Before arriving to work in the morning, you’ll have processed 7,500 thoughts. By noon, that total will have risen to 22,000. Then as you’re falling asleep, you’ll have reached approximately 66,000 thoughts for the day. That’s about one thought per second. Thoughts aren’t just words floating in your head or spewing out in an effort to connect and communicate. Each thought is material. It’s an electrical and chemical event within the most complex structure in the known universe. From that mysterious formula, which science knows only so little about, comes emotion. Emotion is an immediate reaction. It comes from the limbic system deep in our brain. As we look at the event that spurred the emotion, thinking about what has happened and what it means for us, we form feelings from emotion. Feelings come from the abstract thinking happening at our frontal lobe. This is the distinction between emotions and …