Positive emotions list. Types of emotions and senses of man
IN last years Neurology discovered us a new point of view on the nature of emotions. Now scientists can accurately indicate which parts of the brain are responsible for specific emotions. In 2013, a group of psychologists published the results of the study in which they argue that they found a connection between certain neurons and human emotions. Scientists have determined the location of anger, disgust, envy, fear, happiness, lust, pride, sadness and shame.
Tiffany Watt Smith (Tiffany Watt Smith), researcher University of London, says: "We expanded the concept of emotions. Now emotion is not only a psychological, but also a physical phenomenon that can be traced in our brain. " Tiffany Smith in his "Book of Human Emotions" collected 154 precise names of different feelings from around the world. This book can be called "detail of emotions", because it describes a lot of specific sensations that you probably didn't even know. "When you give new emotions of the name, they are becoming not so terrible. It is easier to manage feelings when you know more about them, "says Tiffany Smith.
With Smith, strange things happened during the writing of the book - she began to experience emotions often with whom he had just met. Maybe she came across them before, but now they became easier to identify, knowing precise definition. For example, during the work of Tiffany, the influence of emotions called "Greng Jai", which means "unwillingness to take assistance from other people, not to disturb them once again," and refused the proposed assistance.
Below are the 10 most accurate words describing feelings. We warn you: having learned the exact name of the emotion, you will most likely experience it more often.
1. "AMAE"
To be adults means being completely independent. But sometimes I want someone to take care of you, helped with the cargo of problems and responsibility. The Japanese word "AMAE" means the feeling of complete confidence in the spouse, parents or oneself, which helps to flourish relations. Japanese Psychoanalyst Takeo Doi (Takeo DOI) offers the following decoding: "AMAE is an emotion that implies the love of another person to you as of granted." The emotion "Amae" is similar to children's love, it confirms another translation - "behave like an invoked child."
2. "L'appel du vide"
Did you have such that you are waiting for the platform train, and a thought suddenly appears in your head: "What will happen if jumping from the platform?" Or are you going on the car on the mountain road, on the one side of which breakdown, and feel a strange desire to sharply pull the steering wheel and fly into the abyss? In 2012, American psychologists published an article and called this feeling "phenomenon of heights", noting that it is not necessarily associated with suicidal inclinations. In the end, the French term "L'Appel Du Vide" chose for this emotion, literally meaning the "Call of Empty". This emotion causes a strong alarm, because we have a feeling that we do not trust our own instincts. There is no reason to be afraid, but it is not necessary to forget that you should not go on your emotions.
3. "awumbuk"
This emotion is associated with guests. When your home is full of guests, and all the hallway is littered with shoes and bags, you will unwittingly want it all sooner. But when guests leave your home, you feel empty. This feeling is known to everyone in Papua - New Guinea, so he appeared given name, "Awumbuk", translated - "The feeling of emptiness after the care of guests." Fortunately, the people who gave the name of this melancholic emotion, knows how to deal with it. When the guests go, the owners of the house leave the full bowl of water overnight, so that it absorbs "purulent" air. The next morning, the whole family rises early in the morning and pours water out of the cup into the garden, after which the usual life continues.
4. "BRABANT"
In 1984, the writer Douglas Adams (Douglas Adams) and producer John Lloyd (John Lloyd) jointly released a book called "The deeper meaning of life: a dictionary of expressions that are not, but they should be." Smith in this book found an interesting word for his work - she chose the term describing the situation when a person annoying someone is annoying to see when the opponent will end patience. Adams and Lloyd give the following definition: "This feeling, when I really want to know how much you can irritate a person."
5. "DEPAYSMENT"
Being in someone else's country, people often commit atypical actions for themselves. They can chat with strangers in the bar, although they never do at home. When you feel a stranger on a non-rigid earth, it worries you and disorient. For this mixture of emotions there is a French word "depaysement", or "be outside the country". Testing "Depaysement", you feel a stranger. Of course, you may be disturbed to get lost - after all, all the signs and pointers are written in an unfamiliar language, but the most painful is the realization that you are now far from home.
To demonstrate emotions, we will need this white cat:
The cat sits on the table and drops its paws from him all the items that put on his owner on the table. It can be said that the cat is experiencing "ilinx", the French word to describe the strange desire of meaningless destruction. Sociologist Roger Callois (Roger Callois) In explaining the word "ilinx" makes a reference to the practices of the ancient mystics, which with the help of chaotic dances were included in the state of the trance. Nowadays, this emotion can be experienced, succumbing to a momentary desire to create chaos and kicking the office basket for garbage.
