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Our happiness, excitement, sadness, fear etc are the work of hormones. Some organisms with feelings, had an edge over other similar organisms without it and their genes got an advantage in its survival and propagation. Think of a child of a human mother with feelings and another child of a mother without feelings. Guess which child is more likely to survive. The behavior which results in more chances of survival has more chances of propagation. Feelings give us a survival advantage and hence it is in almost all of us. The stimulus for our emotions and feelings is our surroundings. Our surroundings cannot change our mood directly. Feelings and emotions doesn't come from our surroundings, it come from within us as a response to our perceived environment.
For some people, some places or people radiate either positive energy or negative energy. What they mean is that, when they go to a place or interact with a person they feel good, happy or sad. A common place where people feel positive energy is when in a religious place. There they feel happy, they may feel they are suddenly at peace and they explain it as the feeling we get when being in a place filled with positive energy. They attribute their peace and happiness to the place they are at or to the people they are with.
People have a lot of things going on in their lives. They can have a pain in their knees, their spouse might be going away to some place, their children get into fights and many more things can happen in their lives. But when they go to a religious place they may feel they are transported to a world of joy, a world closer to god. Actually there they fill their minds with thoughts about god and in prayers and this let them distract themselves from other things happening in their lives. The thought about their pain in the knee is not going to get them to a good mood but the thoughts about god or praying might let them forget it. They stop thinking about bad things in their lives and concentrate on a different thing. They forget things that cause them pain. It reduces their anxiety and it is going to give them peace of mind. When we are at peace we are better able to generate our own happiness. Then a leaf moving in the wind or a cat jumping through a window can become our source of happiness. They mistake it for the positive energy filling the place or which someone or something radiate. We don’t need to make that mistake, there is no positive or negative energy