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Feeling
We experience feelings and emotions from well before the event of our birth. They can be intense, or frightening, or wonderful. They can also be the most misunderstood, and consequently mistreated, gifts we have as human beings. We judge them, repress them, discount them, drug them, worship them, and run from them. Yet, what a bore to be without them! Life fully lived is life filled with feeling!
Feelings here means emotions. The physical experience of heat or cold or hunger are sensations, covered in the section on Sensing Feelings are not the same as Thinking, even though we commonly hear them being interchanged. Actually, thinking and feeling are experienced in quite different areas of the brain. The limbic system, deep within the brain, is the source of emotions, while thoughts occur in the neo-cortex, or gray matter, which is the surface of the brain, and is a rather recent development in the evolution of mammals.
For any given event, we respond by both feeling and thinking. Yet most of us give priority to our thoughts about a subject and sometimes ignore the feelings.
For every new situation we have feelings instantaneously, even though we may have learned to suppress them. This section is about becoming more aware of the marvelous gift of feelings.
Next Week: Thinking
Feeling is the 6th section of the 12-part Wellness Inventory holistic assessment and life-balance program.
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