7. "Kaukokaipuu"
People, for example, Irish origin who have never been in Ireland may experience a strange feeling - they miss the country associated with the ancestors that have never visited. In Finland, this feeling is called "Kaukokaipuu" - longing to the place in which a person has never been. In fact, it is a specific option for the desire to change places when a person is sitting at home and dreams of traveling to distant countries, for example, to New Zealand or in Hawaii, and the feeling is so strong that even comparable to nostalgia.
8. "Malu"
You consider yourself a man with confident social skills, but where do they disappear when you find yourself in the elevator with the general director of your company? Residents of Indonesia know this feeling well and gave him a name. The term "Malu" means a sharply emerged feeling of embarrassment and inconvenience caused by the presence of a high-ranking person. In Indonesia, an unusual attitude towards this emotion: it is considered absolutely normal and even talks about good manners. Therefore, do not worry, being in a similar situation the next time, your embarrassment is the indicator of courtesy.
9. "Pronoia"
In the book of Jerome David Salinger (J. D. Salinger) "above rafters, carpenters" one of the heroes, Simor Glass, exclaims: "Lord, if I really have some kind of clinical case, then I'm probably a paranoid the opposite. I suspect that people come into collusion to make me happy. " After 30 years, Sociologist Fred Goldner (Fred Goldner) gave the name of the opposite paralysis of the case - "Pronoia". This emotion can be described as a strange feeling that everyone around want to help you.
10. "Torschlusspanik"
Life passes. The end is approaching. In a literal translation from the German word "Torschlusspanik" means "fear of closing doors", that is, an unpleasant feeling that time is outcome. Crowding and avoiding the feeling of panic will help the German ideome "Torschlusspanik IST EIN Schlechter Ratgeber", meaning "Torschlusspanik is a bad adviser."
It is difficult for me to deal with my feelings - the phrase, with which each of us came across: in books, in the cinema, in life (whose or her own). But it is very important to be able to deal with their feelings.
Wheel of emotions Robert Plotchik
Some consider - and perhaps they are right, that the meaning of life in feelings. And in fact, at the end of life, only our feelings, real or in memories remain with us. Yes, and the measure of what is happening, too, our experiences may be: than they are richer than, more diverse, brighter, the more fulfiguous we feel life.
What is feelings? The simplest definition: feelings - this is what we feel. This is our attitude to one or another (objects). There is a more scientific definition: feelings (higher emotions) - special mental states, manifested by socioly determined experiences that express the long and sustainable emotional relations of a person to things.
What feelings differ from emotions
Feelings are our experiences that we experience through the senses, and we have five. Feelings are visual, auditory, tactile, taste and smell sensations (our sense of smell). With sensations, everything is simple: the stimulus - the receptor - the feeling.
Our consciousness is intervened in emotions and feelings - our thoughts, installations, our thinking. Our thoughts affect emotions. Conversely - emotions affect our thoughts. About these relationships Read more Talk to a little later. But now let's remember once again one of the criteria psychological health, Namely, paragraph 10: we are responsible for your feelings, we will depend on us. It is important.
Fundamental emotions
All human emotions can be distinguished by the quality of the experience. The most vividly this aspect of the emotional life of a person is presented in the theory of differential emotions of the American psychologist K. Isard. He highlighted ten qualitatively different "fundamental" emotions: interest-arousal, joy, surprise, grief-suffering, anger-rage, disgust, disgust, contempt, dissemination, fear of horror, shame-shyness, wing-repentance. The first three emotions of K. Isard refers to the positive, the rest of the seven - to the negative. Each of the fundamental emotions underlies the entire spectrum of states that differ in terms of severity. For example, as part of such a single-variable emotion, as joy, you can allocate joy-satisfaction, joy delight, joy-smoothness, joy-ecstasy and others. From the connection of fundamental emotions, all other, more complex, complex emotional states arise. For example, anxiety can combine fear, anger, guilt and interest.
1. Interest is a positive emotional state that promotes the development of skills and skills, the acquisition of knowledge. Interactive interest is a feeling of capture, curiosity.
2. Joy - positive emotion associated with the ability to fully satisfy the current need, the probability of which before it was small or undefined. Joy is accompanied by self-satisfaction and satisfaction with the outside world. Obstacles to self-realization are obstacles and for the emergence of joy.
