More that speak to this
Gut · the base
Catch the emotion at birth
If you're only catching, say, that emotion of sadness when it gets to the chest, when it's a seven out of ten, you've missed the first one through six stages of it.
What Scott says
If you're only catching, say, that emotion of sadness when it gets to the chest, when it's a seven out of ten, you've missed the first one through six stages of it or levels of it, and then it has such a power and it seems so new that it's very difficult to regulate that emotion. How can I be emotionally regulated, or how can I regulate my nervous system? And so, if you can learn to rest your awareness and view the world from the spot in your lower abdomen, so in front of the spine, below the belly button, then as emotions arise, they arise out of the lower abdomen and up into the chest and into the head.
So, what will happen is you will be aware of and catch the of emotions early on in their life cycle. And so, when you are able to see the development of anger or sadness as it is being born, as it is being created, and then building, it is much easier to regulate that emotion because you're tracking the life and the intensity of that emotion through its stages of development, and then it regulates on its own. If you're only catching, say, that emotion of sadness when it gets to the chest, when it's a seven out of ten, you've missed the first one through six stages of it or levels of it, and then it has such a power and it seems so new that it's very difficult to regulate that emotion.