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How do you think independently? (leminal.space)

submitted 3 days ago by big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mean, we all hear about people thinking what they think only because the people around them think it too. So how do you avoid doing that?

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[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is the theory that we feel emotions first and then we think only to justify the emotion.

This would imply that it isn't the thinking that needs to be managed but the emotions.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Although some feelings are malleable through thinking, but yeah, others come from (and can only be worked by) different places (including the health of our body).