Talk:Nerve Manipulation/@comment-4632123-20121019143657/@comment-16701450-20140614062134

I'll try and expain it in the most non-confusing way possible. The nervous system is the body's primary communications network. The nerves, somewhat like powerlines, carry electrical signals or messages within and between all the parts of the human--and other species that contain nervous systems--body.

There are different branches of the nervous system, e.g/ the sensory branch of the central nervous system receives and transmits information from the outside world through the five senses; sound, sight, smell, taste, and touch, so we can perceive the physical world around us whilst the motor branch of the nervous system carries internal signals from the brain to the body, making it possible to walk, talk etc.

Emotions, however, are under the autonomic branch of the nervous system, which is non-conscious and/or involuntary, meaning we have no apparent control over its functions. In other words, the autonomic branch of the nervous system operates at a subconscious level and does stuff like controlling the functions of internal organs etc.

Emotions are the language of the subconscious mind, so to speak, and our body's subconsciously mimic our unconscious thought patterns. Different types of emotions send different messages through the nervous system to the heart, the brain, and the body. An intense emotions, let's use fear for an example, is known to overtax the autonomous nervous system with stress signals, causing its neural networks to jam. Eventually, a chronic build-up of these stress signals leads to autonomic nervous system imbalance; a state of chaos within the autonomic nervous system which results in the stress response getting stuck, which ultimately leads to a jittery, on-edge kind of emotion.

That's pretty much a shortened explanation. Of course, I'm no expert on the nervous system and its functions, so I could be wrong. I just happen to know a little bit about it. I hope I haven't said anything confusing and apologise if I've made any spelling mistakes.