What is an emotion and what is a feeling?

What are the feelings?

In Orthodox psychology, different groups of feelings are distinguished. So, there are bodily feelings, there are mental ones, and there are feelings that characterize a person’s emotional states.

The first two groups of feelings belong to a person and relate to his characteristics.

Bodily senses - vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch - determine a person’s ability to experience various (corresponding to these feelings) psychophysical sensations from external stimuli. Thanks to the possession of these senses, a person can see objects around him (accessible to vision); hear various sounds, noises; distinguish odors; perceive the taste of food and drink; touch this and that.

Possession of spiritual feelings (sensual power of the soul) allows a person to determine what is happening to him or in the reality around him as pleasant - painful, causing satisfaction - displeasure, etc.

A different understanding should be put into the concept of “feeling” when it comes to the third group of feelings. In this meaning, “feeling” is interpreted as an internal sensation of a certain psychological state, for example, fear (feeling of fear), anxiety (feeling of anxiety), melancholy (feeling of longing), love (feeling of love), shame (feeling of shame), sympathy or antipathy, jealousy, trust or mistrust, etc.

The third group of feelings can also include feelings associated with the manifestation of a sinful disposition of the soul, for example, a feeling of envy, a feeling of hatred for one’s neighbor, as well as feelings that in different cases can be classified as both sinful and non-sinful, say, a feeling of resentment or feeling of anger.

Note that some of the feelings presented in the third group should be distinguished from their manifestation. Thus, the feeling of anger may not manifest itself externally. In this case, the person experiencing this feeling will look even, calm, and friendly towards the one with whom he is angry.

Which rule applies

In Russian, unpronounceable consonants are usually checked in one of two ways:

• select words with the same root in which this letter is clearly audible;
• they look for word forms in which a vowel follows a consonant letter - then it is also clearly audible in pronunciation.

But unfortunately, there are no words with which to check the lexeme “feeling”. Because even in word forms with the same root, the letter -v- is not pronounced: I feel, feel, feel.

It turns out that this word is included in the Russian spelling dictionary. In order to write it correctly, you need to learn and remember it. If this does not happen, you will have to consult a dictionary every time.

Example sentences

A good way to remember a word is to test your knowledge in a practical way. Therefore, we offer example sentences that use the problematic lexeme. This will help you learn how to spell "feeling" and its related words:

1. It was an unfamiliar feeling for me, and it even took me some time to get used to the new height.
2. The feeling of shame grew inside the man every second, and he no longer knew where to go from his emotions.
3. After the third cup of hot tea, I finally felt the long-awaited warmth.
4. I felt a sense of curiosity when we were going to visit new neighbors from our entrance.
5. These feelings were not mutual.

Set expressions are formed by attaching the following lexical units to this noun: experience, lose, come into, responsibility, self-esteem, humor.

How to write incorrectly

The word form without the letter -v- is spelled incorrectly: chustva, chustvat. Do not forget about other spellings: -chu- is correct to write only with the letter -u-.

Why is it criminal to destroy a Christian family because of dissimilarity in character?

In the Christian understanding, a Christian family is not just a union of two people. By being united in marriage, a man and a woman become “one flesh” (Matt. 19:5). To say more, a Christian family is a small church. When entering into a marriage, the bride and groom express before God and their neighbors words of desire and readiness to enter into and maintain a marriage. A Christian marriage is blessed by God Himself, and “what God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Matt. 19:6).

“They didn’t get along” - this formulation is often used by spouses to justify the need for divorce. But what does “do not get along” mean? Often behind this beautiful expression there are completely ugly things hidden. Very often it does not reflect the fundamental impossibility of saving the marriage, but the banal reluctance of the spouses to listen and hear each other, to meet each other halfway, to sacrifice, to show psychological flexibility, Christian humility and patience. Thus, the culprit for the destruction of the family, the culprit for the violation of the commandment “what God has joined together, let no man put asunder” is not an abstract “dissimilarity in character”; The spouses themselves are the perpetrators of the crime.

