The bodily signature of emotion

The bodily signature of emotion is that each feeling has a physical counterpart of its own in the body. Fear may be felt as a knot in the throat, anger as a heat in the chest; each emotion leaves a trace in the body. Recognizing this signature lets a person sense what they feel before thinking about it. Emotions often appear in the body before they are named. Listening to the body is a way of noticing an emotion early and directly.