18 Feelings and thinking. How language disguises reality | a secular dharma
Channel: a secular dharma?
Date: 2020-11-14

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The importance of focusing on feelings generated by initial contact with the outside world through cognition. Being aware of life as it happens rather than life happing to you and recognising that feelings can come from external stimuli without cognitive processing and that thinking about these feelings can dissipate their impact. So in sone circumstances at least it is not thinking that creates feelings but feelings that stimulate thought. And without recognising this, thoughts and feelings can create a self-perpetuating feedback loop. 

How this system must have been evolutionary beneficial but how it can be damaging in today's society given we dont have any control over many of the things that happen to us.

What is the mind? is the mind more than thinking? more than cognition? The relationship between thinking and feelings.

How language disguises reality. We have learnt the meaning of words and this meaning becomes more important than the reality it describes.