Talk:Feeling

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I think this should be expanded a lot, but I'll admit that it does have a lot in common with Emotions. Still, I think this is not the best us Wikipedians can do. I'm not an expert, but I know someone out there is. Lockeownzj00 20:01, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Feelings and emotions are similar but not the same

According to the author on emotions, there are unvoluntary neurological responses associated with emotions. I see feelings more as information about situations that leaves us with choices of actions. Feelings we can understand and interpret differently, depending on many factors, such as our skill in dealing with a situation or such as our history of exposure to a situation. If we are approached by someone showing clear signs of intending harm we can get petrified if we have no skill in defense. If we, however, are black-belts in Te Kwon Do, we may not feel the same panic. If we as young children associated Santa Claus with abuse we may see Santa as a grave threat and it would qualify as a neurotic feeling reaction or one that does not respond to the situation at hand but a previous one that has nothing to do with now. If anger is our response to not getting what we want or having our will obstructed, this information can be accepted for what it is and we can choose other strategies to fulfill our wishes.

Tibetan Buddhism as well as hindu yoga traditions have a lot to offer in this field. it would be a monumental task to sift out things from vast canonical reserves these traditions have but they cannot be left out.Hope someone with competance takes it up. a larger canvas is certainly required.

I edited the opening because it was redundant, rambling and biased against possible future computer consciousness.

Feelings and thoughts must exist together?

I disagree with the statement that feelings and thoughts can only exist together. I think it's entirely possible to experience a feeling without knowing what it reminds you of. Most likely you will try to link thoughts to it, but there is a point when you haven't done it yet - so they can exist without the other.

I believe the psychologist Robert Zajonc demonstrated quite convincingly in the laboratory that feelings can exist without cognition, or in his words, preferences do not require inferences. --Jcbutler 07:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added in some connective tissue between thoughts and feelings based on psychology found in RET/TA/NLP and othersJiohdi 20:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that feelings are thoughts are different and similar there are many relationships between them, there are many more differences as well, I discuss the relationship between emotions, feelings and thoughts in my online book "The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts" it has many new advances in understanding what an emotion is, i suggest it as an external link? http://www.cnx.org/content/m14358/latest