The 17 types of feelings (that a person can experience)

If there is something that accompanies us from the moment we wake up until we fall asleep, it is the feelings we experience, all of them of different types and in different intensities. Feeling is the human condition that unites us the most and at the same time, that makes us unique.

In fact, feelings can be the great drivers of many of our decisions and the way we live. However, it is not always easy to identify the different types of feelings we can experience. In this article we explain one by one the 17 types of feelings that exist.

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What are feelings?

We are sensory beings that, since we are born, we relate to the world and with people from the senses. The senses allow us to feel from a great multitude of stimuli that produce emotions. When we experience these emotions, our brain connects them with all those stories about experiences, projects and desires that we have lived, as well as with our value system and our state psychic.

All this that is triggered from emotions is what we call feelings, so we can affirm that feelings are a consequence of emotions. Before continuing, remember that emotions are immediate reactions that we have to different stimuli and there are 6: joy, sadness, fear, surprise, anger and disgust. What appears immediately after experiencing this reaction are feelings.

We can then say in a simpler way that all types of feelings are nothing more than those affective moods that appear before emotions and situations, and that become our compass to face our life and our relationship with the environment.

Why are feelings important?

There are three fundamental reasons why feelings are important and they have to do with the the way we relate to others and the way we show ourselves themselves.

1. Feelings are our own compass

As Jean-Jacques Rousseau said in this sentence: "If reason makes man, feeling leads him." Feelings are our point of view, our particular and subjective way of seeing the world and of linking ourselves to it. Everything we know, what we see, from people to information, we filter by the feelings they generate and help us interpret what we want, what we want, what is known to us or what we reject.

2. Feelings speak from our dais

Our feelings speak clearly of the state we are in at a specific time in our life, mentally, emotionally, socially, biologically, economically, and everything that has to do with us.

As we are talking about feelings, this indicator is subjective and different in each one of us, since the different types of feelings are specific to each person.

3. Feelings are what connect us with people

Through feelings we express ourselves, communicate and understand each other with others, because what we express is perceived by other people as an indicator of our state.

But in addition to this, feelings are what develop empathy in us, that which helps us to understand others, to get involved, to putting ourselves in someone else's shoes and reflecting on their situation, and ultimately, that which humanizes us and makes us vulnerable to the rest.

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The 17 types of feelings that accompany us

There are a lot of feelings that we can experience during our livesAll of them can take on different shades and feel with different intensity depending on each of the situations that arise.

We explain the main types of feelings, which can be classified into positive, negative and neutral according to the effect they have on us.

Positive feelings

The type of positive feelings includes those feelings that act positively in us, motivate us and improve our relationships with the environment.

1. Love

Almost everyone will agree that it is the most beautiful feeling that humans have and that he is capable of achieving the unimaginable and expressing the best version of ourselves. Love is the feeling of affection that we have for what surrounds us, be it people, ideas, animals or things.

2. Euphoria

That feeling that fills us with energy and gives us a boost mood in which we perceive life or a situation as something extremely wonderful.

3. Affected

That feeling we have when we connect with someone positively and we generate a link.

4. Admiration

The feeling that arises when we are able to see the best in someone or something.

5. Optimism

It is that feeling that invades us when we see life in a positive way and we face it in the same way, believing that everything always works out well.

6. Satisfaction

When a situation that has occurred ends in a positive way, or meets the objectives that we had set ourselves, we have a feeling of well-being that we call satisfaction.

7. Gratitude

We experience this kind of feeling when we value and appreciate what someone else has done for our well-being.

8. Liking

What we feel when we like something or find it pleasant.

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Negative feelings

These types of feelings are those that cause us a certain kind of discomfort and that can negatively affect our well-being. These are:

9. Sadness

It is that feeling we experience when we are faced with a situation that it is unpleasant and causes us discomfort, then we feel dejected, collapsed and we cry.

10. Anger

When we believe that something violates our rights and mistreats us, we have a feelings of irritability, anger, and disgust that we call anger.

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11. Hate

It is about that dislike for someone or something that we feel or experience with great intensity.

12. Indignation

That discomfort that we experience when something happens that seems unfair to us or who mistreats us.

13. Revenge

The desire we feel to hurt someone or to return a negative act that he had towards us. This does not mean that we carry it out, however we can experience this type of feeling.

14. Impatience

That feeling of discomfort that we have when should we wait for something we need now and immediately.

15. Jealousy

It's about that feeling that occurs in us when we believe that a person important to us may prefer another.

16. Envy

When someone gets things that we also want and yearn for, and that somehow we cannot obtain.

Neutral feelings

The types of neutral feelings are those that do not negatively or positively influence our behavior.

17. Compassion

It is that feeling we experience through empathy in which we understand the suffering of another being and we even want to alleviate it. It also happens when we understand the actions and feelings of others and do not judge them for it.