What’s the difference between emotions and feelings?

Understand the difference between emotions and feelings to manage personal and social challenges effectively.

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Understanding the difference between emotions and feelings might seem like tiny details, but getting to grips with understanding the difference can seriously impact how you navigate your thoughts and interactions. It's like uncovering a map to your inner landscape, making it easier to manage what's going on inside your head and understand others better too. Understanding Emotions and Feelings Emotions are biological states triggered by neurophysiological changes associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. They are often unconscious and can be universally recognised like joy, anger, fear, and surprise. Emotions are primal and link...
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