“I'm consciously choosing to feel the emotion of happy.”
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Emotion vs. Feeling
The biological response versus the conscious experience of it.
The comparisoni
“I'm consciously feeling the emotion of happiness — emotions fire biologically; feelings are how we experience them.”
The ruleii
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EMOTION = fire. FEELING = experience.
EMOTION is the underlying biological response — brain and body respond to a trigger before conscious awareness. FEELING is your conscious, labelled experience of the emotion. Emotions are involuntary; feelings involve interpretation.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
Emotion fires. Feeling interprets.