“Where Do Our Emotions Come From?”

What’s really responsible for our emotions, and how can we shift them?

Have you ever wondered, “Why do I feel the way I do?”

If so, you aren’t alone. I’ve been there too.

Which is why I searched for the source of them, and here is what I found.

Please keep in mind that this comes from my personal experience, I do my best to use actual scientific data to back my claims as well so your logical mind can make the connection.

She Finds The Root Cause Of Her Anxiety

I had a client who was experiencing a lot of anxiety and wasn’t sure where it was coming from.

She wondered if hypnosis would help her, I told her I was sure it would and we decided to give it a shot.

During her session, during the timeline regression portion, she went back to a memory of her at five years old inside of her house, alone.

I asked her why she was alone, and she said she wasn’t sure but she knew her family had left without her.

She felt really scared, understandably, she was five years old at the time.

So I asked her what she was thinking at that moment, and she said,

“I’m not important. They forgot about me.”

Clearly this was a core belief. It wasn’t unconscious, it was just unexamined.

Suddenly, her parents walked in the house (in her memory) and she said she started crying as she ran up to them to tell them she was scared.

This was her way of communicating to her parents, “Don’t do that again.”

However, instead of being met with love, she was told to go to her room for “Being a baby and crying for such little things.”

In this moment she learned that it wasn’t safe to be her, and that if she was herself she’d get in trouble.

This created the core belief: “I’m a burden.”

This belief made her fear expressing herself, so instead of expressing, she just suppressed her energy.

Over time this had built tons of fear and anxiety — and it was being maintained by the belief, “I’m a burden.”

Why am I telling you this story?

Because it demonstrates the answer to the question, “Where do our emotions come from?”

You likely know the answer now, but before I tell you what it actually is let’s break this down a little bit more.

A Simple (Yet Profound) Observation

If the above story didn’t answer the question for you, this will.

When I first started studying hypnosis, I went into it with the intention of understanding why humans do what they do.

Fascinated with human behavior, I wanted to help people change their behaviors, because if I could do that I could help them get what they want.

So as I studied behavior, I saw a common factor in every single action we engage in:

We always act how we feel.

Even if somebody says they are “fine” — their body language says otherwise.

In other words, we can’t act differently than how we feel.

So I started to study emotion, because clearly it’s driving all human behavior — and if I understood the root of it, I could accomplish my goal of helping people get what they want.

I would then monitor my own emotional state, and when I would feel it shift then I would turn my attention to see what I thinking in the moment.

And sure enough, if I was anxious, I was thinking fearful thoughts.

If I was sad, I was thinking sad thoughts.

If I was happy, I was thinking happy thoughts.

Clearly, all of our feelings are coming from our thoughts.

Happy thoughts create serotonin, the happy molecule, just as stressful thoughts produce more cortisol, the main stress hormone.

So, where are our thoughts coming from?

Where Do Your Thoughts Come From?

When I was searching for the source of our thoughts, it led me to an interesting fact.

“The average person thinks between 60 to 80 thousand thoughts a day.”

60 to 80 thousand?! Yup!

And guess how much of them you are actually aware of?

Only 1,200–1,800 maybe (On average).

Clearly our thoughts are running without our effort, so something must be supporting this constant stream of thought we find ourselves in.

What is it?

“…It’s Not The Other Way Around.”

If you pay attention to your thought process on any given day, you will notice they follow certain themes.

You have many streams of thought that you dip into on any given day depending on your emotional state.

When you’re happy, you have a certain stream of thoughts.

When you’re upset, you have another stream of thoughts.

These streams of thought are typically thoughts you think all of the time, meaning they are beliefs.

Beliefs are ideas that you accept, and they turn into thoughts that you continuously think.

Any constant group of ideas that you entertain about yourself and life is a belief, period.

Even things like, “I have always been like this,” “I am not able to do that,” “People are evil,” are all assumptions about reality, beliefs about reality, but not actual reality itself.

Are you following me?

Habitual thoughts are beliefs, because beliefs are thoughts you keep thinking.

So all thought comes from belief.

This must mean only one thing…

All emotions come from your beliefs.

It’s not the other way around.

If you believe it isn’t safe to be yourself (like my client did), you will think fearful thoughts, then you will feel anxious.

If you believe you are worthy of what you want, you will think confident thoughts and feel secure within yourself.

Again — your beliefs about yourself and reality are the source of all of your emotions.

You don’t emotionally respond to the world, you emotionally respond to your interpretation of the world.

The Science Behind This Claim

I wanted to bring some science into this article to again, help you logically make a connection (if you haven’t already).

It is now scientifically proven that the entire universe is just one big vibration of energy, and that energy contains two fields:

1. An electrical field

2. A magnetic field

Which produces what we know as electromagnetic energy, which is the “stuff” that the universe is made out of. Even the vast “nothing-ness” in between all of the matter we see.

Even we, human beings, are created by the same electromagnetic energy.

In 1863, the first detection of the magnetic field created by the heart was discovered by Gerard Baule and Richard McFee, and this magnetic field was being created by an electric current in the brain.

Therefore our brains and hearts are electromagnetic.

Each thought and each feeling is an electromagnetic reaction that has a direct impact on the atmosphere around you.

Since our thoughts are energetically charged, this means they all vibrate at certain frequencies.

And some thoughts are stronger than others — these are beliefs — the strongest thoughts one can hold.

These groups of ideas are highly charged, and they produce an electromagnetic energy that you experience as your emotions.

Emotions, on a biological level, are just waves of electricity and magnetism that is created by the electromagnetism of your thoughts and beliefs.

Your beliefs, thoughts and emotions are not isolated and separate phenomena: they are intimately intertwined together, along with your imagination.

Let This Reminder Bring You Much Freedom

You are not at the mercy of your feelings.

You are, instead, the creator of every single one of them.

You can create your own emotional experience by deliberately choosing your beliefs.

You are the creator of your entire experience, every aspect of it — including the emotional experience.

Change your beliefs, change your life.

(Click here to read my article, 4 Of The Most Effective Ways To Change Your Beliefs)