3. Surprise - not a clearly pronounced positive or negative sign, an emotional reaction to suddenly arising circumstances. Surprise brakes all previous emotions, directing attention to a new object and can go to interest.
4. Suffering (grief) is the most common negative emotional state associated with obtaining reliable (or apparent) information on the impossibility of meeting the most important needs, the achievement of which before it seemed more or less likely. Suffering has the character of asthenic emotion and more often flows in the form of emotional stress. The most severe form of suffering is a grief associated with an irrevocable loss.
5. Anger is a strong negative emotional state that occurs more often in the form of affect; Arises in response to an obstacle in achieving passionately desired purposes. Anger has the character of a raven emotion.
6. Disgust - negative emotional state caused by objects (subjects, people, circumstances), contact with which (physical or communicative) comes into a sharp contradiction with the aesthetic, moral or ideological principles and installations of the subject. Disgust if it is combined with anger, maybe interpersonal relationship Motivate aggressive behavior. Disgust, like anger, can be directed towards yourself, while reducing self-esteem and causing self-arrangement.
7. Despite is a negative emotional state that occurs in interpersonal relationships and generated by the mismatch of life positions, views and behavior of the subject with such a sense object. The latter are submitted to the subject as lowlands that do not correspond to the adopted moral standards and ethical criteria. The person treats whom he despises.
8. Fear is a negative emotional state that appears upon receipt by the subject of information about possible damage for its life well-being, about real or imaginary danger. Unlike the suffering caused by direct blocking of the most important needs, a person, surviving the emotion of fear, has only a probabilistic forecast of possible disadvantage and acts on the basis of this forecast (often insufficiently reliable or exaggerated). The emotion of fear can have both a ram and asthenic character and flow either as stressful statesor in the form of a sustainable mood of depression and anxiety, or as an affect (horror).
9. Shame - a negative emotional state, expressed in awareness of the inconsistency of its own thoughts, actions and appearance not only by the expectations of others, but also their own ideas about appropriate behavior and appearance.
10. Wines - a negative emotional state, expressed in the awareness of the non-residents of his own act, thoughts or feelings and expressing in regret and repentance.
Human feelings and emotions table
And I also want to show you a collection of feelings, emotions, states that a person experiences during his life is a generalized table that does not claim to be scientifically, but it will help to understand it better. The table is taken from the "Community of Dependent and Considerable", the author is Mikhail.
All senses and emotions of a person can be divided into four types. This is fear, anger, sadness and joy. Which type include this or that feeling can be found from the table.
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And for those who read the article to the end. The purpose of this article is to help deal with their feelings, which they are. Our feelings are largely dependent on our thoughts. Irrational thinking often underlies negative emotions. By correcting these mistakes (working on thinking) we can be happier and achieve more in life. There is an interesting, but stubborn and painstaking work on yourself. You are ready?
It will be interesting for you:
P.S. And remember, just changing your consumption - we will change the world together! © Econet.
1. Psychological characteristics of the atmosphere of society
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2. List of major emotions and feelings
Positive
1. Pleasure
2. Joy.
3. Licacy.
4. delight.
5. Pride.
6. Confidence.
7. Trust.
8. Sympathy.
9. Admiration.
10. Love (sex).
11. Love (affection).
12. Respect.
13. Temperation.
14. Gratitude (appreciation).
15. Tenderness.
16. Comfortableness.
17. Bliss
18. Gloating.
19. Feeling satisfied revenge.
20. Calm conscience.
21. A feeling of relief.
22. Self-satisfaction feeling.
23. Feeling safety.
24. Anticipation.
Neutral
25. Curiosity.
26. Surprise.
27. Amazing.
28. Indeline.
29. Quiet-contemplative mood.
Negative
30. Displeasure.
31. Mount (sorrow).
33. Sadness (sadness).
34. Despair.
35. Calm.
36. Anxiety.
38. Fear.
41. Pity.
42. Sympathy (compassion).
43. Regret.
44. DOSAD.
46. \u200b\u200bFeeling insults.
47. Potion (indignation).
48. Hate.
49. Dislike.
50. Envy.
52. Anger.
53. Sadness.
55. Jealousy.
57. Insecurity (doubt).
58. Difference.
60. confusion.
61. Rage.
62. Despite.
63. Disgust.
64. Disappointment.
65. Immonation.
66. dissatisfaction with him.
67. Remought.
68. Conscience remorse.
69. impatience.
