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There are three major reasons why we experience emotions. Emotions help to motivate us for action: Emotions help to organize our behaviour and set us in motion to accomplish a goal.
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Emotions can be signals or alarms that something is happening. •• Gut feelings can be like intuition—a response to something important about the situation. This can be helpful if our emotions get us to check out the facts.
Emotions can be signals or alarms that something is happening. • Gut feelings can be like intuition—a response to something important about the situation. This can be helpful if our emotions get us to check out the facts. • Caution: Sometimes we treat emotions as if they are facts about the world: The stronger
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Extreme emotions get you a lot further than trying to regulate your emotions. Challenge: Creativity requires intense, often out-of- control emotions. Challenge: Drama is cool. Challenge: It is inauthentic to try to change my emotions. Challenge: Emotional truth is what counts, not factual truth.
Judgmental myths about emotions (e.g., “Some emotions are stupid,” “There is a right way to feel in every situation”)? Beliefs that emotions and identity are the same (e.g., “My emotions are who I am”)? •• IF YES: 1. Check the facts. 2. Challenge myths. 3. Practice thinking nonjudgmentally.
WHY LEARN TO OBSERVE AND DESCRIBE EMOTIONS? Studies have shown that people who can identify their emotions move through depression faster. By learning to observe and describe your emotions, you learn both to be separate from them and also to accept them so they don’t distress you so much. In order to better regulate your emotions,
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Jun 12, 2022 · The Experiencing Emotions worksheet helps you reflect on the nature of an emotion, build an understanding of it, and be ready to share your feelings. Think of the last time you experienced anger, sadness, upset, and fear. Use your answers to describe the emotion to a real or an imagined person. How would you begin? What would you say next?
