Are “Feelings” the Same as Emotions?
Perhaps we can best answer that for our purposes by saying that feelings are our conscious experience of emotions. We feel our emotions and that’s the way we recognize them
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What Is the Mode of Operation (MO) of Emotion?
Are emotions active or passive? Both! Sometimes emotions sweep over us and we feel happy. On the contrary, they may leave us feeling blah, with seemingly no feeling of urgency
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Emotions Mutate
An emotion can cross over and become its opposite in an instant. Yes, emotions mutate! The speed at which love can swing all the way into a bitter hate —
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Emotions Can Last a Lifetime
Neuroscience has attracted a great deal of attention over the last two decades. When examining emotion, it focuses more on the short-term emotional event in the brain, tracing the neural
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Tap Into the Force Within You!
Each strength in our temperament has emotions that drive it to fulfill its designed purpose — unless the emotion is contrary to the strength’s true purpose. (In that case, the
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Is Yours a False Understanding of Emotion?
We know an emotion when we see or feel one. Or do we? We fool ourselves into feeling we know them with the little we do understand about our emotions,
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Our Best Understanding of Emotion
What is emotion? Wow! That’s a difficult question. Even psychologists and philosophers can’t agree on emotion’s basic definition. Religions don’t define it either. We just live with how we have
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What Is Emotion?
What is emotion? Unfortunately, due to the fact that no one has defined emotion to our satisfaction yet, we are at a bit of a handicap. However, their attempts help
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The Benefits of Intelligent Emotions
The Stoics thought that apatheia (apathy or the absence of feeling to the Stoics) was the aim of all goodness. Therefore, they believed we must constantly struggle to rid ourselves
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Introducing Emotion’s Intelligence
How can we think of emotions as irrational when all the meaning we have in life is a result of our emotions? As I will say repeatedly, emotions are facts.
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Emotions Make Us Smart
Without emotions, the smartest among us would be dumb. Surprised? That thought turns all our thinking about our intelligence upside down. Consider: Without emotion, the charging tiger might look to
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Emotions of Others Must Be Considered for Good Relationships
As we have found, cognition is not enough in this life. This is especially true in the sensitive world of relationships. Emotional intelligence is not limited to the ability to
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