The Importance of Belief

When you feel, say something intense, you may react with a sense of will. How does that become will or or let me ask you this. How might someone differentiate just an intense feeling of a situation, a person, whatever, from that intense feeling, plus the added belief in and here's what I'm going to do about it? That becomes a distortion, becomes a distortion of will. And then it's avoidance or seeking.