How emotions orbit the Human Brain — Analogy with Bohr’s Atomic Quantized Shell Model — The never ending battle …..Heart Vs Mind
Bohr’s Atomic Model:
Way back in 1913, Bohr proposed his quantized shell model of the atom to explain how electrons can have stable orbits around the nucleus. These electrons move in orbits of fixed size and energy. The energy of an electron depends on the size of the orbit and is lower for smaller orbits. Radiation can occur only when the electron jumps from one orbit to another. The atom will be completely stable in the state with the smallest orbit, since there is no orbit of lower energy into which the electron can jump.
Hypothetical Analogy — “Bohr’s Atomic Model” with “Emotions Orbiting the Human Mind”:
Assume a hypothetical analogy, if we replace Nucleus of the Atom by Human Mind and the revolving electrons by the emotions displayed to the external environment, in response to the situations confronted. The model will simulate ,with each emotion to revolve in different orbits at a variable but stable distance form the Nucleus (The Human Mind).
In quadratic equations, there could be more than one solution to the single problem, similarly, there can be “N” (where N could be infinity too, at times) different responses to a single situation, i.e. a Human Mind may/will/could respond differently against the same situation confronted at two different periods.
Les us understand the same in Lehman by the following example:
Situation 1: A person had a terrible day at office, and have received a scolding from his Boss, and as he reached home, his wife demanded to out for a family dinner, the spontaneous response by the person, would be the emotion of Anger in this case.
Situation 2: The same person on some other day had a quiet and relaxed day at the office and he has been even praised by his Boss, and again as he reached home, his wife demanded to go out for a family dinner, in this case, the spontaneous response by the person, would be the emotion of Accordance.
The situation was same on both the occasions i.e. to go out for a family dinner, but the responses were the antonym of each other, and the same were associated with the past events of the day.
Now coming back to the assumed hypothetical analogy, in Situation 1 the emotion of Anger , was in the outermost orbit and hence was exhibited with great energy (as Mr. Bohr has already convinced the Scholars, that the energies of the electrons are directly proportional to their distances from the Nucleus), while the emotion of Accordance was displayed with more energy in Situation 2 for the same reason.
In an ideal scenario, the past and the present events must be mutually independent and there should not be any influence of the former on the latter. Then why did this happen? The primary reason may be because our Mind (The Nucleus), placed the emotion of Anger and Accordance, in the outer most orbit with great energy and amplitude in Situation 1 and Situation 2 respectively.
Heart Vs Mind, the perpetual battle:
Again, why did the mind did that? Rather, it should have been a neutral judge of the events and should have responded accordingly , then why it failed in doing so? Why did the Heart didn’t stop the Mind? Or is it the Heart, who took over the Mind in placing the emotion of Anger and Accordance in the outermost orbit in Situation 1 and Situation 2 respectively, abstaining the Mind to react judiciously.
A kid on the other hand, who is scolded by his mother in the morning and given cakes in the evening will happily acknowledge his mother’s gesture and would have subsequently exhibited the emotion of Gratitude towards his mother, no matter what has happened in the morning, just because his Mind have driven the Heart.
As we grow up, our Heart starts driving the Mind, adversely affecting our decisions to be rational, which ideally should not happen in the context of the pace of life.
We all would have agreed to the fact that “A healthy Mind lives in the healthy body “, but what more prominently required than a healthy Mind, is the Stable Mind, who is capable enough to arrest and govern the inclined emotions of the Heart.
The pictorial portrait of the states of mind simulated to Bohr’s Atomic Shell Model as per the above two situations, are illustrated as under:
Conclusion……. The Bottom Line:
Albeit, it is a herculean task for the mind to attain the stable state, or the state of equilibrium, with minimum or no entropy. However, one could groom the mind to act rationally, through proven meditation, yoga and other physiological therapies. Post attainment of the state of stability, the negative emotions of Anger, Hate, Fear, Sadness, etc. would acquire the inner orbits of the Mind/Nucleus (with low intensity, energy and amplitude) and more importantly the positive emotions of Love, Accordance, Forgiveness, Gratitude, etc. would acquire the outermost orbit and will be displayed more often to the external world.
Mind seldom makes mistakes but yes, there are situations where Mind fails to arrive at a meaningful or practical conclusions. Both Heart and Mind are equally important, and hence instead of placing yourself in the corridor of uncertainty, whether to listen to the Heart or the Mind, a better solution would be, to establish amity between the two and make them work cohesively in arriving at the decisions …… i.e. using the logic of Mind and the emotions of Heart, simultaneously.
