What’s the difference between a feeling and an emotion?

Feelings are not psychological processes. They are generated by the body’s hormonal and physiological systems. Feelings appear “in order to…”, while emotions arise “because…”.

For an emotion to appear, an external stimulus is required.

Love, anger, and stress are not feelings. Love is a state. We cannot “sense” love or physically feel it, because feelings are the body’s signals sent to the mind.

Feelings are like the climate. Emotions are like the weather.

Human consciousness can perceive only a limited number of basic feelings, and they have their own sequence rather than hierarchy — each one is important. Feelings do not appear chaotically. Our task is to learn to recognize which feeling we are experiencing and understand what actions it requires from us.