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Emotion vs. Feeling

The biological response versus the conscious experience of it.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

I'm consciously choosing to feel the emotion of happy.

✓ Correct

I'm consciously feeling the emotion of happiness — emotions fire biologically; feelings are how we experience them.

The ruleii

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.

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