Emotion Is Energy In Motion, Feeling Is What We Think Of The Direction
The difference between emotion and feeling seems to have more than a few ways of being defined. I don't whose method of defining these differences is most accurate but if you are in touch with your own emotions and feelings you already know the difference between the two. You just need to refine it.
Other than knowing it is tied directly to our nervous system, I don't know much about how we generate our emotions. The root word comes from the Latin mot which means to move. I do know that our emotions power us to move, forcefully. I don't know how much of what we experience emotionally is under our control but I do know that what we feel is.
When we experience an emotion we seemingly instantaneously apply a feeling to the emotion. What the body physically experiences in the presence of fear, anger, excitement, and even love to a degree is the same. But it is the label applied to the sensation that determines whether it is experienced as fear, anger, excitement or love. And this labeling is something that is learned.
Our emotional concepts and the feelings we learn to apply to them are some of the first things we learn because it is how we connect to and communicate with our family. Being some of the oldest things we've learned they feel inherit. They're not.
We can change the feelings we apply to emotions we experience and we do this by creating space between the stimulus and the response. We do this by developing a more wider range of vocabulary we can use to define our feelings. We accomplish this by deciding we want to do it.
There is a stigma that exists with the word emotional. Calling someone emotional tends to have negative connotations but the reality is we are all emotional. We would not move to take any action if we weren't. Many of us just have to become more productive with the feelings we decide to apply to our emotions so they can power us into the direction of our choosing in our lives.
Other than knowing it is tied directly to our nervous system, I don't know much about how we generate our emotions. The root word comes from the Latin mot which means to move. I do know that our emotions power us to move, forcefully. I don't know how much of what we experience emotionally is under our control but I do know that what we feel is.
When we experience an emotion we seemingly instantaneously apply a feeling to the emotion. What the body physically experiences in the presence of fear, anger, excitement, and even love to a degree is the same. But it is the label applied to the sensation that determines whether it is experienced as fear, anger, excitement or love. And this labeling is something that is learned.
Our emotional concepts and the feelings we learn to apply to them are some of the first things we learn because it is how we connect to and communicate with our family. Being some of the oldest things we've learned they feel inherit. They're not.
We can change the feelings we apply to emotions we experience and we do this by creating space between the stimulus and the response. We do this by developing a more wider range of vocabulary we can use to define our feelings. We accomplish this by deciding we want to do it.
There is a stigma that exists with the word emotional. Calling someone emotional tends to have negative connotations but the reality is we are all emotional. We would not move to take any action if we weren't. Many of us just have to become more productive with the feelings we decide to apply to our emotions so they can power us into the direction of our choosing in our lives.
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