When emotions flow naturally, they do not overwhelm consciousness; they appear opposed to reason only after being dammed up. The conscious mind guides experience through beliefs, but the actual mechanism is completed automatically by the inner self.

情绪自然流动时不会淹没意识，被壅塞后才显得与理智对立；意识心通过信念引导体验，但实际机制由内在自动完成。

Concept emotions · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Adjudicating experiment

Approximately 360 participants are randomly assigned to acceptance, expressive suppression, cognitive reappraisal, or natural viewing conditions, and undergo low- and high-intensity emotional induction. Measures include subjective loss of control, skin conductance, heart rate, and subsequent working memory. A 4-week training phase is followed by a 3-month follow-up. The pre-registered test is the interaction between strategy and stimulus intensity, with prior suppression habits also recorded. The key counterexample is whether individuals who fully accept emotions and have no prior suppression still show loss of control or cognitive impairment under high-intensity stimuli.