What is what? O.o'
Autor: William Malinverni | Publicado: 2011-07-15T18:24:00-07:00

Before continue the study of feelings clearly, first we need to make clear what is what. What is a sensation? An emotion? And a feeling? All these questions should disappear before we can proceed. Let's go straight to the point?
What is&nbsp;a sensation?

Sensations&nbsp;are the impressions&nbsp;we have of the&nbsp;outside world,&nbsp;which can be manifested&nbsp;in many different&nbsp;forms, from&nbsp;visual&nbsp;to&nbsp;tactile impressions&nbsp;(light, touch, smells,&nbsp;etc.)&nbsp;Which are transmitted&nbsp;to the sensory organs and&nbsp;carried to the brain&nbsp;through the nervous system. We spent&nbsp;daily for&nbsp;a&nbsp;multitude of&nbsp;stimuli (sensations), and&nbsp;interpreted only&nbsp;the necessary.&nbsp;The stimuli&nbsp;(sensations)&nbsp;received&nbsp;are equal&nbsp;for all,&nbsp;what changes&nbsp;is the&nbsp;individual perception&nbsp;and level&nbsp;of consciousness&nbsp;and reflection. While sometimes&nbsp;the feeling&nbsp;is&nbsp;regarded as the&nbsp;starting point&nbsp;for building&nbsp;the experience&nbsp;and knowledge,&nbsp;it is not,&nbsp;however,&nbsp;an mediate data&nbsp;of consciousness:&nbsp;the feeling&nbsp;only&nbsp;shows our&nbsp;spirit&nbsp;in a more&nbsp;complex form,&nbsp;the way&nbsp;of&nbsp;perception.  What is&nbsp;an&nbsp;emotion?

After the&nbsp;initial&nbsp;sensation&nbsp;is&nbsp;assimilated&nbsp;it becomes&nbsp;an&nbsp;emotion, so the emotions are the&nbsp;initial reaction&nbsp;to a particular&nbsp;occurrence,&nbsp;have emotions&nbsp;is something&nbsp;instinctive and&nbsp;basic human&nbsp;who can not remain indifferent&nbsp;to&nbsp;his surroundings.&nbsp;In most cases&nbsp;the emotions&nbsp;are followed by&nbsp;internal responses&nbsp;(joy, sadness, anger, euphoria, etc.) and /&nbsp;or external&nbsp;(crying,&nbsp;smiling,&nbsp;sad face,&nbsp;surprised&nbsp;face,&nbsp;etc.),&nbsp;but still&nbsp;you can have&nbsp;the emotion&nbsp;without a corresponding&nbsp;behavior, then&nbsp;we can assume that&nbsp;emotion is not&nbsp;only&nbsp;the behavior, much less the behavior is&nbsp;an essential part of&nbsp;emotion. Emotions are&nbsp;part of our&nbsp;general development&nbsp;helping&nbsp;us to have inner experiences&nbsp;that&nbsp;shape us&nbsp;as individuals.&nbsp;During&nbsp;our existence we have&nbsp;different experiences,&nbsp;some happy&nbsp;some not,&nbsp;that in many instances&nbsp;even though&nbsp;we do not&nbsp;remember, they&nbsp;are stored in&nbsp;our subconscious&nbsp;and&nbsp;emerge&nbsp;in various ways (dreams,&nbsp;a&nbsp;similar scene, etc..),&nbsp;Some emotions&nbsp;are so strongly&nbsp;marked&nbsp;in&nbsp;, that&nbsp;we always hear&nbsp;people saying&nbsp;in different&nbsp;situations, "Wow&nbsp;this perfume&nbsp;reminds me of&nbsp;my sister who&nbsp;lives far away."&nbsp;Along with these&nbsp;situations,&nbsp;beyond recall, the speaker&nbsp;awakens&nbsp;within him&nbsp;an&nbsp;emotion (longing,&nbsp;sadness, excitement&nbsp;etc.).
What’s a&nbsp;feeling?

The feeling&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;emotion felt&nbsp;and "thought"&nbsp;it would be&nbsp;the lengthy emotion, which&nbsp;suffer the action&nbsp;of our evolution&nbsp;and our&nbsp;general knowledge. The human being, when less evolved more he uses the instincts and the more&nbsp;evolved&nbsp;the more he uses the&nbsp;free will and&nbsp;have understand of their own&nbsp;feelings. The feeling&nbsp;gradually&nbsp;unfolds&nbsp;in humans&nbsp;as&nbsp;it&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;sublime, feelings are&nbsp;understood&nbsp;and&nbsp;form the&nbsp;interior capacity&nbsp;with which&nbsp;we were born to&nbsp;get to what&nbsp;we think is&nbsp;good /&nbsp;evil and&nbsp;right / wrong. Feelings&nbsp;produce emotions but these&nbsp;will be felt by the body. Example,&nbsp;a&nbsp;person who&nbsp;loves another,&nbsp;for having&nbsp;made ​​this decision to&nbsp;love this&nbsp;one, even&nbsp;after suffering some&nbsp;evil committed&nbsp;by a loved one, you can still&nbsp;love her, often&nbsp;without understanding&nbsp;how to&nbsp;love at the same&nbsp;time&nbsp;you feel the emotion&nbsp;characteristic of the&nbsp;time of&nbsp;anger,&nbsp;or pain&nbsp;of betrayal,&nbsp;or some other emotion&nbsp;that rationally,&nbsp;could lead&nbsp;the person who loves&nbsp;to want to&nbsp;stop loving. The feelings&nbsp;would be actions&nbsp;arising from decisions&nbsp;taken by&nbsp;one person.&nbsp;We can mention&nbsp;the&nbsp;empathy,&nbsp;on the level&nbsp;of curiosity that&nbsp;would be the ability&nbsp;to obtain and&nbsp;capture information&nbsp;about the feelings&nbsp;and emotions&nbsp;of others.
One problem that&nbsp;may confuse&nbsp;the understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;this&nbsp;concept&nbsp;of&nbsp;feeling,&nbsp;is the fact that&nbsp;, generally,&nbsp;the names used&nbsp;to&nbsp;refer to&nbsp;a feeling,&nbsp;they&nbsp;are also&nbsp;used&nbsp;to&nbsp;refer&nbsp;to the emotions.
Summing up, the&nbsp;feeling would be&nbsp;the initial physical part,&nbsp;the emotion&nbsp;is the "process", &nbsp;the moment&nbsp;in which we perceive&nbsp;and&nbsp;feel,&nbsp;we have the&nbsp;internal interpretation&nbsp;and we can or can not express&nbsp;externally, and finally the feeling that would be the outcome, thought and emotion reflected externalizing the evolutionary level of being.