Emotion makes us human, but we often misunderstand it because we fail to consider a critical fact about an unconscious system that generates it. The limbic system forms connections through emotion to keep our internal balance in check, but it cannot speak a word.

The communication language of an early developed system that began through the mother-fetus limbic connectivity long before higher cognitive functions emerged cannot operate at a conscious level and use words. Thoughts and words complicate things, leading us to ignore emotional feedback and leaving connection problems unsolved.

This system may only use loose and transient signals to demonstrate our security status, like “safe” and “unsafe,” along with four directions, such as “back,” “forward,” “in,” and “out” if the situation is unsafe. So, we can rapidly change our position without needing a word.

The five primary emotions—Fear, Anger, Sadness, Anxiety, and Joy— represent one of these states. They are commands for expansion, movement, or immobility that connect us to others, the environment, and ourselves.