Do Thoughts Create Feelings?
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- Do thoughts create feelings? In order to understand the link between thoughts and emotions, it’s important to know what influences our thinking.
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-- Do Thoughts Create Feelings? --
If you want to change your life, you’ve got to start with your thoughts… or so says every personal development meme ever.
When it comes to mind and emotion, the common assumption is that thoughts create feelings, which result in behavior.
But is that really true?
Do thoughts really create emotions that drive us to make decisions, either good or bad?
Well actually...no. Not exactly.
Because emotions and feelings are produced by your nervous system. And it turns out, you’ve got neurons all over your body.
What that means is that sensory data -- i.e. stuff you see, hear, touch, taste, and smell -- influences your emotions.
A lot of this sensory data bypasses the rational, thinking part of your brain entirely and goes directly to your emotional centers.
For every one neural pathway running from your rational brain to your emotional centers, there are two going the other way. What that means is that your conscious thinking brain is more narrating your experience than directing it -- finding reasons for why you feel and behave the way that you do.
This is such an important topic to discuss because there’s a lot of misinformation abounding about changing your thoughts to change your life.
Is it important to focus on positivity in your life? Of course.
However, if the sensory experience your body is having is one of threat and danger as a result of stored, unprocessed stress and trauma, then you’re essentially banging your head against the proverbial brick wall.
This is where people usually start to feel like something is wrong with THEM.
But there isn’t. I promise.
Your nervous system is working perfectly. We just need to intervene at a different level.
Watch this video for more about the link between thoughts, feelings and your physical felt sense.
#ThoughtsCreateFeelings #MindAndEmotion #HowEmotionsAreMade #SukieBaxter
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Sounds like c-ptsd (complex-ptsd). Also study the 8 cognitive funtions from jungian's analytical phsycoligy. The 8 functions are thinking, feeling, senses and intuition devided into introvert and extroverted decision making, awareness and behavioral cognition. Especially study the 4'th in the stack of ones mind, aka the inferior function of any individual. Bc that is exactly where the worst fears, anger, love or hate responses exist in a human mind when challenged.
What ever the cognitive function that are placed there is sensitive to critique or negative stimuli within that type of cognition.
Brilliant video! Really appreciate your content (only came by you yesterday) but everything you have said across all videos, especially this one, resonate and really fits with all of my many years of research - tbh it has taken your simple yet incredibly insightful / emphathetic approach to help me see the wood from the trees (as I was incredibly adept at seeing the trees, and knew there was a wood, yet couldn’t unlock what you have helped me to do - a case of over thinking, even when I thought I wasn’t!).
Carry on the superb work!
This woman is an untrained person who spews out random unscientific health theories. Back in the day, it was "Rolfing" and diagnosing everything as "renal fatigue". Now she has found UA-cam. Please do not take any health advice from this woman. She is a quack. At best the advice may not do anything or give you false hope, and at worst it may hurt you.
As someone with complex PTSD, this is why I hate CBT and why after years and years of traditional therapy doing nothing to help, somatic therapy was the first to actually help me feel less anxious. And ironically (at least, ironic from the frame of reference of traditional assumptions about thoughts and feelings) somatic therapy was the first to actually help me stop mentally beating myself up. All that focus on changing my thinking, and I couldn't stop the self-hating thoughts, but switch my focus to the body, to creating a sense of safety, and the self-hating thoughts just melted away on their own.
right, I feel you
Same with me
You probably had a bad therapist and/or needed DBT (more comprehensive)or an eclectic approach that didn’t just use CBT/DBT.
Very interested in undoing those hard-wired stress patterns from past. Do these techniques deal with injuries and old habits?
Hi, what is somatic therapy called? Just like that? How did you go about finding a therapist?
Through somatic breathwork I’ve learned that people don’t choose to get stuck in limiting patterns of thought. Rather, it’s a result of the nervous system or electric network of our being. When we begin to tone that and clear it, and are able to choose our focus and feel into good feeling places like our heart space, the thought patterns tend to follow and slow down, become more positive.
Yes......I love what you are saying. I've always been so frustrated at the single minded focus on the thoughts as the basis for so much. There are so many levels of thought. And so many traumatized people. This is great. Thank you for your work!!!!
You are so welcome, Ellen! Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.
That's exactly the reason why my neck and shoulders are so tense and hurt all the time and why I'm unable to relax fully. Growing up I never really felt safe. I am safe now. My brain knows that but my body hasn't gotten the memo. 🥺
Well, now it can 😊
Me too....but how can we change it??
