Time to put on my "Doctor" hat again and invite you to talk about feelings...This week, I want to raise the issue of thinking versus feeling...
Does your partner profess to being logical, rational, reasonable, in control, whilst declaring your outbursts as emotional, illogical, irrational or unbalanced?
You get the picture...
You try to express yourself, explaining something that you feel.
Post written by Dr. Niamh Clune---"Thinking Versus Feeling!"
This is brilliantly written. “Feeling” as the only rational function of “Thinking” – it is so true. It helps me to explain why I can experience anger or depression and step out consciously while still being aware these emotions are happening in me and I can explain to my partner what is happening inside of me as though separate from the emotions. What to do about switching into another emotion, that is the part that I haven’t figured out yet. It brings a clearer understanding to it by reading what Dr. Clune wrote in her post “Thinking Versus Feeling!” This series has been important to me and I think and hope for others. Emotional Fitness (TM). a great Trademark. An interesting distinction between emotions and feelings. The post "Thinking Versus Feeling" is a very important and intelligent concept to understand. Go to the "Thinking Versus Feeling! Post to get a clearer understanding of what Dr. Niamh Clune is writing about "Emotional Fitness (TM)." This series is excellent and is giving me an understanding that seems to be what I need to hear at this time. The last one on "Do You Cry?" and this one "Thinking Versus Feeling!" have already helped me in more ways than I probably even know. Thank you, Dr. Niamh Clune for your brilliant post. J.K. the secret keeper ps. Please check out the beginning of this series as well as this post which is the second in the series, it is quite enlightening. I intend to follow the complete series as it develops. I can't wait to see what Dr. Clune has waiting for us next in this series on "Emotional Fitness (TM)." The Emotions and Feelings are a field of study in which I am most interested.
THINKING: Political debate; Math; Philosophy; Religious dogma
FEELING: Poetry; The arts; Sociology; Religious faith
THINKING: “One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.” – Ann Radcliffe
FEELING: “Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.” – James Thurber
CHARACTERS:
THINKING: James Bond
FEELING: Luke Skywalker
THINKING SONG: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad-Meatloaf
FEELING SONG: What a Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong
I think some of those quotes are a little mixed in their metaphors as beneficence is an aspect of feeling Lol!..
In an act of charity, is that something you do out of feeling or from thinking. It could go either way. But it would make some people feel good. Therefore good is a feeling. But then, thinking good thoughts, do you feel good thoughts? Something for debate, maybe?
You do feel good thoughts. But I think you are still separating thinking from feeling. They are different functions. You can have a feeling mind, and a thinking heart, when thinking and feeling are interwoven. I feel with my mind, and think with my heart.
I am talking about the integration of these functions: learning to give structure to what we feel, and learning to add meaning and value to what we think. . But it is a mistake to intellectualise on this too much. I am really trying to get the message across that most people need to learn to manage their emotions…whether they are naturally thinking or feeling types. In one, emotion can rule and render it impossible to think clearly. In the other, thinking can rule and sublimate all feeling and emotion and manifest as passive aggression. and lack of sympathy, empathy or understanding. In my book, I talk a lot about bringing the two halves of the whole together – the inner marriage, the conjunction…This is, in fact, key to the whole secret of the message of my book, and the awakening heart. .
This is what I am working on, trying to understand my emotions with my mind. Then trying to understand why my thoughts transform into an emotional disaster. My feelings need to bring my disasterous thoughts and out of control emotions into a more level and understandable state of being. I want to be able to relate with a thinking and feeling being that works simultaneously to form a complete person with their heart body and soul in clear communications. A blending of the being in which I am alive. It is difficult work with my mind and my emotions and spiritual self but I keep trying to understand and to grow, which I feel and think i am doing with a great deal of help. Your book “The Coming of the Feminine Christ” is a great source in helping me to learn and I read it everyday and repeat reading over passages because I gain more insight with each reading. I may not understand it all yet but I will not stop trying. a.l. J.K. @>—