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Feelings versus Emotions
So, what is the difference between a feeling and an emotion?

There are many long and complex answers to this question, most of them totally
incomprehensible. So, having waded through technical books on the brain, hundreds of articles
on psychology and physiology, spent hours on the internet in search of a simple, easy to under-
stand solution, we reverted back to the faithful old dictionary!
Feeling: an emotional state or reaction

Emotion: a strong feeling such as joy, love, anger or fear
Even the compilers of the worlds most respected dictionaries can’t distinguish between the two.

These are two different words. Whilst they may overlap in their meaning, it is important to be
able to separate the two distinctly, if we are to fully understand their respective effects on our
happiness.
After all the research is done, the answer seems to be a subjective one, a matter of your own
opinion.
A favourite conclusion is this.

An emotion is the actual experience of happiness, love, sadness, fear, anger
A feeling describes the actual changes that occur as a result of the emotion.