Feelings versus emotions: love and sorrow beneath the mind's labels

Frederic asks whether there is a difference between a feeling and an emotion.

The Wonders say his mind is usually what defines the feeling, while underneath lies an emotion.

Broken down, there is essentially only one emotion, love, with deep sorrow tied to it as a second; everything else is the mind's judgment naming these emotions as feelings such as love, anger or arousal, at which point it becomes expression rather than emoting.

They note that fear is usually not an emotion at all but an illusion of the mind.

Asked what exploring emotions means, they tell Frederic he thinks his way through logically and talks himself out of feelings that make him uncomfortable rather than delving into their root cause.

Their method is not to think but to let the feeling come up and then express it in whatever way describes it, even without proper words, for instance saying "I feel disconnected today"; others understand such expression, and it leads back to recognizing a disconnection from one's own love.

They give the example of a depressive state experienced only as tiredness and aches: expressing it non-logically connects one to the realization that it comes from not choosing lovingly for oneself, and from there to choosing change.

Otherwise one keeps acting without exploring, and the unacknowledged feelings return more strongly to be recognized, because a part of oneself is being denied for lack of love toward it.