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Today you'll learn about how the body can physically feel emotions, how axolotels can regenerate

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So a couple of months ago, a friend had an interesting experience where she went to a Reiki healer.

It's a kind of energy healing that hones in on how different emotions present themselves physically in the body.

That sounds pretty abstract to me. Did she find it worked?

Well, she said she definitely felt relaxed after,

but that could have also been a symptom of lying down in silence

for an hour.

Anyway, I was pretty interested in how

this very old idea about mind-body connection,

so I went down a bit of a rabbit hole to see whether or not

there's some modern science to back up the idea that you can physically feel those emotions in your body.

And I actually found some kind of interesting results. I do really like it when science has an

explanation for older healing methods. Tell me about what you found. So there's been some

recent research into what's called body mapping. Body mapping is basically figuring out where certain emotions are felt physically in the body.

According to the scientists, there are 13 emotions related to specific body parts.

The mapping process itself kind of works like a heat map where the

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