Many, perhaps most, people have experienced a sudden rush of emotion on hearing a particular piece of music; a thrill or chill, a sense of excitement or exhilaration, a feeling of being swept away by it.
Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries.
High arousal emotions include excitement on the positive side or anger on the negative side; while low arousal ones include feeling calm on the positive side or lonely on the negative.
These moments of beauty can happen in different ways. This is the hundredth anniversary of a discovery made by Albert Einstein of which he wrote, 'For a few days I was beside myself with joyous excitement'.