Emotions: 5 Emotional Ingredients in the Sauce of Life

Flavors and emotions go beyond words. Perhaps that's why we can relate them.

It is a fairly simple task for any self-respecting person to try to establish an analogy between the emotions or feelings that we may experience in our lives and the emotions we experience in our lives. an analogy between the emotions or feelings that we can experience throughout our lives and the different flavors that we taste, coming from the mixture of foods that we eat.We can also try to establish an analogy between the emotions or feelings that we may experience throughout our lives and the different flavors we taste, coming from the mixture of foods that make up our diet.

That pleasure we experience when tasting an excellent meal, which runs through our 5 senses and immerses us in a kind of state of fullness and harmony, due in part to the skill of a great chef to combine and cook the food, can be similar to the state of abstraction underlying the contemplation of a beautiful natural landscape or the first days of a love that seemed impossible, for example.

The taste of emotions

Life can also evoke certain flavors at certain times, as has been suggested in countless literary works, songs or movies, which are part of the collective imagination as emotional synesthesia. Thus, we could find the following associations among others:

1. Sweet

Following popular philosophy, we understand that sweet moments are those associated with moments of success, whether personal, professional or similar. We understand that a person is going through a sweet moment when things are going as expected or even better. We could then compare this taste with emotions such as joy or sentimental states such as euphoria, satisfaction, love, etc., etc.etc.

2. Salty

To say that a person is salty (or 'salá' as the Andalusians would say) or that he or she is salty, fundamentally has to do with the ability that person has to overcome his or her fear of making a fool of him or herself or of what others will say. That is to say, to be oriented towards having fun in everyday situations or, in short, to enjoy certain events, knowing how to add a pinch of salt to them.

3. Bitter

When we imagine a bitter person, we usually imagine a person who is angry with the world, whiny or grumpy, who has no difficulty expressing his anger left and right. We can also think of sad or melancholic people who find it difficult to enjoy their lives to enjoy their lives, regardless of whether or not there are objective factors that justify it.

4. Spicy

To say that a situation has become spicy or that this or that person is "spicy", usually evokes a certain state of arousal, mainly of a sexual nature, related to emotional tension of a pleasurable nature, in most cases, caused by aIn the majority of cases, aroused by a "racy" situation. It is true that it cannot be said that everyone enjoys spicy food, just as there are people who, either due to inexperience, personal modesty or various additional factors, find it difficult to experience this exciting and pleasurable sensation.

5. Sour

In the case of sour taste, I can't help but think of a type of humor without filters, in the purest Hugh Laurie style -star of the series "House"-, in which one expresses one's own feelings without excessive consideration for the feelings of others..

It also perfectly reflects the states of pressure to which certain people with high levels of self-demandingness are subjected, who experience anxiety, stress or various emotional tensions, derived from obsessive styles of thinking in a pessimistic premonitory format, also known as worries.

Curiously, these emotional states are associated with digestive disorders, mainly gastritis, heartburn and other problems of a psychosomatic nature.

Emotional regulation is like making a recipe

Learning to manage our emotions, knowing how to interpret the situations and ups and downs that life has in store for us is an art, an art that can be learned, in the same way that a magnificent chef combines the ingredients to enrich his sauces, we can learn how to favor certain interpretations of our reality, so that our vital tastingso that our vital tasting will be fuller. Bon appetit!