What is a emotion? Generally people think of feelings/emotions as things such as happiness, sadness, anxiousness, fear, anger, jealousy, envy, love, hate.
Often people have difficulty expalining why they feel a certain way, which seem to appear involuntarilly. Thoughts on the other hand is made consciously and can be explained more easily
But to what extent is there really a difference between emotions and thoughts.
There are certain core 'emotions' which are shared among almost all animals, such as the feeling you get when you hear a sudden loud noise or something unexpected happens. This emotion has a purpose : to increase your alertness, and prepare your body for 'fight or flight'.
http://www.emotion.discover-your-mind.co.uk/1a-table-of-contents.htm
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