Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that emotions are unconscious physical signals, while feelings are the stories we tell about them. A racing heart doesn't automatically mean anxiety. Recognizing the difference helps you avoid misinterpreting your body's cues.
I think you need to understand. All of us need to understand there's a difference between emotion and feeling. Okay? So emotions are these unconscious things that our body gives us. These signals that come from physiology and come from brain. And emotions are inherent, and they're not bad. And what they are is barometers to tell you that something's going on or something might be going on. Doesn't necessarily mean that there is something going on. Feelings, though, are what we take from that subconscious indicator that something may or may not be going on. And we wrap it in a story based on our past experience, our current mood, the way we feel, whether we're hungry, tired, healthy, or not, all those things. All of a sudden, we're building a story to try to make contextual sense out of what it is that we are emotionally processing in our body. The problem is, if you're unaware of that and you just think that when you feel your heart racing, it means that you're having an anxiety attack, or that it means that somebody's about to hurt you or something, when you feel a certain thing, that it means this every time, then you're. Again, you're re reacting to bad information from the weakest parts of your brain, right?
