Thoughts and Emotions

 Have been trying to figure out about the nature of thoughts and emotions.

Thoughts are ideas or happenings occurring in the head which drives our actions. They are a rational conclusion happening in the head to stimuli coming from the body. 

Emotions are those happenings in the body which are usually products of sense organ's stimulations. There are various theories of emotions. Anatomically it's the limbic system and prefrontal cortex of the brain which controls emotions. The hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala and hippocampus makes the limbic system . 

The neural pathways reaches the emotion centers of the brain  before they they reach the thought centers. Hence usually emotions occur before thoughts. However there are different theories which mention that for emotions to appear the sensory stimuli first have to be assimilated, processed and labelled. So cognitive changes need to occur before emotions appear.