Exercise 4 – Interfering thoughts

[Christina]

I love that. That sounds like such a profound experience! I am struggling with the idea of feelings vs emotions. I’m still not sure if feelings relates to body sensations or to emotions. How is it for you?

[PeterF]

Hi Christina,
this is a very touchy question 🙂 , and don’t forget, i’m not a native English speaker, so my answer may be a little “bumpy”.

For me,
Sensation implies our five senses. (Taste, Hearing, Sight, Smell, Touch). Sensations may create feelings.
A Feeling is felt, perceived with the body and in the body. It has a quality (good, bad, light, heavy, confortable, unconfortable, …)
I see an Emotion more as a psychological state. This psychological state may generate a feeling, or be generated by a feeling, and have an impact on our psyche and/or our body.

All this is reflection in progress..
Have a nice day !

[Anita]

Hi Peter,
Thank you for bringing this up…somewhere in Tarthang Rinpoches writings he brings this up….does anyone remember where?
Its very useful!
Anita

[Anita]

This is a great exchange…we will continue to explore in depth feeling and sensation as distinct from emotion. It is an important topic in Kum Nye and one, as future teachers, you will want to be very familiar with, as many will have questions about it.

[lkleahigh]

Just as Peter mentioned viewing the underlying sensation to an arising thought, I did this with an arising emotion. The emotion sort of dissolved into sensation/feeling. I have been applying this a bit outside of formal Kum Nye practice when I remember to as well.

[Donna Morton]

That is wonderful, Lisa. You may want to take a look at the article ‘An Introduction to Feeling and Emotion in Kum Nye’ under the Additional Articles tab.

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