Did not get along? Improve your characters, forgive each other, sacrifice in the name of love. This is a gradual process, but possible for everyone, otherwise repentance would be impossible. All saints are people who have changed their character to one degree or another.

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Formula of love: how feelings arise

“Love will come unexpectedly”... Sounds beautiful. But maybe everything is not so unexpected? On the contrary, is love a complex biological calculation? Today, scientists have established at least four mechanisms for the emergence of love. They are probably all involved in one way or another. In what proportions - everything is individual.

The results of scientific research are illustrated by real stories from our readers, which they shared in the online community “City of Women” on the “KP” blogpost and in their diaries.

Chemistry and life

“I remember one girl amazed me at a school disco. And especially her perfume. When I danced with her, I could not enjoy her closeness. She wasn't a beauty, but there was something about her! Then I wanted to see her off, but she had already left. I could not forget her smell and walked around as if spellbound. One day we met, and - again this subtle aroma - I asked her what kind of perfume it was. “I don’t wear perfume,” she said. And soon I realized that I fell in love.”

Ravil.

We met when I was already married. He was 20 years older than me. I had absolutely no intention of doing anything like that, but something pushed me, some inner force, maybe his smell... In a fit of adventurism, I couldn’t resist and came to visit him. We slept together, and for the first time in my life I experienced a vaginal orgasm. In the morning I told my first husband that I was leaving him. Then there were six months of crazy sex, in addition, he was smart, caring, gallant, after a couple of weeks we mutually declared our love. Two years later I became pregnant and gave birth to a wonderful daughter. But after she turned one year old, he began to drink irrepressibly, scandals, coldness and even insults began to arise on the basis of his jealousy, sex was like a holiday, at best, once a month. After another blatant drunken incident, I couldn’t stand it and got divorced and went to live with my mother. We lived together for about seven years. I probably still love love. Transcendental.

prekrasnople4a.

Dr. Fliess, a friend of Freud, discovered the nasal organ, which is responsible for the perception of pheromones of the opposite sex. These are two tiny antennae-shaped receptors that are located at the bottom of the nasal cavity. It is they, these “antennae”, that recognize how ideally a given individual suits you from a biochemical point of view. In cases where they say that love is blind, pheromones probably played a huge role.

Each of us has our own biochemical composition. And pheromones themselves do not smell at all. We feel the “formula” that suits us literally at the level of sympathy. Well, you like this person, his clothes, smell, appearance - and that’s it! Even if he says stupid things and is not dressed very stylishly.

This is how nature tells us: if you converge on a biochemical level, you are more likely to have good offspring.

By the way, what’s interesting: with the help of pheromone molecules, you can even read thoughts. You can feel a bad attitude towards you, even if the person smiles from ear to ear and says compliments? Human thoughts, if you like, also “smell.” Positively minded people attract other positive people because they “smell” in the same direction. Thoughts are also transmitted to others using pheromones, so there is what is called group dynamics.

All this is a reason to think once again that the world is not so bad. And, for example, unhappy unrequited love is just an example of the fact that you are not suitable for each other. There is no, you know, biochemical resonance. This means that somewhere there is someone or someone with whom he will be.

We are of the same blood

“We had an attraction at first sight. Well, it took another two hours of conversation “about nothing” to make sure that yes, everything would end in a wedding. I realized: I would have to talk to this person for a long, long time and not get enough. Perhaps it will last a lifetime. We have been together for 7 years, 6 of them with a stamp. I hope this is just the beginning."

Babyashkina.

The effect of unity, when there is something to talk about, is created due to the fact that people, as a rule, grew up in the same social environment and have similar family scenarios. There are exceptions when people find in each other a continuation and complement of themselves.

Most often, such stories happen to people who have the talent of an everyday psychologist. They intuitively use scientific techniques of “active listening.” For example, “paraphrase” is when the interlocutor’s main idea is repeated in a slightly modified version. Or “question-echo” - when the last phrase is repeated word for word in the form of a question. There are also such universal linking words. It is enough to sometimes insert “I understand, I understand” or “well, yes, yes”, “of course, naturally” - and the person will consider you a like-minded person.

