![]() Conversely, to gain specificity and broaden our emotional vocabulary, we may follow the opposite path, and go from the inner circle out. Travelling inwards to the inner circle, we can see that it’s a feeling that relates to surprise. If we’re unsure of what we feel, we might go through the outer ring and define we feel awe. To provide an example, let’s take a look at this emotions wheel: Using the idea of basic emotions simplifies the exploration of an emotion. The same is the case for fear and surprise. Out of these six, anger and disgust start in similar parts of the brain, separating into one of the two depending on how the brain cycles through the assessment of an event. Based on these two sets of evidence, I work with six basic emotions: joy, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise. In my practice, I integrate Paul Ekman’s reasearch as well as neurological research to help label and organize emotions. Multiple models exist (you can find two different overviews of theories of emotion here: 1, 2). The idea of core emotions isn’t settled in research. To facilitate this process, it can be helpful to talk about basic emotions. Research suggests that just the process of labelling emotions can reduce distress. At the same time, if we know what we’re feeling and how to interpret that information, we can gain access to our beliefs and needs.Īlso, when we hear and address our emotions, they tend to reduce in intensity or even disappear (which is different than repressing them). That way, we can integrate the full range of our meaning-making machine and use that to our benefit. By engaging our awareness, then, we’re using a fully connected brain to process our inner experience. We also learned that, if we pay attention to what happens during an emotion, we can eventually change the way we assess an event and how we respond to it. So, to recap, we said that an emotion is divided into different parts that happen quickly and automatically. ![]() I believe we all intuitively know that the more information we have, the better choices we can make, right? But what kind of information can emotions give us? That’s what I want to answer in this post by telling you about basic emotions, their meaning and their needs. ![]() In my last post, I told you what emotions are, according to psychology, and how they provide a wealth of information. The theme this year was “understanding our emotions” and, since that’s one of my favourite topics, I decided to talk about it all through May. If you remember, we started off the month with Canadian Mental Health Week (in the US it’s Mental Health Awareness Month, too).
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