70. Borrow.
The feelings listed by us do not exhaust the entire palette, the entire variety of human emotional states. Here is a comparison with the colors of the solar spectrum. The main tones - 7, but how much we know even intermediate colors and how many shades can be obtained when mixed it!
It is difficult to say how much there can be different emotional states - but, in any case, there are immeasurably more than 70. Emotional states are characterized by high specificity, even if they have the same name with modern rough estimates. There are apparently many shades of anger, joy, sadness and other feelings.
Love for the older brother and love for younger sister is similar, but not the same feelings. The first painted with admiration, pride, sometimes envy; The second is a sense of own superiority, the desire to provide patronage, sometimes pity and tenderness. A completely different feeling is love for parents, love for children. But to designate all these feelings, we use one name.
The separation of feelings for positive and negative Made by us is not by ethical signs, but solely on the basis of delivered pleasure or displeasure. Therefore, the gloating was in the column of positive, and sympathy - negative feelings. Negative, as we see, much more than positive. Why? You can offer several explanations.
Sometimes the consideration is expressed that it is simply in the language of much more words expressing unpleasant feelings, for in good mood A person is generally less prone to self-analysis. We seem unsatisfactory to us.
The initial biological role of emotions is alarm, by type "nice - unpleasant", "safe - dangerous." Apparently, the alarm "DANGER" and "unpleasant" is more significant for the animal, it is vital, more relevant, because it sends his behavior in critical situations.
It is clear that such information in the process of evolution should get priority to information that signals "Comfort".
But what historically developed, it can be historically changed. When a person will master the laws of social development, it will change his emotional life, moving the center of gravity towards positive, pleasant feelings.
Let's return to the list of feelings. If you carefully read all 70 items, it can be noted that some of the listed feelings coincide in content and differ only in the intensity. For example, surprise and amazement differ only in strength, that is, according to the degree of severity. The same anger and rage, pleasure and bliss, etc. Therefore, some clarifications should be made to the list.
Usually feelings proceed in four basic forms:
1. Actually feeling.
2. Affect.
3. Passion.
4. Mood.
Definition feelings Given us above.
Affect - This is a very strong short-term feeling associated with a motor reaction (or with complete motionlessness - a stupor. But a stupor is also a motor reaction).
Passion Call a strong and long feeling.
Mood - Ensucting many senses. This condition is characterized by a known duration, stability and serves as a background, on which all other elements of mental activity occur.
Thus, if we consider surprise, we consider the amazement - this is the same in the most used feeling, but brought to the degree of affect (remember the final scene of the "auditor").
Like this, we call the rage brought to the degree of affect anger, Bliss - this is an affect of pleasure, delight - affect of joy, despair - affect grief, horror - affect fear, adoration is love, in duration and power has become passion, etc.
3. Option: List of major emotions and feelings
There is no final list of emotions in psychology or physiology. You can count more 500 different emotional states . In conversational practice, people often use the same word to designate different experiences, and their actual character becomes clear only from the context. At the same time, one and the same emotion can be designated in different words.
AzartBezmyatezhnostBezrazlichieBespomoschnost BessilieBlagodarnost BodrostVdohnovenieVinaVozmuschenieVolnenieVoodushevlenieVostorgVoskhischenieVysokomerieGnevGordostGordynyaGoreGrustDovolstvoDosada Drive pity Care, envy interest flattery Confusion ZanoschivostZastenchivost ZloradstvoZlostIzumlenieInteresIroniyaIspug Glee Slyness Admiring LyubopytstvoMolba MrachnostNadezhda NadmennostNapryazhenie, Alertness Calmness NegodovanieNezhnost awkward impatience ObeskurazhennostObida doomed concern mischief OmerzenieOskorblennost, caution Aversion otorop Detachment Detachment OtsepeneniePechalPlaksivost PodavlennostPodozritelnost Submission protectively Gust Poteryanyi superiority PredvkusheniePrezreniePrenebrezhenie PytlivostRadostRazdrazhenie Distraction , Confusion, larity sarcasmskorbucchkasmes embarrassed by the collectedity of the factors of the impactants of the rapidiaistetravoga Passionate audio-leading festivalness Denomination of the peacefulness of the sustainlessness of royalityAephorius Equalization Expaluctableness
However, some researchers believe that the main, elementary emotions are a bit, and the entire huge list of emotions are the designs of them of these bricks, they are something or another combination. So, for example, anger is a disgust plus aggression. And love is joy when Favorite (Aya) is near and sad when in separation; Aggression - in this case, this desire to be near; Fear - the fear of losing the object of love ... What emotions can be attributed to elementary? List of elementary emotions - controversial. Different lists of elementary emotions offer Isard,McDowelland other researchers.
