4 things you wish you knew about feelings
1- YOU ARE CROSSING A STREET and a car is about to hit you: do you stop and think before you jump to safety? Fortunately you don't... We can figure things out and act accordingly way before we are even aware of it. Gut feelings can instantly steer us right. 2- Puppy dogs playfuly fight each other. They have fun, and they prepare themselves for real fights in the future. Human beings do that too: we use fun to learn. In short, fun is not only pleasant, it also put us in a frame of mind in which we are open to new information and experiences, which in turn might became lifesavers in the future.
3- We have 1000 thoughts every day: I need to finish that assignment, call mum, buy milk, discuss with Tom our project,…Emotions tells us which thoughts really matter to us. We also say very many things every day: pass me the salt, please stop, I like you, let’ go there together,… Emotions tell others what’s really important to us. In short, feelings express the personal significance of otherwise cold information.
4- Emotions have a time dimension associated with them: we are sad about a loss in the past, angry about damage in the present, and afraid about possible events in the future. If we occasionally associate feelings to a wrong temporal dimension (e.g. angry about the future, or afraid of the past) we have an opportunity to improve our life via working on our emotional literacy.
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Aren't our thoughts and feelings so interesting? It's been amazing for me to practice watching them. To watch how thoughts create feelings, and feelings create thoughts.
One of my most helpful thoughts about feelings is that feelings are mostly there to help me make quick decisions. They're like pattern matching. It's like I'm a caveman faced with a danger - I don't have time to think, just feel a surge of fear and do the thing that's worked best in the past.
It helps me to think about feelings that way, because then I don't have to take them so seriously!
Many blessings to you all.
James - Wisdomology.com
Posted by: James
James. I am fascinated too by how our mind works, and I am also aware that too much introspection is a danger: there a beautiful world out there I am eager to explore!
Ciao
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