Thinking about feeling

Feeling is just a strong signal sent to our brain coming from an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness (emotion) that forces an individual to act and do something. Such signal is very indefinite since it’s based on emotions, hence making the word ‘feeling’ an unquantifiable state of mind.

Sometimes knowing this fact makes people think more and feel less. Even I myself am guilty of that. Sometimes I try to analyze everything happening around me which results to me not participating in any of those things, which is happening around me.

Now I wonder, why do people tend to rely on their feelings? And why do people get affected by their feelings? How can they possibly put too much faith and decide while under an unstable, wavering and unquantifiable state of mind?