Feeling
* affect thinking and learning.
* also influence the personality of the person and can make people happy or unhappy.
* are a common endowment of our human nature
  - ground for relating and communicating with others
  - way to express the wave of one's mind
  - also signals to act
* are an integral part of relationships
  - the human experience
  - changeable variables that have little relevance in decision-making on the job
  - complex and communicated in many ways
  - different from person to person
  - echoes rising from the depths of our souls
  - energy
  - feelings
* are important clues to the condition of our mental health
  - of people's mental health
  - in language
  - to every person s emotional and spiritual growth
* are internal because they happen inside of a person 's body
  - states, but overt behaviors are used to communicate feelings to others
  - often an indicator that there problem
* are only feelings if they are felt
  - our emotional responses to information, truth and experiences
  - physical, and so the changes are sensed in the body
  - pushes or pulls on the fabric of being
  - reactions to beliefs
  - sensitivity
  - spontaneous, involuntary responses to situations
* are subjective and difficult to measure empirically
  - emotional states
  - symbolic of the meaning of human life
  - tenacious and tend to cling to attachments
* are the best indicator of what people value
  - common denominator in communication
  - fastest way to the person's heart
  - full range of affective states that an individual can experience
  - language of the Higher Self
  - opposite of faith
  - tools by which people communicate with one another
* becomes emotion because it can be communicated.
* can be problematic when in excess, in deficit, or distorted or inappropriate
  - the main reason a person enters psychotherapy
  - manifest themselves as sicknesses
  - range from anger, frustration, fear, shame and guilt to numbness
  - stimulate, mediate and reinforce thoughts and behaviour
* change as situations and conditions change.
* come from a very structurally complex area of the brain known as the limbic system.
* depend on behaviors and behaviors can be changed.
* determine both the quality and quantity of one's learning.
* experience the inner signals, as opposed to the outer signals of senses.
* follow thoughts and actions.
* help children to pay attention to their loss.
* is about the awareness of an affect and is an ability to appreciate and comprehend
  - an organ of knowledge
  - based on the rhythmic processes of breathing and the circulation of the blood
  - essential to the health of human beings
  - intuition
  - pure experience, it is the bridge between mind and body
* is the autonomous, qualitative evaluation by the psyche of the experience
  - awareness through physical sensations
  - basic plasma of all beings
  - capacity of our mind that is most closely related to the body
  - common human denominator
  - function associated with experiencing pleasure or unpleasantness
  - language of the soul
  - means whereby, in the first instance, concepts gain concrete life
  - most refined aspect of individual existence
  - outcome of contact between the senses and objects
  - predominant state of mind
  - sensations that register in the body, like warm, cold, pressure etc
  - what creates
* means that a person, as a rule, makes a decision basing on emotions.
* never die, and love never compromises an existing relationship between two people in love.
* often influence people when they seem relevant to and inform the task at hand
  - interfere with thinking, trust and imagination
* play a large part in accessing spiritual knowledge.
* tend to travel together, just like people do.
* transcend the limitations of thought, the limitations of living life in the mind.
* understood by another individual is one of the most effective ways of creating change.
* uses the eye to eat shapes.
+ Applied behavior analysis, History, Behaviorism
  * Behaviorists believe that behavior is caused by things that happen in the environment. These things are called external events. External events could be any change in the environment. They study the external causes of behavior instead of a person's feelings. A person's feelings are internal so behaviorists think they cannot be studied scientifically. Feelings are internal because they happen inside of a person's body. Feeling's cannot be seen just by looking at a person. Since feelings cannot be seen they cannot be studied without bias.