moods, feelings - alive why

moods, feelings

there is a lot of angst that seems to go into
defining moods, feelings and emotions
these are just words coined by other humans after all
so why not just take the common understandings
moods most people would say
are emotion states that last a while
feelings are emotions defined by what they refer to
no need to wrangle over the issue

once an emotional state appears
it tends to color our reception of the world an ourselves
a bad mood makes the world and ourselves seem terrible
and vice versa

to suggest that we create these emotional states
as it appears lisa feldman-barrett does
suggests then that we can
deliberately call up
a good mood
or a bad mood ..
why don't we just call up good moods all the time then?
or is that not her thrust?