How to Distinguish Between Thoughts and Feelings

You have to know how to differentiate between your thoughts and your feelings in order to make the appropriate choice. If your mind keeps nagging you to call your friend (thought) but your body doesn’t want to (feeling), then why would you? It’s been said that our greatest intelligence lives within the cells of our entire body – not just our minds. So we need to listen to our feelings just as much as our thoughts.

Knowing this, it becomes easy: What does your body say? Listen to that first, and then check in with the reasoning of the mind. There’s got to be a reason why there’s resistance to calling your friend. What we tend to do, however, is ignore this resistance and call anyway. I’d say, wait until you feel like it. Don’t override your body just because you don’t understand its signals (or maybe you absolutely understand them and you’re just being defiant).

Please note: sexual feelings are not applicable here because too much of the time we mix up our emotions with our feelings and if our bodies are feeding off our emotions, then our feelings won’t always be accurate.