Feeling (as distinct from emotion)

Alexander distinguishes 'feeling' — the sense of being part of the ocean, sky, world — from emotions like happiness, sadness, or anger

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Feeling
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The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.
feeling as mode of perception of the whole
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Grasping wholeness not analytically but through a visceral feeling that arises when paying attention to the whole.
Feelings
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Salient vectors in the space of emotions and intuitions; percepts of emotion, physiological valence, and extra-intellectual evaluation of reality
deep feeling (unitary feeling of the whole)
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A singular, non-emotional feeling that arises from experiencing the wholeness; distinct from emotions. It is the experiential grasp of the whole.
Vulnerable Inner Self
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Alexander's term for the aspect of the self that becomes mobilized and connected to the world through personal feeling and living structure

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Feeling is a way of grasping the wholeness of a situation.claim0.857
Feeling (of wholeness)concept0.849
The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
Feeling gives us a feeling of what to do next in the unfolding of the whole.claim0.813
The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.805
Feeling is not an emotional move away from precision; it is a move towards precision.claim0.802
Feeling of life (intuitive perception)concept0.792
The subjective, often shared, impression that some things have more life than others—experienced with waves, lakes, gold, people, buildings.
Loss of feelingconcept0.790
The deadening effect of modern processes that prevent people from acting according to their feeling for the whole, damaging the global whole.
Feeling, in the context of the field of centers, is a fact — as much a fact as the radiation from the sun or the swinging of a pendulumclaim0.781
Asserts ontological parity between physical facts and felt qualities of living structure