Emotion (glossary entry)

Within my systems of awareness and reality, emotion is the level above physical and below mental.

Acting

Actors have a special ability to summon any emotional state, together with its physiological manifestations, effortlessly and at a moment's notice.

In their training actors notice that there are some states normally thought of as "emotional", which cannot be summoned as easily.

The five major "actable" emotions are:

• mad : anger, rage, etc.

• sad : grief

• glad : joy, happy lightness, euphoria

• afraid

• ashamed

In addition to these are several less common states that are also able to be summoned using the same techniques (e.g. those of Stanislavski):

• physiological sexual arousal (most notably the emotional state of orgasm)

• calmness (turning other emotions off at will even those that did not originate voluntarily, also called using the observer mind)

• contempt or "attitude" (commonly exhibited by models on the runway in a fashion show)

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