Feeling: I feel so angry about the lack of obedience of my children.
Thought: I feel that my children disobey me because they are teenagers.
Whenever you can substitute the word “am” in a sentence for the word “feeling”, it is, indeed, a feeling. I ‘am’ so angry about the lack of obedience of my children.
Whenever you can substitute the word “think” for the word “feel” then you are expressing a thought. I ‘think’ that my children disobey me because they are teenagers.
The word “feeling” is often misused in this way.
Another hint for judging your own speech on feelings and thoughts — if the word feel is followed by the word ‘that’, it will express a thought.