Mike George
Well HOW ‘do you feel’ about that? In media interviews, in movie scripts, in our cappuccino conversations, we often hear the question, “How do/did you feel”. But it’s a question that usually means ‘WHAT’ did you feel? HOW do you feel is a separate issue. We all learn HOW to spell, HOW to wash dishes, HOW to drive a car, etc., but it seems very few of us learn HOW to FEEL! In fact it could be argued that no one learns HOW to feel i.e. how to consciously choose your feelings, because no one teaches us! Could that be because no one really knows?
And then there is another question, which sits between the WHAT and the HOW of feeling. It’s WHY do you feel what you feel! Once again it seems few people, when asked these questions, can clearly see the what, why and how of the one ability we all share as human beings, the ability ‘to feel’. Complicating things even further is what we call emotion! When we ‘feel emotional’ what are emotions exactly, and why are we… feeling them? Leer más