Feeling-thinking

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A second requirement for the development of compassion is empathy. Empathy is a recognition of a feeling/thinking state in another,/>/mj an ability to at least partially experience that same state in yourself. Thus empathy ties in with self-knowledge. To recognize that someone is depressed, for example, could be done in a cold, intellectual way. You could learn that certain facial expressions, body postures, and styles of speaking usually mean that a person is depressed. To also emotionally know what it is like to feel depressed from your own experience leads to the experience of empathy. This does not necessarily mean that you must feel as depressed as the depressed person you are empathizing with. 

Substances are chemicals that are smoked, inhaled, swallowed, injected, sniffed, absorbed, or inserted into the child s body, entering the bloodstream with varying degrees of rapidity, and ending up in the brain where they affect how the boy or girl feels, thinks, perceives, or acts. 

Consciousness, then, including perception, feeling, thinking, and acting, is a semiarbitrary construction. I emphasize semi-arbitrary because I make the assumption, common to our culture,... 

Conscious direction of attention towards an external object causes the object to be perceived by mind into the realm of fuzziness, which gives rise to a chain of perception, experience, feeling, thinking, understanding, knowing, and... 

The present state of an individual in terms of feeling, thinking, and believing is a critical determinant of personal success. 

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