Mental vs mind

I think I feel similarly in this regard its as if my emotions are a completely seoarate entity from my logical and reasonable mind For instance I have very poor self esteem, and using my weight as an example, my logical mind knows that I am of a healthy weight and that it makes little negative impact on my appearance but my emotions violently disagree, they express disgust and a violent need to do something to what I feel is a very ugly body, even though myrational half that this is not a thought accepted by others

@aguaPapaya8649 I think this is simply how emotions work. Emotions not always respond to a logical pattern. We sometimes make the mistake of expecting our emotions to align to a rational way of being.

Truth is, we can't control what we feel. What we can control is how we react to that feeling, our behaviours. That is, when our emotions go through this 'logical filter' in which we say 'no, I shouldn't do this because blablah' or 'I shouldn't feel this way because blahblah'. It is not that we are split, we are still one person that feels, thinks and reacts. And at the same time our feelings, thoughts and reactions can be all different one from the other!

For example, I could feel sad because things didn't end as expected, I could think that it is still okay, that next time they will, and I could react very possitively smiling and hoping for the best. This doesn't change the fact that I would still be sad about the outcome, even though my reaction may be very a possitive one.

We have a body loaded with emotions and thoughts that sometimes go together as one and sometimes don't and dealing with that is, in my opinion, one of the things that makes us human.