Thoughts and feelings

Your Emotions Don’t Have Intellect

Understanding this will give you all the control

When You Think, Your Emotions Respond

Your emotions don’t think. They do not have a mind of their own. They don’t know what to think unless you do. They merely follow your thoughts to stimulate feelings.

Without thoughts, there are no emotions. To feel happy, it takes a happy thought. To feel sadness, it takes a sad thought. Whatever you think, you feel.

To prove this, I did an experiment on my 5-year-old daughter today. When I picked her up from school, she was in a happy mood. I asked why and she said it’s because there was a birthday party at school and they had cake and lots of candy.

For experimental purposes, I asked if she missed grandpa — my dad — who recently passed away.

She suddenly became quiet and her mood changed. I asked what’s wrong. She said she’s sad because she misses grandpa. I said, “How?You were so happy a few seconds ago.”

She said, “Yeah, but I just thought of grandpa and now I’m sad.” Her smile turned into a frown.

Then happily, I said tell me all about the birthday party? How old is your friend today? What color was the cake? She thought of that and she was jumping up and down in excitement again, answering all my questions. Her frown turned into a smile.

She was happy because she changed her thoughts.

Then I did it again.

I said, “Hmm, I really miss my dad today.” She stopped laughing and got quiet. Again I asked what’s wrong. She said she was sad because she also misses her grandpa. Then I smiled and said it’s okay, grandpa is okay and hugged her.

Then I did it again.

I asked if the whole class sang happy birthday for her friend. She said yeah they did, and she was back to happy telling me all about her great day at school.

Whoever controls your thoughts controls you.

Whatever You Think, You Feel

This doesn’t just work with 5-year-olds. It can work with anybody. If you can see how this will work, it can be a game-changer for you.

Thought becomes things! They become the things you feel.

If you can control the things you think, you can control the things you feel. If you can change the thoughts in your head like I made my daughter do, you can change the emotions you feel like she did.

When you think peaceful thoughts, you feel at peace. When you think happy thoughts, you feel happy. You never feel angry when you think peaceful thoughts and you're never at peace thinking angry thoughts.

So, to master your emotions, you must learn to master your thinking. You must learn how to shift your thoughts when you know the emotions that will follow won’t feel good.

It only takes a thought to stop yourself from breaking down. If you feel sadness coming on, it only takes a change of thought to stop the emotion of sadness in its track. If you feel angry and you can quickly change the way you see things, the things you're looking at will change. If you can think a different thought, you can stop yourself from putting a hole in the door.

If you can control the things you think, you control the things you feel.

Whoever Controls Your Thoughts Controls Your Feelings

In the experiment I conducted on my daughter, I was controlling her thoughts, so I was controlling her emotions. At that moment, I was controlling her.

Whoever controls your thoughts controls you.

If your mother controls your thoughts, she controls you. If your partner controls your thoughts, he or she controls your feelings and, therefore, controls you. If it’s your boss, he or she rules you. If it’s social media, television, or the news, then it controls you.

This means that not everything you think belongs to you.

My daughter’s own thoughts were happiness. That’s how she was feeling before I came along. I put sad thoughts into her head and she reacted to it. This shows how important it is to understand that not everything you think is yours.

E.motion=Energy in motion.

When you’re doing just fine and you turn on the news and what you hear makes you upset, then you picked up emotion (energy in motion) that don’t belong to you. When you’re happy and your friend comes over and tells you something and now you feel down, you picked up energy that don’t belong to you.

If this happens often where you’re picking up all sorts of energy from your surroundings which then affects your mood, chances are you're an empath.

Conclusion

Emotions don't have intellect, but you do. You can have emotional intelligence so you can control your thoughts and emotions.

To have emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, master, and rule your own emotions. It's the ability to perceive thoughts and discern which are yours and which doesn't belong to you.

When you think of something that produces a highly charged emotion, emotional intelligence will help you first take the thought captive and then evaluate it before reacting or responding.

This allows you to hold your emotions back for a while so you can think more rationally about the situation before reacting.