Emotions are learnt in our world through experiencing feelings.

Have we ever stopped to think about how emotions play a role within our lives? When a person has a feeling within their body, a reaction to a causal event, they then create a set feedback in which to respond to the input they are receiving, this is called emotion. It happens everyday in our lives that when we have to come into face with situations or conversations, these experiences spark certain reactions within our bodies that can change the way we choose to handle the situation at hand.

Firstly we are given the natural feeling to an event. For example, if we were to walk across the street and fall over, there is an obvious pain that is felt through the body from the nerves within the area of the fall. This includes also the shock that the body gets from the initial fall itself. These are the feelings of the event, which are physically produced pain and shock incidents that the body picks up via the nerve system and the other physical senses. ‘Feeling’ is picked up by the mind but is purely based on physical events that take place.

The way we react to the event however is something very different. This reaction of emotions comes purely from the mind and how we order to cope with the incident through our consciousness. The mind itself is conscious that the event has taken place after the feelings are felt. It then decides how to handle the event via a system of ordered reactions that are learnt from past experiences. This would preclude that emotions are a learnt paradigm and that they are produced from experimental learnt reaction within our physical world.

Think about it in terms of a baby and how they react to pain events in their first year. If a baby has a fall often the shock of the experience makes them not know how to react. The reason they often do not first react fast to the incident and just look into space before they start crying, is because they are unsure what to do. They have not yet learnt the procedure for such an incident and how to react to their feelings of shock and pain through the nerves. They know though that when they cry that they get attention, so then after they go silent they then start to cry because of not being able to determine what to do in the circumstance of such an event. Then as we grow older we start to learn that when we fall if we cry it will not achieve anything, so instead we swear because it makes us feel better. We then learn a new emotional reaction in order to deal with the same situation at hand.

Most emotions that are learnt in our world come from our first experiences as a baby and from our childhood growing up. We play with emotions a lot in order to achieve desired results. We cry, yell and even laugh at certain events in order to achieve a way to get what we want. It is in a way an attention magnet, a way to get someone to notice you and feel compassion towards you. The only thing is that compassion too is an emotion and they soon learn to realize who they cannot manipulate over people who do not show the same level of compassion as does another. Emotions in this way are just really a manipulation device in order to achieve a desired result.

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