After an era of detachment and outsourcing of our moods, we are now entering an empathy economy, and there is no better guide to this world of emotion than Mary Cappello. In Life Breaks In, she aims to reconnect us to our moods, and offer a timely and poignant reminder of the importance of moods in human history and experience. This is a tour of moods--how they are created, how they are felt and experienced, and how they endure. From mood rooms to the influences art has on our moods to the science of moods and emotion, ...
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After an era of detachment and outsourcing of our moods, we are now entering an empathy economy, and there is no better guide to this world of emotion than Mary Cappello. In Life Breaks In, she aims to reconnect us to our moods, and offer a timely and poignant reminder of the importance of moods in human history and experience. This is a tour of moods--how they are created, how they are felt and experienced, and how they endure. From mood rooms to the influences art has on our moods to the science of moods and emotion, including synethesia, this creative exploration of mind and emotion reminds us of the grounding nature of moods. Cappello finds moods in gong baths, in soundscape ecology, in jazz improv, in paintings of clouds, and in the writings of many authors. This is a book rich with sense and sensibility, which will leave all readers at times entranced, at others moody, and always enlightened.
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