Difference Between Emotions And Feelings?

[Wind]

What's the difference? What's the difference in your direct experience?

The best conceptual model I found is that emotions are physical states arising from body's responses to external stimuli and feelings are mental experiences of body states, which arise as the brain interprets emotions.

And from what I empirically observed emotions are felt in the body while feelings are something felt as a mental state.

Emotions could be: anxiety, fear, compassion, unconditional love, sadness, pain, sorrow, yearning, joy, etc. 

And with feelings a little bit more difficult: focus, conscious, sleepiness, tiredness, boredom, the feeling of thinking, the feeling of experiencing other sensations in your mind?

Could emotion be experienced as feeling?

[Toby]

I would say feelings are more like sensations and emotions are interpretations of feelings, but I'm not an expert.