Feelings in life and in communication.

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FEELINGS IN LIFE

AND

IN COMMUNICATION

"Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion" Victor Hugo.

As Victor Hugo said it is really difficult for people to express emotion and it is especially hard when we want to express our feelings through the language. However, all people feel and show emotions from time to time. Some of us can express them openly; others repress it - they cannot or will not express them. According to Bernstein, there is evidence that both repressing and expressing our feelings too intensely can be dangerous, not only for our health but also for mental condition.

To talk about ways of showing feelings and using the language during that process, first we have to establish what "emotions" are. Calling emotions, such as love, anger or fear is really much easier than giving their complete definitions. To tell the truth not all scientists accept existing definitions of particular feelings. However, most of them agree that emotions are different from rational thinking (recognition), information collected through senses (perception) and knowledge stored in our brains (memory). Although feelings are believed