IN gestalt therapyit is believed that elementary emotions of everything five : Mad - anger, aggression, disgust. SAD - sadness, sadness, suffering. Glad - joy. SCARED - Fear. Sexy - Pleasure, Nega, Tenderness.
All varieties of emotions are not converted only to elementary and composite emotions. Having a more complex and original structure - complex emotions. Light sadness, gentle gratitude, pride for success ...
Man received emotions, so to speak, by inheritance from his animals ancestors. Therefore, part of human emotions coincides with animal emotions - for example, rage, anger, fear. But these are primitive emotions associated with the satisfaction of organic needs, and some simple "subject" feelings. In connection with the development of intelligence and higher social needs on the basis of the simplest emotions, more complex human feelings were formed (but emotions were preserved).Thus, we distinguish emotion from feeling.
Emotion is more primitive, it is characteristic not only for a person, but also animals and expresses attitudes to the satisfaction of purely physiological needs. The feelings developed on the basis of the interaction of emotions with intelligence in the process of forming social relationships and is characterized only by a person. The border between emotion and feeling is not always easy. In terms of physiology, the difference between them is determined by the degree of participation of cortical and especially information processes.
Feeling is one of the forms of human consciousness, one of the forms of reflection of real reality, expressing the subjective attitude of a person to satisfying or dissatisfying his human needs, to the correspondence or inconsistency of any ideas.
Not all human needs are innate. Some of them are formed in the process of upbringing and reflects not only the connection of a person with nature, but also its relationship with the human society. Many feelings are so closely woven with the intellectual activity of man that they cannot arise outside of this activity. They require preliminary analytical work of thought to assess the situation. Without this assessment, the feeling does not occur. Sometimes it is necessary for such mental work a considerable period, and then the feeling arises with a big delay and, undoubtedly, being a fact of mental life, loses, of course, his biological role.
For example, if a person is not aware of danger, the feeling of fear does not occur, but much later, when the danger passed, a person can bother fear.
Sometimes a person does not immediately appreciate the meaning of words containing an offensive hint, and then with the intake comes a sense of insult.
It happens that a very long-distance recollection can again revive the old feelings, and the hot paint shame fills the face of a person who remembered his long-term act. This is the so-called emotional memory.
"Dissociation" of thoughts and feelings appears with age. In early childhood, the thought and feeling are still inseparable. Their separation is associated with the development of speech and consciousness.
Below we bring a list human feelings. It does not include higher social feelings, since their position among other feelings are special, and they cannot be put in one row with others. These feelings arise as a reaction to satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the highest social aspirations and needs that are subject to faster changes in the process. historical Development And they are very different in people who are brought up in various epochs in various public formations belonging to various public groups and classes.
We refer to the highest social feelings:
1) a sense of duty.
2) sense of justice.
3) Honor of honor.
4) a sense of responsibility.
5) feeling of patriotism.
6) sense of solidarity.
7) Creative inspiration.
8) employment enthusiasm.
There is still a whole group of aesthetic feelings:
a) the feeling of sublime.
b) the feeling of beautiful.
c) the feeling of tragic.
d) comic feeling.
The study of higher social feelings applies not only to psychology and physiology, but also to the field of social sciences.
Our list does not include such low emotions as hunger, thirst, fatigue and pain. These emotions are less than others are subject to change and evolution in the process of human social development.
List of major emotions and feelings
Positive1. Easternity
2. Joy
Z. Licacy
4. Delight
5. Pride
6. Confidence
7. Trust
8. Sympathy
9. Admiration
10. Love (sex)
11 Love (affection)
12. Respect
13. Uming
14. Gratitude (appreciation)
15. Tenderness
16. Smug
17. Bliss
18. Gloating
19. Feeling satisfied revenge
20. Quiet conscience
21. Feeling of relief
22. Self-satisfaction feeling
23. Safety sense
24. Anticipation
Neutral
25. Curiosity
26. Surprise
27. Amaze
28. Indeline
29. Quiet-contemplative mood
Negative
30. Displeasure
31. Mountain (sorrow)
32. Sadness (sadness)
33. Despair
34. Tosca
35. Care
36. Anxiety
37. Ozuda
38. Fear
39. Fean
40. Fear
41. Pity
42. Sympathy (compassion)
43. Regret
44. DOSADA
45. Gnev
46. \u200b\u200bFeeling insult
47. Potion (indignation)
48. Hate
49. Dislike
50. Envy
51. Evil
52. Anger
53. Sadness
54. Boredom
55. Jealousy
56. Horror
57. Insecurity (doubt)
58. Difference
59. Shame
60. Raspanicity
61. Rage
62. Despite
63. Disgust
64. Disappointment
65. Disagreement
66. Disadvantaged
67. Rassowing
68. Sweets of conscience
69. Impaired
70. Borrow
The feelings listed by us do not exhaust the entire palette, the entire variety of human emotional states. Here is a comparison with the colors of the solar spectrum. The main tones - 7, but how much we know even intermediate colors and how many shades can be obtained when mixed it!
