2007-10-22 18:24:31 · 14 answers · asked by goodfella 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Before I explain that, let me give you an example :
Sometimes we visit a restaurant and find that a particular dish has excellent flavor, say Thai red curry. Then we try to imagine and ask what ingredients have gone into producing that unique flavor.
The emotions/feelings are just like that.
The ingredients of every emotion/feeling are --- sensations.
Every emotion has related sensations arising in organ(s).
When our sensual organs interact with the world or when mind is thinking about anything they produce nervous reactions. These are primary ones. After these , secondary sensations are also produced in various organs.
Besides that the feelings are also produced as a result of desire of the organs.
Every organ is enclosed in a mesh of nerves. And every organ is compose of cells. In every cell, in its nucleus , DNA is producing various bio-chemicals as per requirements at that time. These bio-chemicals produce desire or a nervous reaction to external stimuli.
The sensations also interact with mind to produce related thoughts e.g when hungry we start to imagine about various dishes. But these thoughts again stimulate the related organ and produce stronger desire and propel a person into taking a particular course of action to subdue related sensations and satisfy the desire.
Whether originating from external sources or from internal, the sensations are produced in nervous system. Various combinations of various sensations in various organs are subconsciously interpreted as emotions.
For instance :
Anger -- a person will get fast heartbeat, heat sensation, shaking & irregular breathing. All these effects get produced from the nervous reactions.
Similarly for every emotion we can find a set of sensations being produced by nervous system. The intensity of the feeling depends upon the inherent samanskara inside that person which is nothing but our habits and propensities.
Buddha found that the path to nirvana is to eliminate negative feelings producing negative desires and if we want to control the feelings , we need to control the related sensations arising in various organs , besides controlling the thoughts as well.
2007-10-22 23:13:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Feelings are not from God, they are not mysterious or mystical experiences. They exist for our survival.
Feelings, all feelings, are automatic responses which originate from the concepts we have accepted. All feelings reflect evaluations, i.e. how we value what we perceive.
They are automatic because they cannot be controlled or commanded. What you feel has a cause, and the cause is either a sensation, a perception or a thought or concept.
You cannot decide to have a feeling of any kind. You cannot say to yourself "Now I want to feel disgust, or fear, or love, or compasion, or faith." In order to have any of these feelings you must first perceive something from outside or think about something that you have already expereinced that will trigger that emotion.
For example: If you walk in a dark room and you see something on the floor that might be a snake, you experience automatically a certain kind of feeling. It will not be love, compasion, faith or joy. It will probably be more like caution, alertness, curiosity or even fear. If you turn on the light and you discover that what lies on the floor is just a rope, your feeling automatically changes. Again, it will not be love, devotion, faith or joy. It will probably be a sense of relief and relaxation.
None of those feelings could have been commanded. They all happen automatically depending on what we experience or think the experience might be.
All feelings are evaluations and fall into two broad categories: evaluations of things we like and of things we dislike or we think they can hurt us.
2007-10-22 18:44:09 · answer #2 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I wish I knew maybe then I could switch them off at times! My son says they come from a multitude of places inside and outside, I think he is right as it is such a difficult area of life to think about, and a very good question.
love from Dot.x.
2007-10-23 09:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's a large question, and maximum of religions have faith it comes from quite a few issues... for me, i've got faith "intestine" thoughts comes from the expertise of your suggestions. i've got faith that all of us have some form of "6th experience" and that performs a huge function. Like i'm able to sense thoughts via merely status close to somebody. We in straightforward terms use a small area of our brains, so what if we used all of it? faith: I have not any thought!!!, lol
2016-12-15 07:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feelings come from our senses and our gut reactions to the feedback.
2007-10-24 07:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by Aryacitta 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is a form of reaction operatted by the brain. The human senses are preety much the only "receptors" of feeling(for humans of course).
2007-10-22 18:28:33 · answer #6 · answered by 8theist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Emotions are a survival tool. Every mammal has emotions to one degree or another... anyone who has ever had a mammal for a pet (dog, cat, etc...) can tell you this. You attach emotions to different events to help you remember whether it was 'good' (beneficial for survival) or 'bad' (detrimental to survival).
2007-10-22 18:47:02 · answer #7 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thoughts.....you can't have a feeling unless you have a thought first.
And since you can control your thoughts....it follows that you can control your feelings. Change your mind, change your life!
(((HUG)))
2007-10-23 04:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are the physiological symptoms of mind-brain evaluations.
2007-10-23 01:22:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The soul - as does the will and the mind. We are tripartite consisting of a spirit, soul, and body.
2007-10-22 18:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