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Our affects are divided into actions and passions.
Our affects themselves can be understood in this way, which further diminishes their power over us.
Our affects—our love, anger, hate, envy, pride, jealousy, etc.—"follow from the same necessity and force of nature as the other singular things".
Spinoza, admittedly, allowed that we may be adequate causes of some of our affects, and took all our emotions to involve judgments.
When our emotional activations are expressed, both through words and non-verbal facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, posture, if they are seen by someone who is attuned to our affects, they'll empathize and 'mirror back' the emotions by reflecting back similar expressions (note Peter Fonagy's research in 'Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self').
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