It is difficult to say how much there can be different emotional states - but, in any case, there are immeasurably more than 70. Emotional states are characterized by high specificity, even if they have the same name with modern rough estimates. There is apparently many shades of anger, joy, sadness and other feelings.
Love for the older brother and love for younger sister is similar, but not the same feelings. The first painted with admiration, pride, sometimes envy; The second is a sense of own superiority, the desire to provide patronage, sometimes pity and tenderness. A completely different feeling is love for parents, love for children. But to designate all these feelings, we use one name.
The separation of feelings for positive and negative Made by us is not by ethical signs, but solely on the basis of delivered pleasure or displeasure. Therefore, the gloating was in the column of positive, and sympathy - negative feelings. Negative, as we see, much more than positive. Why? You can offer several explanations.
Sometimes awareness is expressed that it is simply in the language much more words expressing unpleasant feelings, because in a good mood, a person is generally less prone to self-analysis. We seem unsatisfactory to us.
The initial biological role of emotions is alarm, according to the type "nice - unpleasant", "safely dangerous". Apparently, the alarm "DANGER" and "unpleasant" is more significant for the animal, it is vital, more relevant, because it sends his behavior in critical situations.
It is clear that such information in the process of evolution should get priority to information that signals "Comfort".
But what historically developed, it can be historically changed. When a person will master the laws of social development, then it may change his emotional life, moving the center of gravity towards positive, pleasant feelings.
Let's go back to the list of feelings. If you carefully read all 70 items, it can be noted that some of the listed feelings coincide in content and differ only in the intensity. For example, surprise and amazement differ only in strength, that is, according to the degree of severity. The same anger and rage, pleasure and bliss, etc. Therefore, some clarifications should be made to the list.
Tags: Meditative exercises and techniques, emotion management, psychotechnics and exercisesHello, dear reader. In order to show the relevance of our today's conversation, I want you for a few moments to stop reading an article and answered the question: "What emotions are you in this moment Are you experiencing? "
Thought? Answered?
And now let's deal with what problems often arise when answering this question.
- Many people on such a question are as follows: "Yes, I do not feel anything particularly emotion, everything is fine." Does this mean that there are really no emotions? Or does this mean just that a person is poorly aware of his emotional state? The fact is that the emotions of a person is always experiencing, every moment of his life. Once they achieve high intensity, and sometime their intensity is low. Many people pay attention only to strong emotional experiences, and the emotions of low intensity do not give any significance and even they do not even notice them. However, if emotions are not very strong, it does not mean that they are missing.
- Another possible answer to the assigned question is: "Somehow I unpleasantly. I feel discomfort. " We see that a person realizes that there is unpleasant emotions inside, but which can not be called. Maybe it is irritation, and maybe disappointment or a sense of guilt, and maybe something else.
- Often, our question is in this way: "I feel that I have to stand up because of the computer and do business" or "I feel that this article may be useful for me." Many people confuse their emotions with thoughts and the desire to do something. Trying to describe your emotional state, they describe anything other than emotions.
Meditative exercise for understanding emotions
In working with clients, I often use a meditative exercise that helps better understand your own emotions. It is so effective that I decided to make an audio record in order for anyone could use this technique. The mechanism of action of the exercise is based on the relationship of emotions and bodily reactions. Anyone, even the most insignificant, emotion has its reflection in the body (read more about it). Having learned to listen to your own bodily reactions, you can better get acquainted with your emotions.
You can do the exercise right now. Here is a record:
After you learned what emotions are, and easily learned to describe your inner state, you may be interested in a deeper study of yourself. For example, you may want to figure out which positive sense can carry emotions, which, at first glance, are absolutely meaningless and even harmful. Read about it in the following
