Emotional brain first, logical brain after? Or vice versa?

I'm guided by both, but the logical side kicks in first.

Sometimes I don't really know how I feel about something until days later. It's kind of weird...

Now that would be weird to me. I think I get more bombarded with emotion. I may not be able to pick out the core of it for a while. If that makes sense. Uhm....like...I get really angry over something and it may take me a couple of hours or a day to figure out that I am angry because..blah blah blah. Then..that anger might have a core of hurt. So....I guess mine are pretty complex sometimes, or layered? LOL! Are you really confused now?

POKE

In my case, it's buried deep down, but I know something doesn't feel right and I figure out what it is and why it is later.

Where do you start though? Feel the emotion and then go with a logical solution? Or work out the solution first and then the emotion hits you?

Oh dear, I hope your laptop didn't take it personally.:-)

Hmmmm not to sure as it is not doing what I want it to do right now

My friend Lee, who never had trouble with her computer, always told me I had to talk nice to it.

I had tried that but the stupid thing still did not work, I even apologized for being so blond and downloading this stupid Software when I am normally so careful but nope the silly thing was stubborn and stayed non working

Dang, I really would have thought the apology would have fixed everything.

Lol nope the Laptop would not accept the apology what soever

Sad, but maybe you need to bribe it with a memory upgrade or something!

No the Bribe was get the Operation System back on lol

Behave and I'll let you live? Or I'll get you medical treatment and then you'd better behave?

It had the Medical Treatment yesterday and to stay in Hospital for a couple of hours

Well I hope it feels better soon!

That's what I do too, but the emotional part isn't really a conscious thing. The emotional reaction just often doesn't hit me until later.

NObody's perfect, and you can not make everybody happy.

True.

but we have to take into emotional considerations our family first.

First before yourself? Or first before everybody else?

50% for me and 50% for my family

That makes sense, because you need to take care of your family, but in order to do that, you also need to take care of yourself.

do i get a point now?

5 points and some chocolate cake!

ok that was sweet of you.

Any time!:-)

Separated at birth?

Sounds rather like me on all counts. Logical approach to a crisis, overwhelmed feeling when somebody asks me to tackle something new, emotional response to something or somebody that makes me happy. Maybe I'm not so logical after all. lol

Actually, the logical kicks in in unpleasant situations. I need to deal with them first, feel them afterward. Maybe it's a defense mechanism.

"the logical kicks in in unpleasant situations" That has caused me to think (ouch!)

I'm trying to decide what my reactions were during the 22 years of abuse. Were they logical or emotional? If they were logical, they were lying. I believed I was so evil that I deserved it: I thought it was normal. If they were emotional, I was not conscious of emotion. I think I was void of emotion. Was it my "acceptance" side? (how many sides are there?)

Now you have me thinking more . . . . .
If my reaction then was logical, and also false, how reliable is logic?
Maybe that is why I can't follow some people's logic!
So is that also true of emotions?
Evidently. Emotions often lead to problems, so how reliable is emotion?

Where does that leave us?

Confused?

Emotions can lead us astray. Logic can lead us astray. Both can be based on wrong assumptions, possibly caused by bad experiences. For example, fear and inability to trust due to a past betrayal may lead us to refuse to trust somebody who is completely trustworthy. Logic can fail us if it is based on incorrect assumptions. I don't know how possibly it is for somebody who has been emotionally damaged (and hasn't worked through it to some kind of a "healthy" state) to make a sound emotional choice. Or for somebody who has been taught a bunch of falsehoods to reach a truly logical conclusion when the falsehoods are the basis for their line of reasoning.

But I do think most people, if they use both together will come to the correct conclusion - for them.

OK so now the problems of the world are solved, we can get on with life?
No more hard thinking?

Oh, I wish. Here I go, walking over to the lake with a chocolate bar and I'm going to just watch the geese until it's time to go home.:-)

Hhhmmmm I hope the geese behave themselves.
We don't want you learning wrong behaviour and getting wrong ideas.

If it is a dark (very dark) chocolate bar, or if it is just dark with ginger bits, you could send me one too. There is a kookaburra sitting on my clothes hoist, so I'll watch it while you watch the geese. (One kooka on its own can't get into mischief)

No fair, I have to go to the zoo to see a kookaburra....

Dark chocolate with ginger, hm, intriguing, must investigate.

Just another reason to come visit . . .

Will you let me sing the kookaburra song?

Of course - even off key.
In fact, I'll sing it too, and when they laugh at us we'll laugh with them.
They laugh at me most mornings.

:-)
Holly has to come too!

A trio is even better. Maybe the two of you will drown me out - better still.

Thanks for including me!:-) I guarantee that I can probably drown you out! lol But, I've forgotten the kookaburra song--somebody's going to have to remind me.

I think Dawn probably means "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree-ee" but we could just burst our sides laughing like the kookas. That is fun. I've done it with a bunch of teenagers.

yeah that's the one but I'll have to learn the words over again...

I remember now! But, I'd be happy doing the laughing too--do they laugh back at you, when you laugh at them? And do they allow kookaburras to wander the grounds of the local "funny" farm, as that's where we will surely wind up when they cart us off...

The same (?looks the same?) kookaburra is on my clothes hoist every morning, so I wonder if he/she has a nest in one of our trees.

We have beautifully coloured parrots and other birds here, but I think the nice, plump kookburra is more beautiful than any. They are so different from other birds.

Sorry, but I've never had one laugh back at me. The ones at Australia Zoo are quite tame, but they just look back at you wondering what sort of loony you are when you try to imitate them.

Don't worry about the funny farm. We are a weird mob anyway - didn't you know?

Got galah?

Mostly Rainbow Lorikeets - but if we three are standing there laughing, we'll have three Galahs too.

:-)

Interesting. I can't even imagine being in sync like that. I'm analyzing the problem and he's all hot an bothered.

We might be better off if we were to balance each other a little more, but we've been together so long, it's just another thing we're used to.

Sometimes I could do with a little being in sync...

Hmmm... Is the grass ALWAYS greener elsewhere?

maybe, but then there's the saying, that most people, if given a choice between their problems and somebody elses problems would choose their own...

Absolutely!

Sweetie--you're too big to fit in the sink any longer, anyway.;-)

Huh???

sync - sink - good one Holly!

ha for all you know I'm a little person...

Sorry about the lame joke--thank you Cloud for coming to my rescue, as it did appear out of context, since it was so far down in the box.:-) Cobrateacher probably thinks I've lost my bloomin mind--well, she wouldn't be the first! lol

Dawn--I know you may want to think you are a little person, but I've seen your pix--5'8", isn't that little. Or at least not little enoough to fit in any sink I've ever seen.:-)

I fit in the big round sink, the one next to the shower. Not so much the ones up on the counter...

Why yes, that is an advantage, come to think of it. Those expressions can be quite priceless sometimes!

emotions first, then logic?

Mine is an emological brain, that's why emotions always come first...

Ooh, must go Google big word. Um, is it a real word?

I love the way you goto Google:) Well I had made it up for myself. But definitely it's real for I found it on urban dictionary. I am not THAT emological!

I didn't find it

It's useless to try and react in a way that's uncomfortable for you!