I can relate
I completely believe this is what is happening to me bc almost everyone in my life has been or eventually turned into a threat and I have very few good experiences for my senses to base anything upon. I've tried all of the positive thinking stuff and stayed positive through it all somehow, and that didn't get me anywhere and definitely didn't stop bad things from happening. I find it insulting when people make claims that thoughts can change everything while also insuating that's the reason good things aren't happening to you or you can't overcome it all. Thoughts alone are not enough. I mean maybe for someone who is just in the doldrums or a funk, sure, but for people with trauma and abuse no way. Thank you so so much for this video!
I long ago heard that we do not feel our way into acting different but we act our way into feeling different.
Oh, I looooove this Don!
Thanks for this! I always thought that it doesn´t make sense to just "think" differently when there are intense physical feelings of stress. You feel what you feel, and thinking can´t change this - at least not when they are at a certain level. And I really think that your approach makes sense.
This is exactly what my therapist and I are working on in therapy! All of this information is so very validating!!!
Thank you. This further explains why I can't "out think" my panic attacks. I've been watching your videos lately and am finding them helpful thank you!
Brilliant explanation! Makes me think about conscious thinking and choosing to feel vs subconscious processing that elicits a feeling and response. Thank you for this insight 🙏
Thanks so much for your structural understanding of somatics and how changing our thoughts is not always as easy as one might think. I love that you are offering your knowledge as a resource. The more we can hear these kinds of things from intelligent resources, the more we can sink them into our conscious, and perhaps more importantly, our subconscious reality. So Grateful!
Yes, I hope this kind of knowledge becomes more common thinking. Thanks for watching, Charles!
Thank you Suki for explaining this incredible insight! The information processing through the rational brain is only one part of the story we tell ourselves to interpret events. As a Life Coach, I find this information very valuable in helping my clients to understand their challenges and obstacles in view of the bigger picture.
You gave an amazing perspective on how the mind processes decisions in a very enlightening way!👍
This makes so much sense. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Beautiful video! You look so cozy going for a walk on a snowy winter day.
Enjoyed the video and your style and content! However, I’m able to track with you better when you are in a static environment. The snow and walking are pretty but for some reason makes it hard for me to focus in on your content. Something about the motion and camera/background movement. Just my 2 cents. Thanks for all of your great work on these videos
Brilliant analysis as usual Sukie! Love the snowy walk and talk.
Thanks! The snow was fun! 🙂
Thank you so much for this information and for the example and to have that feeling of not to be safe but you are and it does not matter how much you tell yourself that you are. I just recently found you and you resonate so much to what I need at to know at the moment. I hope I can have som relief in my body soon.
Hi Sukie! I've really been enjoying your videos. Especially the vagus nerve video. I do the exercises one, or two times a day -and it has really helped. I've been diagnosed with PTSD and the exercises have really helped me to create a sense of calm. My body seems to be in a constant state of "fight or flight". Any links to other helpful videos would be most appreciated! Thanks so much!
Hey Donna! I'm so glad you're finding the videos valuable. There are many exercises on my UA-cam channel. You might want to give one of the Somatic Meditations a try as that's a great place to start ua-cam.com/video/yCMCKEeG29w/v-deo.html
Beautifully explained.
Thank you very much!
Really loving your videos Sukie. There so full of positivity and are extremely informative!
Thank you! Glad you like them 🙂
A great clip, just what i need. Thank you.
Thank you so much sharing this knowledge. It makes so much sense ❤
Hi Sukie,
thanks for your enormous effort. The background looks also amazing. If you don't mind, which Camera did you used?
Thanks again.
This is a breath of fresh air in the midst of people claiming thoughts->emotions is a simple one-way causality (as an irrefutable truth). I've been trying to get to the bottom of these claims in psychology literature, but I haven't been able to find a single study able to establish more than associations/correlations between thoughts (like positive/negative content of thought) and emotions; yet many therapists within the cognitive tradition still say it's a well established and understood causality. If that were true, it's a real mystery how the vast body of research supposedly showing this is so hard to find!
I think this primacy of deliberate thoughts is harmful, because it feeds a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"-approach to mental health, and makes people less concerned for others since it's assumed that poor mental health is just due to people "choosing" to think the wrong thoughts, and not because of anything they are going through or have been through, just how they "choose" to interpret it. So, if therapy based of this cognitive primacy doesn't work, people are just left with notions that not only do they still suffer from poor mental health, but they are also to blame for it for choosing to be maladaptive.
