ABSTRACT
We now proceed to deal with the emotional side of the mind, leaving the intellectual processes for the time being. The difference between feelings and instincts is that the former are acquired, while the latter are inherited. The feelings are developed by the record of our thoughts, and represent the ideas that have held predominance in our minds. Grumbling thoughts, if long indulged, will inevitably produce a tendency towards a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction and complaint, as also will any other type of thought in its appropriate direction. As the feelings are thus acquired through the influence of thought, it follows that we can build new ones by re-directing and controlling the thoughts, while the old feelings can be prevented from growing stronger by a refusal to entertain them. There is therefore no finality about this matter, but, like the rest of the mind, this department also is in a continual state of growth and development.
