Emotional state

Introduction
Emotional expression is essential to communication between sentient animals. The main function is to establish personal boundaries and help to define working groups. The major axis may be defined as sociable-neutral-unsociable. Cohesive social bonding tends occur between people who show they are happy with each other while enduring repulsion is cause by mutual anger. Emotional expression typically changes many times during the course of a day or week and is often subtle. Longer term deviations from a state within the normal range may be deemed symptomatic of illness.

Emotional state is greatly affected by physiological state. In a state of deep relaxation, emotional expression is neutral. Well balanced, sociable persons exhibit positive emotions during increased physiological activity reflected by raised oxygen consumption (VO2), heart rate and blood pressure. Unbalanced persons are more likely to experience negative emotions such as anger when these parameters are raised.

In general NLP and NAC are very powerful (therefore potentially dangerous) ways to consciously manipulate emotional states. This offers a great degree of freedom, but the risk is becoming trapped into the ego, so use it with care.

Optimism
Optimism boosts the immune system http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/03/23/optimism.boosts.immune.system

Lonliness
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100907171640.htm

Day Dreaming
People spend 'half their waking hours daydreaming

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11741350

Dreaming
People work on difficult problems in their sleep as they dream

To Dream, Perchance to Create

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201011/dream-perchance-create

As we sleep, speedy brain waves boost our ability to learn http://www.kurzweilai.net/as-we-sleep-speedy-brain-waves-boost-our-ability-to-learn

Decision making
Do 'Traffic Lights' in the Brain Direct Our Actions? Delayed Inhibition Between Neurons Identified as Possible Basis for Decision Making http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101125082756.htm

Sex and the emotional mind
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/23/brizendine.male.brain/index.html?hpt=C2

Finding happiness
Try to explode the definition of "happiness" into more concrete and achievable things.

Get enough sleep and have a good poo after breakfast http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/science-proves-morning-abolution-is-happiness-solution?from=news.com.au

Freeing yourself of all worry
A good book about worry is "Dale Carnegies' how to stop worrying and start living". If you're into ancient philosophy, read Democritus or Epicurus.

Reducing the severity of OCD
From the book the brain that changes itself. In regards to neuroplasticity you can stop obsessive behaviors by doing something else instead. I will add more detail about this.

Learning how to positively deal with anger
http://www.achieving-life-abundance.com/anger-release.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101101151730.htm

Becoming more generous
Social Scientists Build Case for 'Survival of the Kindest' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208155309.htm

Health benefits of laughter
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080407114617.htm

Biotranslation
Norman Cousins was a journalist and an editor of the Saturday Review. He was also a pioneer in the idea that beliefs, thoughts and emotions have biological effects (“biotranslation”). His view about the body’s unrecognized ability to heal itself was captured in his 1979 book, “Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient).”

Helping put an end to depression
Depression is largely inflammation.

Building intimacy
There are a lot of people in the world. Many of them we would find attractive and many would even find us attractive to them. The trouble of course comes with trying to build intimacy and the scarcity of intimacy amongst humans.

One aspect rejuvepedia may tackle in its ever expanding scope is building intimacy amomgst human beings (possibly from a neuroscience perspective) and how intimacy could be made more abundant.

I don't know if the following link is any good but it's a start:

http://thinksimplenow.com/relationships/how-to-build-intimacy-in-any-relationship/

Fights in relationships
Exploring How Partners Perceive Each Other’s Emotion During a Relationship Fight http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101216161514.htm

Improving social status
Brain Dopamine Receptor Density Correlates With Social Status http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100203084254.htm

Perspective / Reprogramming Inner Dialogue
[The 8 Basic Winner and Loser scripts] Sources: RAW and John Lily