situations, and thus these pattern of activity is is called the emergency reaction or flight or fight responses. In contrast to emergency reaction of anger and fear, there exists bodily reaction of calmness, mediataive emotional states, happiness, pleasure and similar responses. These reaction makes up what is called the relaxation response. Experiments have found that, Specific emotion can result in bodily changes that are solely because of the emotional arousal, which can be taken as an evidence to understand that the outward and inward emotional states goes hand in hand.