Are you a person who uses: Reason, Emotion or Feeling in your choices?

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• Hello! Are you a person who uses: Reason, Emotion or Feeling in your choices? Before answering this question, let's better understand our emotions that can influence our attitudes and choices.
• Emotion is something that makes us act on impulse, thinking exclusively about well-being, momentary joy. This same emotion makes us cry, smile, in short, it is the feeling that arises without being rational. Acting with reason, on the other hand, is thinking about tomorrow, about the consequences of a decision.
• Emotion and feeling are different things. Emotion is an immediate reaction to a stimulus, it's something that moves you and doesn't involve thinking. Feeling, on the other hand, involves a high degree of cognitive component, perception and evaluation of something. Emotion is reaction while feeling is construction.
• What comes first feeling or emotion? But in reality it is the emotions that give rise to the feelings. While the former refer to an instinctual reaction, a neural response to external stimuli, such as crying or laughing, feelings, in general, reflect how we feel when faced with an emotion.

• Emotions are chemical reactions associated with external stimuli, such as food, smells, people or even ideas, and they happen unconsciously by our body.

  Emotions vary between a valence scale (motivation) and can be positive or negative:

  Positive valence: happens when emotions generate approximation behaviors. For example: when in love, we tend to approach each other out of affection;
  Negative valence: happens when emotions generate withdrawal behaviors. For example: when we turn away from a wild animal out of fear.
  Unlike feelings, we are not able to control emotions with our own free will.

  A classic example of this is when you're in love with someone who doesn't match you. It's impossible to turn off a key in your body and just stop being in love, isn't it?

  Emotions are predominantly unconscious. However, the moment you become aware of the emotion, you begin to interpret it as a feeling.

  Feeling is the awareness of emotions. The feeling arises when we perceive an emotion (chemical reaction) in our body and we need to name it to interpret what is happening.

  Unlike emotion, feeling can be controlled. You alone are responsible for interpreting that emotion, and you can choose to externalize it to the outside world, or keep it to yourself.

  If you don't want to demonstrate, no one will know what's going on. It is very common that a person who is experiencing deep sadness may be hiding his feeling and behaving as if he were happy, keeping his real feeling to himself.

  It is important to understand that each person interprets their emotions according to the meaning they give to each event. That is, the same emotional event generates different feelings in each participant. While for some a score of 9.0 is a huge achievement, for others it can be seen as a huge disappointment.

• THE 3 TIMES OF EMOTION

  From receiving the emotional charge to its bodily effect, the emotion is interpreted in our body over three main times (moments):

  1 – Feeling – In the first half, you feel one of the 5 basic emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness or affection.

  Note: Disguise emotions arise from prohibiting an authentic emotion and imposing you to feel what the other wants you to feel;

  2 – Express verbally – In the second half, you rationalize, decode, name in words and express the emotion verbally to others or to yourself.

  Note: being mental symbols, the verbal expression, depending on how it is used, can heal or even harm the other;

  3 – Acting Corporal – In the third period, you express emotions in a physical way, in a positive or negative way. In other words, at this moment, the way your body reacts is the way the emotion felt or verbalized is expressed through body language.

• THE 5 BASIC EMOTIONS.

  All emotions are born or derive from one of the 5 basic emotions: anger, fear, sadness, joy and affection. These are the 5 that reverberate and produce hundreds of other emotions that, in turn, produce feelings.

• 1 - RAGE

  Anger is a momentary state of intense nervousness towards something or someone that can stimulate attacks of physical or verbal aggression. This emotion is born of a blockage, an insurmountable obstacle.

  The body's reaction from anger is an imbalance reaction. The result of anger is force, physical or verbal aggression, that is, misconduct. Anger speeds up the brain in such a way that we lose our balance and put our energy up.

  Emotion: anger.
  Feelings: guilt, embarrassment, malaise.

• 2 - FEAR

  Fear is an impulse generally disqualified by human beings. It is very common to refer to fear as a negative impulse, or even as a fault or flaw in people.

  However, fear teaches us to respect the limit and needs to be eliminated or overcome when it is or becomes pathological.

  Fear is born out of a sense of danger and can put our energy down, often looking for protection. As a result, it reacts in the form of a fight or flight.

  Emotion: fear.
  Feelings: anxiety, distrust, shame.

• 3 – SADNESS

  Sadness arises from the perception of loss. The greater the perception of loss, the greater the sadness. The consequence is downtime, but remember that you must go into recovery later.

  It's good to express your sadness in words and gestures, get in touch with the feeling and allow yourself to cry and/or withdraw. When we are sad, our bodies expend a lot of energy and it takes time to recover.

  It is important to assess the extent of the loss or situation that made you sad and redirect yourself to other emotions, as long periods of sadness lead to depression, low self-esteem and even low antibody levels.

  Emotion: sadness.
  Feelings: boredom, loneliness, depression.

• 4 – JOY

  The effects of joy are general energy-strengthening impulses. As joy is a contagious emotion, there is a tendency for physical approximation, touches, hugs and caresses. It is a condition of being truly happy.

  It can be considered a state of extreme satisfaction, a feeling of contentment or excessive pleasure. It arises from achievements. The greater the meaning of the achievement, the greater the joy felt. The joyful person exudes an energy of kindness and attracts closeness and connection.

  Emotion: joy.
  Feelings: love, forgiveness, kindness.

• 5 – AFFECTION

  Affection stimulates and reverberates in all other emotions. It arises from the deep connection with people, sharing, contact, closeness (physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual), that is, it arises from co-creation.

  Affectionate people stay connected and the deeper the affection, the more connected people are.

  Affection expands the soul, enlarging it, correlates with pleasure, sex and love, inducing us to a physical approximation so great that it allows or brings protection and reproduction.

  Emotion: affection.
  Feelings: passion, curiosity, hope.

• I am a person who likes to study a little of everything, so today I researched about our emotions, and I found this beautiful explanation and decided to share it with you all. It doesn't matter if you are alone or in a large crowd, remember that most of the things you are looking for and need can be found within yourself.

• Good luck and good profits!😉