Feelings

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A thing can be felt through the mind or the senses.  Feelings are same as emotions. Feelings are in stages: evaluation of events or objects, followed by bodily symptoms which motivate us to prepare to act or respond, the final stage is expression by action such as facial or vocal expression. This expression becomes an emotional state which communicates reaction and intention of actions.

Feelings are natural response to our thoughts and intensions. No wonder the bible says as a man thinks in his heart so is he. Evaluation of events or objects occurs as thought in the mind and this we recall is the first stage of a building emotion. Your beliefs and philosophy determine your intensions and affects your evaluations, which in turn affects the motivating bodily symptoms that prepares you for response or action, and finally influences your expression of emotions and emotional state. 

Feelings can drive us to make choices we end up regretting. Feelings can be sometimes wonderful and enjoyable and other times it can make us miserable.

There are so many feelings we experience.  We could be feeling good, bad, excited, discouraged, happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprise, disgusted and many more. The list is almost endless.

Feelings are ever changing, without any warning.

“I can’t understand why, but suddenly I had this feeling that something terrible was going to happen.”

“I feel I should buy it.”

“I feel insulted.”

“I don’t feel like reading.”

“I don’t feel like talking.”

You choose to feel happy when you are sad. You can choose to suppress, express or even ignore an emotion. Emotions can be controlled, but it requires self-control.

Feeling is the voice of the body. Reason is the voice of the soul or mind. Conscience is the voice of the spirit.

You can allow your mind rule over your body rather than your body ruling over you mind. Better still allow the Spirit of God to rule your spirit, your spirit to rule your mind and your mind to rule the body. Only then would you be able to choose rightly what kind of evaluation you give, the resulting preparation and direction of response, and the expression and emotional state.

Feelings can be strong and demanding, we do not have to let it rule over our lives. We can learn to manage our emotions rather than allowing them to manage us. If we are willing to make right choices, we can make decisions that are not based on the way we feel.

How we feel does not justify our actions. People often say how this can be wrong if it feels so right. Your mind and even your conscience is telling you that something is wrong but it feels good to go for it. That it feels right or good does not make it right

We sometimes do some unimaginable things when our emotions are intense, then later we say to ourselves “I can’t believe I just did that.”  

You do not have to feel like doing something before you do it. You just need a reason to do it. It is better to place/choose reason over feelings.

I leave you with this message “never let you emotions rule you, rather rule your emotions.”