What Makes Us Human. How to Understand and Accept Your Emotions

The author invites you on a journey through our inner world and encourages you to get to know your own feelings. If we manage to accept them as they are, instead of suppressing or judging them, we’ll feel better.

Earlier it was believed that a person’s unique feature is highly developed intelligence. However, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, it turned out that what is truly unique about us is our ability to feel. Joy, rage, shame, compassion—all this range of experiences makes us human. And to understand what drives us at any given moment, we need to get acquainted with our feelings: how events affect emotions, and how those emotions affect bodily sensations, thoughts, and actions.

With this book, which brings together the results of new research on how the human brain works, you’ll learn to treat your own feelings—and other people’s—with care; you’ll be able to understand yourself and others better, and experience more pleasure from life.