Wow! Great Video!!! You’re doing so much very needed good!! Thank you so much!!😄😄😄😄
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hello Sukie!! I'm a huge fan of your work. I've been watching so many of your videos. You are AWESOME!! I had a question: at around time code 6:10 you mention that "when we don't have the somatic markers of this emotional experience, it's impossible to make a rational choice". You also mention that we need safety and connection. People with trauma learned to connect and bond with people who were precisely the people who were not safe for them (for us). That's what's called a "Betrayal Bond" or a "Fantasy Bond". So I would add that when we don't have the somatic markers of healthy emotional experiences, it's impossible to make healthy emotional choices, which is why we tend to get stuck in repetition compulsion.
A long prelude to ask you: what kind of exercises do you recommend for this type of situation? Given the fact that this is a sort of physical-relational and emotional conundrum.
I hope my question wasn't too convoluted. I really would like your guidance with this.
Thank you very much for all that you do for us, Beautiful Humans- I love that expression!! It feels as if an Angel was talking to us, and in many ways, you are one- or at least an Ambassador of the Angels on Earth 😇
I literally was explaining this to my FB friends the other day. Thank you for validating my experience, AND giving me some science😉
Yay for validation! I love that you and your friend were talking about this.
fantastic stuff!!!!!!
This is a really helpful explanation for understanding why cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches were so unhelpful for me, before I knew I had trauma!
That's really great. I'm not opposed to CBT but I meet a lot of people for whom it fell a bit short. It's nice to have some explanation and validation about why that happens.
Best explanation ever!! Thankyou
Great and helpful videos thanks
Wow ..now I know why I got stuck in a place that was terrible but I couldn't step away.
good grief this is fantastic information. Thank you so much.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching 🙂
This makes complete sense. After meditating I have realised this too
Excellent work!
There’s so much to learn about the subconscious/unconscious mind.
Definitely agree. And so much we don't know.
You are truly an amazing human being thank you
Thank you Sukie. This makes so much sense and is helping me to deal with past trauma. I have been doing your exercises. I want to make long lasting changes.
That's great, June. Lasting change comes about from small, consistent shifts that accumulate day by day and help you to build new neural pathways. Keep at it. You'll be amazed at the change that's possible.
Great video. I'd like to hear one on anxiety how it can impact short term memory and how you can fix it.
Thanks, Tim, I'll put your suggestion on the list.
Just finding your videos now. Good job detailing-out the ‘feedback & short circuit loops’ that make understanding the causal interdependence of thought, feeling, sensation, emotional control, through the incomplete foundation that science has been developed upon in order to design actionable-therapies to control emotions, rooted in cognition.
FYI: In an unprofessional note: you appear to be a very wholesome, beautiful young woman who has strong beliefs & integrity with all that you will do in your life. Godspeed Sukie.
I cried watching this video, because my pattern and anxiety where explained. Since my burn-out I had panick attacks where I felt really out of balance (foggy and light headed). Now whenever I am to stressed my body picks up that signal and my brain starts to make me feel scared and unsafe, like a small panick attack. I used to rationalize it, but now I will do these exercises more often. I feel more relieved and calm already! Thanks.
Same. I would be convinced I was having a heart attack & would completely spiral. I'm still struggling a lot but doing better.
Your exercises really help relax the body! Thank you so much, you're wonderful 🙂
Thanks, Edgar, glad the exercises are helpful!
Oh wow this is awesome 👏
Hi, I am so glad I came across your channel. I was hit by a car at 7 years of age and suffered head and neck trauma. As you explained in your video the emotional trauma is something I have had to deal with and training my brain to feel safe. Your exercise videos have been so..so helpful and I bought the vagus nerve booked you recommended and its made such a difference to my exercise routine and the nerve damage I struggle with. Thankyou ❤️
I love this, Suzie. I'm sorry that you suffered an accident but am so glad to hear that you are well on your way to healing. Thank you for sharing your experience with me. I'm sending you all the love for your healing journey.
What book is that? :)
The last 23 years life is a hell for me ..
I went through a lot in the past and caused by that I have established an extrem Form of somatic symptoms ...tried everything but nothing helps .
My body is 24/7 extrem stressed ..it's like my stomach stuck upwards in my chest and my body isn't able to relax..my body adapted this as the new "normal* ..
This is affecting everything in my life ..
I live completely isolated and it's killing me ..I literally crave the touch of another human being ...
Since The last year I feel that it's affecting my brain more and more ..
I'm 46y and it feels like it's the start of dementia. ..
