What’s the Difference Between Your Moods and Your Emotions?

  They look the same, but they aren’t. Indeed, your moods and your emotions trace two similar yet different phenomena. The particularity that limits each dimension allows you to better understand your behavior, mental state, and way of interacting with your environment. After all, what you feel is everything. We could say that the main difference between moods and emotions concerns time. Emotions belong to your body and are the first to appear; they do so extremely quickly. Later, comes the mental representation of them, your feelings. Finally, a more complex phase occurs in which many of these feelings can…