[DMray]

Ok, so whenever I feel an intense emotion, i.e. powerful sadness, happiness, anger, hatred, joy, etc. I feel the feeling in my chest, like its really built up. Its in the center of my chest, about two inches lower than my heart. So I was wondering, is it possible to be feeling my soul, if not, what is it? Thanks for your help.

[nakiapet]

Maybe its heart burn :)

[jrebel7]

My belief is that we are made up of body, soul and spirit. The physical body, being the container for who we really are in soul and spirit, the soul, being the whole of who we are in our personality and nature and emotons and our spirit, that makes up our total being that seeks knowledge of God, direction from God when we receive Him into our lives and upon our passing, when our body dies, goes on to be in Heaven with the Lord, or to Hell. This is my opinion based on my experiences in seeking God, receiving Jesus Christ into my heart to be my Lord and Savior, and by faith, accepting what the Bible says about Salvation. It says we cannot do enough good works to earn Heaven. Eternal life is a free gift, offered to us, not forced upon us. We are free to chose our path. There are many discussions on spirituality on this forum and I am not intending for this to be a challenge to anyone's beliefs. I am simply sharing mine with you.

Our emotions, that well up inside of us trigger actions inside of our physical body. All factions of us, body, soul and spirit, are affected when we feel great emotion. I believe each part has a specific function. If we allow our emotions to control our body, it can be a great blessing in some cases to us and others but if we allow the negative emotions to control our body, after a time, we get highly stressed and it can affect our health.

What would we do without that wonderful emotion we feel when we are in love, or what we feel when we see the miracle of a newborn baby or hold a tiny baby chick or feel the wind blowing in our face or smell a fresh new rain moving in to our area.

The other emotions, anger, hatred, etc. also well up in us. It is a battle of the wills. We have choices and hopefully we choose to let go of the negative emotions or deal with them as needed and then let them go. They affect our heart rate and moods just as the positive ones do except in a negative way. Fear can grip us and our emotions shoot to the sky.

Emotions, which affect our physical body, go from 1 to 10 very quickly. Head knowledge tells us we don't have to be scared and goes back down from 10 to 1 quckly but our emotions float down slowly like a leaf in a swimming pool. What you are feeling, I believe is a result of whatever emotion you are experiencing which is part of your soul but I believe the soul is as I said, the total of who you are by way of personality, nature and emotions and what you are feeling is the result in your physical body of what your emotions are telling you that you should feel.

There are studies being done now that says someday, we will know what exact part of the brain is "Intuition", which now, most people would never say exists as a physical part of the brain. The doctor doing the study has always been about 10 years ahead of others in certain ideas and studies so this remains to be seen so who knows. Someday, someone may prove that what you state, is exactly where we feel the total of who we are when we feel great emotion. I think you asked a great question and appreciate having the opportunity to share my thoughts with you.