OK, I found some quotes that I will share, but I can't site my source as that goes against DB rules. I took this from a John Voris site. 2 paragraphs I found interesting:

- "Learning the difference between feelings and emotions is crucial in understanding ourselves and initiating personal long-term change. Experts in many fields of behavior agree that our deep feelings come from an unchanging belief about life that holds our identity together, while our emotions are purely physically based, subject to change and are basically reactions to life events."

- "As the objects in your world produce emotions within you, those emotions are collected in the subconscious and begin to accumulate. This is especially true when similar events are experienced repeatedly. Ultimately, they form an emotional conclusion about how to live life and, more importantly, how to survive physically and mentally in a world of chaos. When this happens a feeling is born. In this way, emotions serve as a sort of, “feelings factory.”"

So what I am gathering this much is that while both can change, we do not have control (influence) over them both. I cannot change my emotional response, however as I go through life the way I feel about things will change. As we make different choices in general, we are more able to mold and thus influence the way we feel.

Thoughts?

“Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.” – Nelson Mandela