Thanks for your comment.

Emotions and feelings are very different but as of the 1970s, they were not studied separately within the field of psychology. Apparently, they could not generate empirical demarcations sufficient to study.

However, cognitive manifestations of emotions are driven by our preexisting feelings. This enables us to spank a child through anger because we love them. The love is the sustained feeling antecedent to the consequent emotion of anger.

Biologically induced emotions are of course driven by our preexisting neurology.

For me, it would be hard to place emotions and feelings within the domains you mentioned. It does sound challenging and if you find an adequate solution, please keep me posted.

If you have another comments please don’t hesitate to communicate them.

Thanks again.

I have worked in the service delivery field for many years and I have tried to convey the vast difference between emotions and feelings on many an occasion.

There are four areas that I have studied and come to conclude that let us know we are experiencing an emotion versus a feeling, they are our cognition (thoughts associated with the event/situation),behavior(how we act out, i.e., tapping of fingers when we become angry, the heart throb from seeing an intimate loved one, crying re: a situation), physical (heart racing, headache, palms sweating) and finally (I drew a bland on the fourth one but I will surely come back with it). Each of these areas are red flag indicators that we are experiencing an emotion.

The difference between happiness and satisfaction is very debatable since happiness is actually a sociocultural term (product) of nurture that represents the satisfaction as biologically basic one.

This realization is why many claim that language creates our reality. While this is true, certain political groups object to this observation because it implies geographically determined mental limitations.

What they do not understand is the dialectic at work whereby each culture sees what the other does not.

No one is in a superior position. Geography forces specialization of linguistic descriptions for survival.

Understanding technical computer systems will not help me living in the Florida swamps.

First, thank you for your comment.

This chart is based on information that has been with us for several hundred years. In fact, Authentic System is based on leaving all conventional thinking and initiating a fresh exploration without bias. This approach has lead to new insights by re-connecting old ideas together then giving them a contemporary application.

Also, the foundation of European psychotherapy is far more advanced than here in the U.S. because we are still focused on the Aristotelian perspective. Europe left our structured approach in the 1960′s with Existential Psychiatry. With using this existential approach, definitions such as in this chart is far more accurate and consistent.

I wanted to apologize to you directly for not getting back earlier. As I explained to Dustin, we have had many changes taking me away from time to respond.

I hope my response to Dustin satisfies your curiosity.

I look forward to any response you may have as well.

John

Sorry for taking so long to get back. We have had many corporate changes. Thanks for your patience.

With the word “happiness” as we are using it here, there is no single focused cause.

Ask anyone if they are happy and they usually say; well, I guess so; yea, things are OK; sure I’m getting by etc. There is nothing specific.

When you ask someone why he or she is sad, there is always a very different response. This person will be able to identify the exact reason for their sadness.

Divorces, deaths, catastrophes and much more, can make any mentally healthy person sad.

Therefore, sadness is event driven and temporary, making it an emotion.

Keep in mind, sadness is very different from clinical depression.

I hope this has helped.

I look forward to any comment you may have.

John

After pondering your words for awhile, It hit me, naming creates meaning.

Before something is named by me, it is nothing to me and has no meaning for me. Everything in my life that carries any meaning for me, whatsoever, does so because I first named it, whether that something be a “physical” something or it is an “emotional or feeling” something.

That is some powerful stuff right there!!!