It's really scary...everything feels kind of the end ..it's such a long time I live with this shit ..but still all the years there was this hope and wish that someday it will be better ...someday everything changes...now over 20 years are gone ..like nothing,! Over 20 meaningless years filled with literally NOTHING and that last little Hope/wish is slowly fading away and turning into bloody reality ..
It's scary
Brilliant
Thank you
So helpful! Thank you❤
You're very welcome, Lena!
So pretty to see you walking in the snow ❄ 😍
Hi, Can you please please please make a video on depersonalization disorder caused by trauma. And why people struggle to get back to normal and what to do to heal it and come out of it.
I wonder, Sukie, if you could comment on the efficacy of EFT, tapping with regards to healing trauma. I use the technique, it does reduce anxiety in my experience, however, if I'm listening to a guided tapping meditation and the guide uses phrases that mention "safety" as a present state, my mind/body rejects the idea. So is tapping useful as a way to heal trauma?
wow visual cortex straight to the amygdala! this has to explain why I get triggered so quickly and didnt understand why affirmations didnt work
Thanks. I'm hoping your channel is going to help a lot. Looks like you're in B.C. All the best.
I love your videos, Sukie, but sometimes the outro music is too loud and too synthetic for me. However, the outro music in this video was lovely!
Thank you beautiful human 😍😍👍👍
Most welcome 😊
Thoughts.... Feelings..., Feelings.... Actions.......
Can't honestly say that I agree with what you say here. In my pathetic experience over the years, I have often found that the more positive my thinking, the worse things get in life. Seems like I always get precisely what I don't want instead of the good that I keep thinking/saying to myself. It goes something like this, "I have ______ such and such" "good ________ is coming my way" or whatever as the positive thinking videos tell you to say. But instead of these good things coming to me, they don't. Instead the precise opposite happens. Such and such does not happen. Instead it's opposite occurs. Dunno why but this has happened far too many times.
Thank you! So if I’m understanding this... this is why I am in a constant state of anxiousness even tho I try to tell myself/rationalize (and it’s true) there’s nothing to worry about. All is good. I’m reacting based on past experiences of what I think could happen?
Kind of. The reactions are based on processing sensory information that sparks a contextual memory of being unsafe. So, at the most basic level, if you were living in prehistoric times with a small clan of humans in a cave and you were out on a hunt, you might see or hear a small rustling in the grass nearby. Your sensory processes will respond long before your cognitive brain has a chance to think, "There might be a tiger there," and your nervous system will shift into an activated state to help you run or fight to stay alive. Our sensory systems are picking up on tons of info that slips right beneath our conscious awareness all the time. When there is trauma, the tendency is for your nervous system to hyper focus on sensory stimulus that feels dangerous or threatening (grass rustling) to the exclusion of all else. If your nervous system is in an activated state for a long time, ALL sensory stimulus starts to appear dangerous to it (this is a big aspect of what happens in cases of non-specific pain conditions, too). So the antidote then is to increase your physical awareness of non-threatening sensory stimulus. In short, it's not that you *think* you're unsafe, it's that you *feel* unsafe physically.
the idea of "the felt sense" was initially developed by Eugene Gendlin and can be accessed as part of a process called "Focusing".
Good to know.
Good
But what about intrusive thoughts? I have been mindful of them for 15 years and there has been no process that actually stops them fully
Hello and thank you for the video. Where abouts is the in the does the inner child speak from ? I know it’s the mind but is there a certain place? Like in the head ? strange question I know lol thank you
Do you have a book out?
Thank you for this video it is very insightful. Could you talk about breaking the trauma bonds I think that they have to do a lot about unconscious and body because when I think about breaking my bond I have a lot of unpleasent sensory feeling (I feel like a need to vomit).
Depends on what you mean precisely by trauma bonds. We always feel insecurity when breaking a connection to a person. Research has shown that the same pain centers light up when we experience rejection as when we have a physical injury like a broken leg. So any change in ourselves that threatens a relationship -- even a toxic one -- can bring about unpleasant feelings like stress and anxiety.
Will this help w/anxiety over blood pressure tests at the doctors office?
How does the work of Deb Dana fit into this work of cultivating a felt sense of safety via novel sensory input? Because her work seems so cognitive-based. What am I missing in terms of doing seemingly cognitive exercises like "mapping your nervous system" (even if it is with color) or "writing your ventral anchors" down? Is there a way for these seemingly cognitive/language-based exercises to cultivate a felt sense of safety?
Yes
I experienced parent abuse by my son. After 12 years, when occasionally talking about it, my body still gives the same strong reaction : totally frozen and 'stepping out' of the physical body. I wonder if these exercises can help to release this finally? Thank you.
