Is there a difference between feelings and emotions?

Question:I think emotions are innate, as they are always instinctively roused even when the cause of their arousal is not purely instinctive, but intellectual rational and experiential, for example learning activities of our higher brain.

This can be easily instantiated that we feel anger when treated disrespectfully, hate when we encounter something we dislike and fear when we come face to face with danger; anger, hate and fear, among many others, are not feelings but emotions that we feel.

We could also feel emotions of love, admiration, wonder and excitement, when we witness something of great value, charm and beauty for instance. Then it is only human to feel thankfulness, gratitude and remorse, for instance.

You may have noticed that in above paragraphs I used the word ‘emotions’ as the noun and the word ‘feel’ as the verb. This in part is in fact the answer to your question. As I understand that emotions as part of human nature are seated within our mind permanently, where they never change, but our feelings do, as they are always transitory and fleeting, however intense they might be at times. We feel the way we do simply because we are the way we are emotionally. Emotions are fixed in us as part of our nature, as human nature.

Emotions, therefore, are the things that when are roused in response to external stimuli, we experience them as feelings, or feelings are in fact the act of experiencing emotions. It is just like the way we have energy stored away in our body in various forms, all hidden or latent, and when we bring that energy in use, it is transformed into power for our actions.

Feelings are also actions in our mind they use emotions. Just like our physical excretions, they can also be strong or weak, where emotions like average power capacity of a person stay almost the same. There can be powerful feelings but never powerful emotions, only genuine, appropriate, or right emotions turning into feelings powerfully or succinctly.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think emotions are innate, as they are always instinctively roused even when the cause of their arousal is not purely instinctive, but intellectual rational and experiential, for example learning activities of our higher brain.

This can be easily instantiated that we feel anger when treated disrespectfully, hate when we encounter something we dislike and fear when we come face to face with danger; anger, hate and fear, among many others, are not feelings but emotions that we feel.

We could also feel emotions of love, admiration, wonder and excitement, when we witness something of great value, charm and beauty for instance. Then it is only human to feel thankfulness, gratitude and remorse, for instance.

You may have noticed that in above paragraphs I used the word ‘emotions’ as the noun and the word ‘feel’ as the verb. This in part is in fact the answer to your question. As I understand that emotions as part of human nature are seated within our mind permanently, where they never change, but our feelings do, as they are always transitory and fleeting, however intense they might be at times. We feel the way we do simply because we are the way we are emotionally. Emotions are fixed in us as part of our nature, as human nature.

Emotions, therefore, are the things that when are roused in response to external stimuli, we experience them as feelings, or feelings are in fact the act of experiencing emotions. It is just like the way we have energy stored away in our body in various forms, all hidden or latent, and when we bring that energy in use, it is transformed into power for our actions.

Feelings are also actions in our mind they use emotions. Just like our physical excretions, they can also be strong or weak, where emotions like average power capacity of a person stay almost the same. There can be powerful feelings but never powerful emotions, only genuine, appropriate, or right emotions turning into feelings powerfully or succinctly.

Depending on the situation, yes

Yes. You feel an emotion. They are 2 entirely different things. You FEEL love - which is an emotion, you FEEL hurt - which is an emotion. You can have sad feelings - the sadness is the emotional feeling you have.

Yes. Try naming the emotion that goes with "feeling like I've been run over by a truck."

It could be anything from shock to remorse to shame, etc. So the emotion is what you feel; but the "feeling" is a linquistic description of how that emotion "feels".

feelings includes hot, cold, etc.
emotions are what we make of those feelings, e.g. happiness at being warm.

that's as much of a distinction as i can make. i think.

Emotion is the consciousness of Feeling at its lowest level. To really feel something, one's gotta go beyond the emotional aura; way beyond any sensation, emotion, stimuli, etc.

Good luck!

I always think of feelings as the physical manifestation of one's emotions.

Feelings, to me, are more about logic where as emotions can be completely illogical.

Often our feelings are a reflection of our thoughts and emotions. Emotions just spring up in us.

At least that's how I feel about it.

they are related cause you feel emotions, feeling it's just another way to say emotions, but I find the word "emotions" more adequate and more beautiful