“Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.” FeelingsImaginationWorrySpeechAnxietyAbsolutesThreatReasoningUnconsciousAnxiousRepresentationExaminationSymbolicFacilitate Author:Willard Gaylin
“Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.” FeelingsEmotionWorstOppositesFeel GoodRemindersFeeling Bad Author:Willard Gaylin
“Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.” FeelingsDecisionPleasureAnimalGroupsFineShapesGoodnessSurvivalSafetyBlessedInstrumentsDecision MakingSignalsCursed Book:The male ego Source: The male ego
