When you eat, what comes first: the feeling ("I feel hungry"), the thought ("It’s lunchtime, so I should eat") or the behaviour ("I just walked past the cupboard and now I have a handful of peanuts. How did that happen?")? How do thoughts, feelings and behaviours influence each other?

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