picking out any painful or distressed feelings behind the questions or issues.”30 Habermas analyzes emotional doubt: What and how we think greatly influences both our feelings and our behavior. The result is that the most prominent influence on our emotional and volitional struggles is not the painful things that happen to us in life, but what we say or think to ourselves concerning these things in our lives.… What we tell ourselves about them is the most significant factor in our emotional lives.