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The second and third are sometimes categorised together as bodily reactions, with the former being called visceral and the latter skeletal. This distinction relates
to the ANS and the central nervous systems (CNS) respectively. However, while running away is largely under voluntary (CNS) control, crying or seating
definitely are not, yet in all three cases we infer another persons emotional state from these observable behaviour.

(*The autonomic nervous system acts quickly (hundredths of a second) sending nerve impulses immediately to the parts of our body for reaction.)
(*The endocrine system (meaning, “inside secretions”) works through endocrine glands that secrete special chemicals into the blood system, affecting other
glands or the body generally. Dopamine excites and is involved in movement, attention and learning. Serotonin is released during arousal, dreaming, moods,
appetite and sensitivity. The endocrine system generally reacts more slowly than the ANS, in seconds or minutes, and has a more long term effect on behaviour).
Feelings then are sensations, the means by which our intuition conveys information to us about our inner and outer circumstances, such as conflict, turmoil, a
person or an event.
How do feelings work?

When we feel, our personal energy resonates with the energy of the event or person causing the feeling. This is similar to how our eardrums vibrate at the same
frequency of a sound we hear, enabling us to hear each sound. When we experience an event or interaction with someone, pleasant or otherwise, our bodily
systems record our reactions by generating feelings that have the same empathic resonance. Another example of this is when you strike a tuning fork in close
proximity to another tuning fork, the second will vibrate in resonance with the first.

Remember the chapter on energy? When you walk into a crowded room, filled with happy, cheerful people, they are vibrating at a collective frequency that
exerts influence on everything and everyone in the vicinity. Unless you have a high level of resistance, or are affected by some stronger vibrating trauma, your
body will receive signals of the happiness within the room and your nervous system will send signals to your body to resonate at the same level. You start to
receive those signals and begin to experience a sensation of empathic or sympathetic resonance. You are experiencing a feeling of happiness.
In this example, the emotion in the room was happiness. It exerted its vibrating influence and you felt happy.

Feelings are not the same as emotions
Feelings exist only in the current moment as a response to present circumstances. Emotions linger. Our nervous systems need time to disassociate from them,
particularly those emotions that affect our physiological state, the ones that cause muscle tension, surges and draining of adrenalin, changes in the heart rate
and breathing.
Feelings are subtle and light, so that we have to consciously listen for them. Emotions are more direct and can even be disruptive because of the physiological
effects.
Feelings do not release energy, they are a simplistic activity. Emotions have the distinct characteristic of releasing energy for use in choices such as fight or
flight or some other physical act.

Feelings are simply vibrations of energy. It is only our perception, interpretation and judgement of them that causes us to separate them as good or bad feelings.
When we interpret and judge feelings, we move into uncharted waters. When we try to judge a feeling, we obstruct their free flow by giving them a value and Page138
create uncomfortable blockages in our energy.