The Important Difference Between Feelings And Emotions
Think of your feelings as mental stories about sensations
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
We are emotional creatures
Perhaps it’s just a pet peeve of my own.
I don’t laugh when I read someone describing feelings as emotions, or vice versa. I don’t cry, either. But, I find it particularly distracting and annoying.
It does not help that people use the terms interchangeably. It does not help that when a child has a physical sensation — such as — to being bullied, or in some way offended, we teach them “He/she hurt your feelings, huh?”
No doubt a child will form some thoughts about some sensations, but one of the strengths of children is being able to let go of forming feelings.
An emotion is physical.
A tightness in the chest, a galvanic skin response, a shudder, a tight throat, a stomach contraction, watery eyes, etc. — -basically anything physical displays an emotion.
Maybe think of it as your body’s cells in motion.