Thoughts or Feelings? The Difference and Importance

One of the things I train my clients in is to distinguish thoughts and emotions. We tend to mislabel our thoughts as feelings, and this has consequences for our growth, healing, relationships, and society as a whole! Then I give a defense of emotions and intuition, showing how our modernist dualism has marginalized the other half of our God-given sense-making capacities.

#emotions #EQ #intuition #factsvsfeelings #understandingfeelings #understandingthoughts

There's a reason I'm talking about this after my last video on concupiscence (hint, hint): https://youtu.be/Sgr3eVjlr7g

For more on this topic:
What Are Emotions For? (Teaching students): https://youtu.be/p-k86zW2NwA
Polyvagal Theory Validates Reintegrative Therapy: https://youtu.be/jA9QuFlYd_c
Incarnational Counseling: Mindfulness and Christianity: https://youtu.be/affXzlIWqvs
Casting Your Anxiety on God: https://youtu.be/Fqb94uehyrY
Taking EVERY Thought Captive? https://youtu.be/J8NVVh2ZJIs
Destroying Victim Mentality (on emotional strength and resilience): https://youtu.be/IZwmnBsNpC4
The Importance of Individual Integrity (the cohesion of mind, will, and emotions): https://youtu.be/LDnJpWlOqlo
Conflict Resolution sermon: https://youtu.be/gnu_FbML7rE
Reconciliation sermon: https://youtu.be/pHgqPl9CWAc
Restore, Revive, Rebuild (Sermon addressing the two-story worldview): https://youtu.be/hs6ict6TWXU
Lost Ways of Knowing in Christianity: https://youtu.be/uoY4qJascmg
Theology of the Body Supports Transformational Ministry (Holiness and Wholeness): https://youtu.be/c6Qj_w6d_E8
God's Marital Passion through a TOB Lens (showing how Jesus was not stoic): https://youtu.be/wDdBl4DgipM

Timestamps:
0:28 Thoughts defined
1:58 Emotions defined (and their purpose)
6:23 Emotions are contingent
9:52 Importance of distinguishing them
12:02 Consequences of mislabeling thoughts as feelings
17:40 Check past videos (see the description)
17:57 In defense of emotions and intuition
20:09 Modern Gnostic dualism
27:06 Modernism..