Can we do emotions or do we feel emotions ONLY. . . ?

[Bill Hemphill]

Is love an act or only a feeling? Can we feel sad or can we also do sad?  Linguistics are  misused. What a better place to discuss the emotions than personality. Attitude and Ethos are the core of personality. Emotions are responses to our personality's interaction with society.

[A Strawberry Filed]

Is love an act or only a feeling? Can we feel sad or can we also do sad?  Linguistics are  misused. What a better place to discuss the emotions than personality. Attitude and Ethos are the core of personality. Emotions are responses to our personality's interaction with society.

I am guessing you are asking if we fabricate emotions or feelings. I don’t know much about the subject, but I will take an educated stab at it. 

The intermingling between Sensory receptors and stimuli is how we receive the information and then we interpret or categorize them into emotions or feelings. We use our Representational Systems like our auditory, visual, and kinesthetic systems to perceive or explore the environment.  It also has to do with chemical levels in the brain…. Again not knowing much about it and taking a stab, I would say it has to do with neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine levels.

So to answer the question I don’t think we can create a feeling, but we can evoke a KNOWN feeling or emotional state.  (Ex. Happy, sad, etc.) There are only a certain number of possible feelings because it is in our genetic makeup. The epigenetic perspective would argue that throughout our evolution we developed emotions to survive.

Cognitive perspective, on the other hand, would argue that we categorize and give labels to our emotions.  What fascinates me is that we (humans) are able to categorize or label our world.  Through this categorization we developed language and gave meaning to our world. 

You ask if we ‘feel’ or ‘do’.  We don’t ‘do’, but I think we do evoke. So, evoking would be more of a memory schema thing than the ‘do’ or fabrication.  We can choose to evoke and that is as close as it would get to the ‘do’. 

What I can do is ask people, ill send people this link that might have some insight.

What interests me more is your choice of words when asking these questions.
You have a question of love followed by a question of negative emotion, sadness.
“Is love an act or only a feeling?”
This tells me that you value actions more than feelings, ONLY has a negative connotation.  It presupposes that something is missing or it could be more. All of this followed by a question of sadness, makes me wonder what state of mind you were in when you wrote this…… wanna talk about it?
 

[Bill Hemphill]

A Strawberry Filed, I think you missed the point of my question. I am looking at linguistics. I don't value one over the other.

I am mapping the personality. To point out more than one feeling was only for linguistic examination. Sometimes by understanding the truth revealed in linguistics we can get to the core of something. NLP workshops exist, I have little experience in that field. But you cannot sad someone. Maybe you cannot "glee" someone.  Does it not take an action to love someone or hurt someone? Do we take a short cut by saying we hurt someone or love someone?

Did my actions cause the love or did my actions cause hurt feelings? Is love and sadness a feeling not an action?

[A Strawberry Filed]

Okay i had a feeling i was not understanding your question. What about neuro-linguistic programing, there are so many branches? NLP in regards to self motivation.  I have read a few books on neuro-linguistic programing and it ranges form self-motivation to manipulation linguistics.... courting.. i mean NLP is a big feild.

I dont know i think it would be the action that triggers the emotional responce, which would stem fom a social construct view.


Im likeing this conversation more and more Bill.

[Bill Hemphill]

I read some books by David R. Hawkins on Consciousness. He really pushes the "kinesics". He also goes on long ramblings about Love and how it is about awareness.

[Booch]

Nice conversation, you both seem to be well educated. I currently don't understand all of what you are debating; however, I still hope my opinion is useful =D

I believe emotions are strictly feelings, they can cause action, but are not action themselves; conversely, actions can cause emotions. 
For instance: The love you speak of, can be acted upon between two people who share the same feeling of love. The love itself takes no action, it is a catalyst for the lovers to act upon. They don't do love, they do each other (apologies for my lack of better wording).

Earlier you asked, "Did my actions cause the love or did my actions cause hurt feelings?"
I liked that question, because you can "Mad-Lib" the words 'love' and 'hurt' with any other feelings.
People can sense the emotions of others and these emotions can be projected onto people (through eye contact, body language, and other ways); thus, causing others to empathize with one's feelings. Through this connection the person who is on the receiving end of the emotion can feel any arbitrary emotion in response; the outcome is not a guarantee. It's based solely on the individual's perceptions.

[docjp]

Emotions are responses to our personality's interaction with society.

In your statement, I believe one must be cautious to not mistake this idea as suggesting that "society" "causes" ones emotions.  The vibrations generated by events outside of oneself can stimulate ones emotions, but the outside phenomena cannot "cause" ones emotions.  Ones emotions are set as part of ones Psychology for this life, as part of ones Fate Karma for this life.  Nothing outside of oneself can "cause" any emotion within oneself.  The exterior event can "stimulate" an emotion that already exists within oneself, but the exterior event cannot "cause" an emotion within oneself.

Subtle but crucial point that modern mental health tends to ignore by focusing entirely on intellectualism, and denying the Esoteric two-thirds of Man....which includes ones MIND realm, wherein all emotions exist.

[pert -5]

Ones emotions are set as part of ones Psychology for this life, as part of ones Fate Karma for this life.

So you are saying that every person is born with a set emotional pattern or repertoire and cannot deviate from said pattern through any agent of change?

  Nothing outside of oneself can "cause" any emotion within oneself.  The exterior event can "stimulate" an emotion that already exists within oneself, but the exterior event cannot "cause" an emotion within oneself.

Tautology?  I thought we're on psychology?

[Bill Hemphill]

To be responsible is to be in some type of control of our personality(structure).As that interacts with society emotions result. What the emotion is is not concrete.

[DamnedShadow88]

Is love an act or only a feeling? Can we feel sad or can we also do sad?  Linguistics are  misused. What a better place to discuss the emotions than personality. Attitude and Ethos are the core of personality. Emotions are responses to our personality's interaction with society.

When you ask a question like this the answer relies heavily on semantics.  That is, what we as humans statically define something in this world to be.  To find your answer you can simply just look up Love in the dictionary and see what it says.  Whatever you read SHOULD be what ALL humans think of it as.  Also, i believe, sad is a feeling rather than an action.  We cannot DO sad.  We can ACT sad though.  It's all just semantics.  Also your last statement should direct to all environment not just society =]

Something that is really interesting is how emotions actually come to be.  What physically happens in us that makes us desire to act a certain way in reaction to a stimulus?  What determines how you'll react?

[docjp]

Is love an act or only a feeling? Can we feel sad or can we also do sad?  Linguistics are  misused. What a better place to discuss the emotions than personality. Attitude and Ethos are the core of personality. Emotions are responses to our personality's interaction with society.

We do both, but what we experience is emotionality [the energy of the MIND] and what we act out is feeling, which is emotional energy converted into physical energy and thus, a stepped down emotional energy that is safe in that it does not expose the actual emotion for which the "feeling" is a venting activity.

Peace