I think, emotion is a result of a thinking process that interprets feeling in a way that can be shared with others. One huge problem with the linguistics of emotion is how it entangles true feeling, re-routing true feelings into the rationale world of the mind and eventually into a sense of disconnectedness. What humans interpret as emotion in animals is a mis-interpretation of the mammal's very real sensory world of feeling: And animals are extremely sensitive which is why our lack of connectedness with true feeling is torturing them. Human babies and small children share a mammals heightened sensory ability to feel the feelings of others. It is only when the rationale emotive world of linguistic thinking clicks into the minds of humans that we begin to lose this sensitive consciousness and begin to develop ideas and beliefs about our emotional control over the world of feeling. This doesn't become more prevalent than in the self management of chronic pain. It is extremely difficult to share the depth and power chronic pain inflicts on the body, other than through emotive linguistics. Try as you may, no matter how much emotion is expressed, the feeling is unable to be transmitted to another who is only fluent in emotions. This is because words are limited in meaning. In this way, emotions are not remnants of animal instinct, they are a suppression of it. Humans linguistically control the 'animal' instinct with rationale emotive words. "I am angry" a man says when in fact, if he felt his truth instead, he may find that he simply feels tired with the anger more related to his story of injustice.
Emotion is very human while feeling is universal. The fact that humans are so obsessed with their emotions is why they're loosing contact with the pain and suffering their emotive behaviour is having on those who depend on them.
Mammals feel deeply and we share this because we ARE mammals, whether we want to recognise this or not.
Humans control deep feelings with emotive behaviours the most predominant of which is language and how we use language to think and express how we think we are feeling.
Change your thinking, change your life (which represents our cover) is based on the premise that thinking, in your language of culture or choice, can over rule the natural (feeling) order of the body. You can process what you want to see differently by simply shifting your thought processes like the actor of your own play. This is why I think, emotions are not the root of humans, but the creation. Emotions are not a remnant of an animal instinct, but the product of a thinking mind. A mind that has become used to putting tags on feelings, whether those tags clearly identify what is being felt or not. Human language has the power to convince its own mind that what it feels isn't true and nothing is a finer example of this than the industrialised practices of stoicism. http://www.iep.utm.edu/stoicmind/ I'm sure there are other, even better, examples, and if you know of them, please share.
© Chris Tyne 4/02/2016
Emotion is very human while feeling is universal. The fact that humans are so obsessed with their emotions is why they're loosing contact with the pain and suffering their emotive behaviour is having on those who depend on them.
Mammals feel deeply and we share this because we ARE mammals, whether we want to recognise this or not.
Humans control deep feelings with emotive behaviours the most predominant of which is language and how we use language to think and express how we think we are feeling.
Change your thinking, change your life (which represents our cover) is based on the premise that thinking, in your language of culture or choice, can over rule the natural (feeling) order of the body. You can process what you want to see differently by simply shifting your thought processes like the actor of your own play. This is why I think, emotions are not the root of humans, but the creation. Emotions are not a remnant of an animal instinct, but the product of a thinking mind. A mind that has become used to putting tags on feelings, whether those tags clearly identify what is being felt or not. Human language has the power to convince its own mind that what it feels isn't true and nothing is a finer example of this than the industrialised practices of stoicism. http://www.iep.utm.edu/stoicmind/ I'm sure there are other, even better, examples, and if you know of them, please share.
© Chris Tyne 4/02/2016
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