Feelings

Thoughts about feelings…

Can you read people’s minds? In a way we can. Their feelings and emotions manifest in their behaviors.

Difference between feelings and emotions is that feelings are experienced consciously, while emotions manifest either consciously or subconsciously.

While emotions start as sensations in the body, feelings are generated from our thoughts about those emotions.

Emotions affect more than you may realize — motivation, learning, decision making, connection, and so much more.

There are many times, often during periods of great challenges, that emotions can feel more like a burden than a blessing.

But emotions can be powerful.

They can help you survive, grow, and connect with others. And they can guide your decisions, behaviors, and motivations.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” ⁠⁠—Pearl S. Buck

“Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a life time.” ⁠⁠—William Shakespeare

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.” ⁠⁠—Marianne Moore

“My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.” ⁠—Yann Martel

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ⁠—Helen Keller

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” ⁠⁠—Carl W. Buehner

Final thoughts…

You can feel good for no reason at all. In fact, you can choose to feel any way you wish at any time and in any situation.

Whatever you desire, you desire because of the way you think it will make you feel. Whatever you avoid, you avoid because you don’t wish to experience the feelings that you assume it will bring.

Yet the fact is that your feelings are not controlled by your circumstances. Those feelings are determined by how you choose to respond to various situations and events.

Your feelings in any moment are yours to choose. You can choose to feel the wonderful reality of your most treasured dreams long before those dreams have been fully achieved.

And when you do, you put yourself in a positive, powerful place from which you can surely make those dreams real. When you feel good for no reason, you immediately begin to create the reasons.

Choose each day to feel the way you wish to feel, no matter what is going on around you. And let your feelings pull you toward the fulfillment of your destiny.