There is also the so-called transfer of feelings effect. If you listen carefully about the feelings of another, then the person, as it were, transfers his feelings to you. An interesting example: a man is about to get a divorce and tells his wife that he loves someone else. And if she listens carefully to his monologue about feelings, then in 7 out of 10 cases he will stay with his wife. He will transfer to her the feelings that he felt for his mistress.

Well, a man listening to a woman with interest is generally one of the most secret erotic fantasies of women. Happiness is when you are understood.

And laughter and sin

“And I fell in love with my husband at first sight... He sat on the windowsill in the dorm with his then girlfriend and joked. We didn’t know each other yet, but looking at him, I understood with some sixth sense: we will be together.”

BelAchka.

First, laughter stimulates the production of endorphins. Once you make a successful joke, you automatically give the signal: “I’m fine!” And the ability to humor is a sign of healthy frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex. Now it’s clear why girls and women are able to forgive a joker a lot and fall in love automatically.

Secondly, it creates the illusion that a cheerful person can easily solve problems. After all, laughter is the highest form of defensive reaction. Subconsciously, we know all this, but we confuse the ability to be witty and the ability to defend ourselves with humor from adversity. Although this combination also happens.

In turn, a smiling woman is a strong sexual signal for a man. This goes on from early childhood. A mother's smile is like a caress for a child. She smiles at me, which means she cares about me. And a funny girl, ready to laugh at any joke, is generally a dream. After all, with her you can literally feel like a giant of thought.

EVERYTHING REMARK

Dasha ZAVGORODNAYA: Why and who do we love?

There is no doubt: various pheromones and effects greatly decorate a person’s personality. But for as long as I can remember, I have fallen in love with men whose pheromones and effects left much to be desired. Yes, their pheromones were no good at all! Two of them smothered themselves in such colognes that they had to sneeze and blow their nose, the third always walked around slightly drunk and emitted only the exhaust characteristic of his condition. And, it seems, he didn’t wash often. With the “unity effect” we had a complete nightmare: they all dreamed of the top of the social ladder, and they perceived me as an annoying obstacle on the way to these heights. And yet they seemed unusually beautiful to me... The main word is “unusual.” There was something about these men that made you look at them a second time, and a third, and a fourth time. And fall in love. They had ordinary noses, lacked powerful muscles and a sexy beard. And they absolutely did not look like my dad! And they didn’t even look like their grandfather. Something else attracted me. Completely beyond science. I still can't understand why I fell in love so much. And why is love evil, and goats take advantage of it so often? Although it’s still good that science does not stand still and opens up new ways for us to like each other. I'll go buy myself some feminine shoes. Otherwise everyone is wearing sneakers and sneakers.

The external reflects the internal

“I fell in love instantly when I saw her huge eyes. Then - into everything else. We've been together for 3.5 years. Happy (me at least). The relationship is awesome. And we are artificially dogging. Dear ones scold, well, you know..."

le-himique.

I had been on the construction team for several days already, and now a new “portion” of students arrived. The door opened and the new guys looked into our girls' room. I saw only HIM - my future husband. Fell in love at first sight. He says so too. We dated for two years, then got married. Married 17 years. I don't know why I fell in love then. Most likely, he really liked the look. Tall blond with blue eyes. Then it turned out that he was terribly smart.

Natalia_veselaya:

Our brains are programmed for certain signals. In general, nature has given the prerogative of choice to women, so in fact it is they who choose who to fall in love with. Men also have preferences, but they are so contradictory! Most women have very similar ideas about the “ideal male”. While for men it’s all about taste. This one likes them skinny, this one likes them plump. But they want to fall in love with someone who, it seems to them, is capable of loving them herself.

