Creating your own Portals

  Now that you know how the feeling-state Portals operate, it's time to explore your own.

We use Brainstorming, Curiosity, Awe, Gratitude, Laughter, and the Hero's Journey as examples to explain the process, because everyone has had experience with them.

But everyone has unique emotional circuits that are different from everyone else's. And our claim is that finding out how do invoke these regularly contributes to fundamental well-being, or long term happiness.

  What insight, inspiration, thought construct, or emotion do you embody that no one else has?  That's a good place to start.  It's unlikely that NO ONE shares this feeling-state with you; but thanks to social media, you will be able to find kindred spirits in other lands, perhaps places you would never think of searching.

It's good to start with portals whose entry point is an emotion. You can begin with the Google-Berkeley Art-Emotion chart.  It links well-known emotions with art works, and allows you to find 'hybrid' or hidden feelings that most don't know, by exploring the less-known spaces and interstices between the emotions.  Click on a dot to discover the link between art and emotion.  See https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/art-emotions-map/

Please comment when you find a sentiment that you've always known was there, but could never describe.