How do we create our feelings or emotional states?

You are not your thought, you can control it and guide your own life! (Eckhart Tolle)


In the article on why to look for a life coach (link) it was explained that life coaches work with the mindset of individuals. Our mindset or emotional state is influenced by our thoughts.

Mindset or mindset is the mental, emotional or physiological state and can be positive or negative. Some examples of emotional states include self-confidence, creativity, resilience, courage, curiosity, patience or fear, uncertainty, insecurity, resentment, and any negative state that prevents us from achieving what we want.

Emotional state is very much influenced by how we think, or “how we think” rather than “what we think”. Therefore, changing the way we think about situations in our life will consequently change our mindset or emotional state and our response or interaction with the outside world.

It is for this reason that when we have negative thoughts we perceive the outside world differently than when we have positive thoughts. It is for the same reason that faced with the same situation two people with different mentalities, for example confident and insecure, interpret and react to the situation differently.

This article briefly describes the structure of the experience and offers two real-life examples, an exercise, and a technique that we can immediately use to reinterpret our thoughts and potentially improve our emotions. The main topics covered will be:
• How do we form our feelings or emotions?
• How does our thinking affect our emotional state and our reaction or response - Structure of experience?
• Two brief real examples.
• Tool: Reframing - how to reinterpret.