The emotion wheel is a useful tool. It expands emotional vocabulary. Helps people move beyond broad labels like anger, sadness, fear, or happiness into greater nuance. But emotional language is only part of the story because emotions don't begin with language. They begin as sensation in the body. Before applying language, there is a physical experience. Tightness, heat, heaviness, fluttering, pressure, a lump in the throat, a sinking in the stomach. In this Hot Flash, I explore why the emotio...