I was running/hiking/walking up the side of a mountain the other day. I was feeling especially motivated and it would be made clear that I
Emotions are powerful. While they sometimes seem beyond our control, as we begin to gain a greater awareness of our emotions, the events that lead to them, the thought process that is involved with them and the way they are elicited, we can begin to make changes to our environment and the way we think which will help us alter the automatic response that is associated with our emotional experience. While many emotional responses are a learned response from past experiences, we can change our learned response to be more inline with what we would like our emotions to be.
There are many theories of emotions, but one of the most widely accepted ideas in emotional response is that it often occurs first cognitively or as a thought, then as an emotion and then leads to action or behavior.