There is such a concept in psychology - “imprinting”. This phenomenon was first discovered by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz while observing animals. The first moving object they see in the first hours of life is imprinted in their minds as the image of their parents. So, he mocked the ducklings. Instead of a duck, he walked past them with a pillow. And the ducklings obediently went for the pillow and began to consider it their mother, but did not react to the real one.

In humans, the imprinting mechanism is activated during a crisis transition period. Some external image is imprinted as an ideal partner. This becomes a setting for a specific type, and that’s it! It's very difficult to beat her off.

In Ozhegov's dictionary

FEELING, -ah, cf. 1. The ability to sense, experience, perceive external influences, as well as such sensation itself. External senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste). Sense organs. Ch. pain. Part six (flair, intuition). 2. (plural in the same meaning as singular). A state in which a person is able to recognize and perceive the environment. To lose consciousness (faint, fall into unconsciousness). Bring, come at o'clock. Someone without feelings. (unconscious). 3. what. Emotion, experience. Hours of joy. Parts of grief. 4. Conscious attitude towards something. Ch. self-esteem (self-respect). Parts of humor (the ability to see and understand funny things). Hours of debt. Parts of responsibility. H. new. 5. Same as love (1 value). First part. Big part. Gentle part.

Other emotions that people also experience every day

Let us list those sensations that relate to negative emotions. List:

• Disappointment is the unjustification of expectations by the real state of affairs.
• Boredom is the absence of things that are worth, wanting, or interesting to do.
• Envy is a passionate desire to own an object that another person owns.
• Jealousy is a form of envy that is directed at social interactions.
• Sadness is the experience of unfavorable external or internal situations, mild depression and confusion.
• Depression is a decrease in enthusiasm for activity and activity in general as a reaction to disappointment or an unfavorable event.
• Sadness is a more severe form of sadness, it is more pronounced and lasts longer.
• Despair arises when the usual picture of the world and the principles of interaction with it suddenly becomes irrelevant.
• Anger is the strength of personality to solve a problem in the present moment.
• Disgust is the highest degree of dislike, an acute desire to have nothing to do with the object, even to the point of being near it.
• Contempt is a negative feeling towards a person or group of people who have shown themselves to be so unworthy that further joint actions are either impossible or disgusting.
• Condescension is the perception of another person from a position “from above”.

• Anxiety is anxiety that usually occurs before an important event.
• Awkwardness is a mild form of shyness, which manifests itself in the feeling of being inappropriate and clumsy in some situation.
• Anxiety is worry that does not always have a clear cause.
• Worry is a form of worry about something that a person is unable to fully control.
• Fear is a reaction to a threat in the near future.
• Sadness connects a person with unfulfilled expectations, that is, it connects a person with his past. If in the past a person had some kind of expectation that should have been realized, but was not realized, then the person will experience sadness.
• Horror is the strongest manifestation of fear of something that cannot be understood, explained, or controlled.
• Resentment is disappointment in another person as a result of a discrepancy between his actions and expectations.

• Guilt is the feeling that human actions have led to an unfavorable outcome.
• Shame is the fear of experiencing (in the sense of public display of emotions) or the experience of loss of social status in the eyes of others.
• Humiliation is an acute experience of decreased social status.

Feelings help people live, solve problems, but if a person blocks them, then this leads to the fact that people do not solve their problems, they live an incomplete life. Almost every person is afraid of something, but if fear becomes the basis of behavior, it begins to keep you in constant tension, while blood vessels and muscles contract. Fear attracts what a person fears most. Fear of loneliness leads to loneliness, fear of getting sick leads to illness, fear of loss makes a person lose something. It contributes to the fact that a person stops trusting the people around him and fences himself off from them, which gives rise to closedness and loneliness. To prevent all this from happening, you need to learn to trust yourself, people, events and your inner strength in this world. You need to expect only good from the world around you, and it will definitely come to life.

It is very important to be able to understand your feelings. After all, this is a human attitude towards things or people. Sensations are experiences that affect the five human organs: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and olfactory. Human thoughts influence emotions and vice versa, emotions influence thoughts.