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Managing feelings versus emotions
Finally, because there are differences between emotions and feelings, there are also different ways to manage these experiences. While emotions require disconnection (for example, to avoid increasing anger and losing control), feelings need to be heard and redirected.
In any case, it’s possible to both regulate emotions and reinterpret feelings and these things help us have better psychological health.
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The speed in which they appear and change
Emotions are characterized by being quite immediate. They represent the body’s alarm and survival system. In order to have a feeling, it’s necessary to think about what has happened (value the emotion), reflect on how we behaved, and thus begin to elaborate on it psychologically....
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Automatic vs. reason
Emotions mostly originate in the limbic system and the most primitive part of the brain. On the other hand, feelings come from the frontal lobe. In other words, feelings result from abstract thinking. Emotions are innate and genetically determined as the result of evolution. Alth...
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Emotions are very powerful while feelings aren’t as intense
The basic and universal emotions include joy, anger/rage, fear, surprise, and sadness. In this sense, surprise is a neutral emotion whose function is to help us stay alert and very aware of what’s going to happen.
For example, sadness makes us distance ourselves fro...
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Emotions such as pain and sadness may be difficult to contain, but nothing to be ashamed of. However, sometimes one may prefer to hide one's feelings if it can cause one further vulnerability.
Burying negative emotions can lead to several mental health issues. Avoiding the person, people, ...
We can't really control our feelings
But we can control our reactions to those feelings.
By increasing our awareness of emotions and their effects, and then focusing on our thoughts, we can learn to manage our emotional reactions effectively.
Choosing to deal with negative emotions
Ignoring feelings (like "stuffing your anger") is not the healthiest way to deal with them. generally speaking, that does not make them go away but can cause them to come out in different ways. That’s because your emotions act as signals to you that what you are doing in your life is or isn’t wor...
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