15. Amygdala and Emotional Affect Spectrum Range [EARS]

Amygdala and Emotional Affect Spectrum Range [EARS]

An area for further scientific investigation would be to study the 3 Genetic Personality Types (Green, Blue, Orange) with respect to size and shape of the amygdala. It is hypothesized that Orange GPT has the smallest shaped amygdala and Blue GPT has the largest shaped amygdala.

(On a sidenote, plant cells and human cells have functioning parts within them each carrying out specific functional jobs referred to as organelles: (mitochondria, nucleus, ribosome and vacuole) to name a few. I like this term "organelle."

I view aspects of the brain similar to organelles in that they too carry out specific functional jobs. From a fractal perspective, in my mind the brain functions like a larger version of a cell. So, for purposes throughout this blog, I will collectively refer to parts of the brain as organelles. I find it more auditorily pleasurable than "sections" or "parts" of the brain).

The amygdala is located in the brain and is typically about the size and shape of an almond. The amygdala is one of the primary organelles of the brain responsible for regulating Emotional Affect Range Spectrum [EARS]. The other primary organelles of the brain responsible for emotional affect regulation are the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.

Livin4d believes the amygdala is important to mention as it is a malleable organelle. If a child or adult is exhibiting low emotional response or affect, various external measures can be taken in order to increase the size of the amygdala and consequently broaden the Emotional Affect Range Spectrum [EARS].

Two external or environmental variables that can be adjusted for resulting in consequent change of amygdala shape include: 1. Eye contact, 2. Massage, touch.

The more eye contact a person has with other people, the larger the amygdala grows in volume and size. Similarly, the more massage or touch an individual gets from another, the larger the amygdala gets in volume and size.

Change of volume and size of the amygdala also applies in the reverse direction. The less eye contact a person makes with other people, the smaller the amygdala gets in size and volume. The less massage or touch an individual gets from another, the smaller the amygdala gets as well.

Therefore, depending upon the Emotional Affect Range Spectrum [EARS] (of which there are 3 ranges dependent on GPT color) of an individual, it may be beneficial to increase or decrease these 2 external variables to alter EARS in one direction or another.

If a person cries all the time and/or feels a lot (typically a GPT Blue) that individual might benefit to slightly tone down his/her emotional regulation. If a person hardly cries at all and feels little, that individual might benefit to slightly tune up his/her emotional regulation (typically a GPT Orange).

One of the many reasons why it is important to know your baseline personality type is so that you have a baseline guage to compare yourself to and in which to compare other people. When I write the word "compare," I do not mean to compare one to the other, I mean to compare self to self and to compare other to other.

The amazing thing about the human brain is that while we have basic GPT types, at the same time, the brain is malleable and modifyable. We are not born with Pompeii  Brains!! Yay to evolving individual non-stagnant life!!