How ‘feelings about thinking’ help us navigate our world | Psyche Ideas

The pictures or voice might refer to the past (if we’re feeling bad about something that has happened, even a split second ago), or the future (if we’re frightened of something that might happen, like a conversation or meeting we’re dreading). These intermediary thoughts step in and interpret external events as a good reason to feel bad, mad or sca

One particular type of thought process is so intimately linked to our emotions that some experts consider it a core component. This is the process of ‘making sense of’ or ‘giving meaning to’ our experience. For example, with sadness you have a sense of loss, and with fear you have a sense of danger.

We think about our experience, we feel our way through our experience, and we act upon our experience. Here’s how: Thinking intelligence is used for retrieving and organizing information. It also helps us plan and analyze. Feeling intelligence is used for observing emotions in ourselves and others, interpersonal community, and relationship. Doing i

As soon as our thought – or our way of thinking – changes, our feelings change, even if the situation or object we’re thinking about stays the same. Feeling and thought are inseparable; they are two sides of the same coin. Nothing other than thought in a given moment can cause feeling in that same moment. We may not be aware of our thinking, or be