About Emotion and Feelings

Emotion is a strong sensation of any kind that you feel about somebody or something. Feeling is state of mind. It either pleases or disturbs you.

Anxiety, doubt, apathy, anger and feeling worthless are among the negative states in the list of human emotions.

Joy, love and feeling courageous are some of the beneficial state of mind.

You go in and out of these states, either for a brief period or prolonged over a certain amount of time. You experience mood swings on a daily basis.

Your sensation does not just happen. It originates from thoughts, mental images and self talks. What you see, hear or feel in the inside causes your feelings. What is happening outside is only a trigger.

You may have witnessed an event or situation that happened in your past and it had impacted you. You then associate that impression onto any new situation that provides the trigger. Your sentiment overwhelms your rationality.

This is why you can get angry even over a small issue. You have stepped back into memories of your old hurts or humiliation.

The feeling of disappointment for example, is destructive and if allowed to linger will lead you to lose your sense of self worth. Then the feeling of loneliness will seep in.

Identify your mood as it happens. Pay attention and monitor it. Once you are aware, you can choose to get out or to stay with it. Otherwise, it will go by largely unnoticed and will show up again.

Whenever an internal picture forms in your mind, you sense something somewhere in your body? But most likely you are unable to point out where exactly it is.

So, when you are aware of your thoughts and images, and before you begin to feel the sensation, distort the pictures and the voices inside your head. How? Just watch what you are doing inside. Or play around mentally. Your focus is diverted. Your feeling will change.

Your brain can do wonders. If you can repeat something over and over again in your head, you can also have fun creating different images and sounds.

What you say to yourself affect your emotions. You need words to express your sensation. And how you name it will affect your reaction.

Avoid careless language. Choose your words carefully when you talk to yourself. Don't keep telling saying the things that you don't want to feel. Constant usage of negative words make you feel inadequate and defeated.

When a tragedy that causes grief overwhelms you, do something to overcome it. Refuse to allow your emotion of sadness to prolong over a long period.

Get busy. Move your body. Go through the motions. Make things happen. You can control your actions at any given moment. Your feelings will catch up with your activities. Do anything to make you feel happy.

You can also use humor and laughter to change your negative frame of mind. Just as feelings generate actions, actions generate feelings.

When you experience any negative sensation, ask yourself questions. Questions can break your emotional state. Ask yourself lots of questions and look for the answers.

If you feel down and out and worry creeps in, sit down quietly alone and have a few conversations with yourself.

Let go of any bottled feelings and frustration that are holding you back. Why must you keep anything that gives you bad vibes? What would that do to you?

Letting go can eliminate depression, anxiety, guilt and fear. Your pain does not have to live with you forever. Get those destructive feelings, like hate for example, out of your system.

Remember that your emotions come and go. They are always responding to a stimulus. Learn to cultivate a sense of appreciation and gratitude on any situation or problem that arise. The people and challenges that present themselves are trying to teach you something of value.

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