If You Want to Change Your Feelings, Change Your Beliefs

Psychology Today | 13.06.2026 03:27
We can think of it as a chicken-and-egg thing: You have feelings—anger, anxiety, jealousy, resentment, whatever—which then stir up all kinds of thoughts. Or, no, you start thinking about what someone did, and that stirs up anger, anxiety, etc. There are both camps; many people I meet in my office tend to see emotions as the driver—I do what I do based on how I feel.