The Effects of Emotions on the Brain

Every time in life of really emotionally resonant event occurs that creates a strong feeling your hippocampus and medial temporal lobe store those memories unconsciously. For the rest of your life if anything in your environment reminds you of one of those emotionally stored memories it'll lead to the same process. So essentially each moment can be can activate a past memory sometimes for instance good things of the past can be activated. All these internal states called feelings are manifested by emotions and that's how and then finally thoughts arise so thoughts are very very very veryvery very late in the process.