Maybe I missed this, but from where you were heading with this video I was starting to think that perhaps affirmations aren't helpful, if thinking isn't really in control of how we feel. But I heard you say "keep doing affirmations." Is there brain research on how affirmations work? Thanks for your wonderful work!
Hey Betsy, I don’t think I said to keep doing affirmations (although you can if you want to). Can you point me to the part of the video you’re referencing so I can clarify? Thanks 😊
@@SukieBaxter I may not have been listening carefully. You mention it's okay to practice gratitude and do affirmations at 9:35. I just have a hard time with affirmations, and I was looking for information on whether they really help. Thanks again!
Please explain on social anxiety
Is this why I found CBT unhelpful?
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exactly subconscious needs to be taken into account. like I have an insane amount of trauma. its hard for me
Thoughts can influence feelings.
Thanks Sukie Baxter. One question I have is, What's the difference between a thought and a belief? Especially, a long-standing core belief that may be operating in the body, not just the mind. I believe you are talking about the Default Mode Network (among other parts) of our nervous system that operate underneath our conscious awareness. That's why meditation is so important to increasing awareness because awareness is psychoactive. Here's more information: scientificsounds.com/store/beyond
A thought is typically momentary. A belief is a worldview or a lens through which you approach reality. Both can be embodied.
I have heard that the amygdala is like a precocious 7 yr old, you need to reassure it the same way you would talk to a child. Would you disagree with that? You say you can't linguistically converse with these past conditionings. What about parts theory, and conversing with the parts that broke off at younger ages and created strategies that no longer support us in our current life?
I wish you were here ❤
🙏 a big hug from me, if that’s allowed 😉 🙏
How do you break this cycle?
Check out this video for some helpful insight ua-cam.com/video/WQumUZfwyEQ/v-deo.html
Why are you not making videos regularly mam,please make regular videos
I enjoyed your speech, however, changing thoughts and emotions is so difficult to do. Hopefully your next video gives us way more practical examples to overcome these challenges. Thx
6:15
Wait, if not affirmations, how???
Kindly add subtitles of your English speaking.. It will help people like us who face understanding the accents..
Typically like your videos so thank you. Did not like you walking and talking at same time.
Where are you? It looks freezing.
This is home. We rarely get snow so it was kind of a treat to go out and walk in it 🙂❄
what if you can't change the signal coming to my head without high tech science---rfi screening
You're going to have to explain that one, Mark. Not sure what you're talking about.
@@SukieBaxter RFI is a Faraday cage . I didn't anticipate or think you would read my message . we may be talking about 2 different things... but for me what you said seems to be a perfect explanation for what is happening to me ( and many others) . At my age it is much easier to be aware of the difference between what I'm thinking and what some other " spiritualist" is broadcasting thru my mind ....sound waves ( low level thought interruption )or radio frequencies ( high level thought interruption ) from cell phones etc , all have that similar effect . When I was on the west coast I successfully used copper screen to block those feelings that aren't mine so to speak ....unfortunately I can't walk around with a copper screen suit let alone jog . Does that explain it?
If someone is self prescibing by using marijuana from the street that is laced with God knows what, how does this affect the thought patterns within the brain?
No idea, Dianne. That would be a question for a pharmacologist.
CBT isn’t being properly understood and is oversimplified. CBT isn’t “thinking positively.” Thoughts in CBT are automatic thoughts. So you don’t think about them, they just pop up. Your thoughts and feelings work in tandem and are bi-directional, cyclical and situation dependent. All of this impacts behavior. CBT helps you to understand this flow and to understand the HOW of your thinking and feeling and its impact. CBT can help a person live a more healthy and balanced life. CBT doesn’t rule out the body; it tackles how (not simply the what) we think and how we respond to and feel about certain stimuli or situations.
In CBT, thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behavior are all interconnected. They aren’t separate. CBT deals with irrational thinking, feeling and behavior and allows the person to logically come to a healthy and balanced conclusion about the situation.
By understanding this, a person moves from irrationally based behavior to rational and healthy behavior. When you properly tackle irrationally based thinking and feelings, the physical sensations and behaviors associated with them will change.
I believe an eclectic approach or holistic approach works best for some and for others one form of treatment may work, just depends on the person and their situation.
95% of our feelings comes from our thoughts. 5% are automatic thoughts that mostly comes from our experiences in life.
The 5% can be taken care of with self compassion.
Hummm…..that is not quite it.
Where is the bix billón that you keep mentioning