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Understanding the cause of emotions and see how they influence our thoughts and decisions
Understanding the cause of emotions and see how they influence our thoughts and decisions
Goals:
Goals:
- Pause, observe, self-reflect
- Recognize emotions in oneself and others
- Pay attention to cues in body and mind
- Recognize non-verbal communications in other people: face, body, voice, behavior
- Accept we can misunderstand non-verbal communications
Questions you can ask yourself when trying to understand your own feelings:
Questions you can ask yourself when trying to understand your own feelings:
- What just happened? What was I doing before this happened?
- What might have caused my feelings or reaction?
- What happened this morning, or last night, that might be involved in this?
- What has happened before with this person that might be connected? (In the event that your emotion has to do with a relationship.)
- What memories do I have about this situation or place?
Questions you can ask someone else when trying to understand their feelings:
Questions you can ask someone else when trying to understand their feelings:
- What might have happened to cause this feeling?
- What usually makes you feel this way?
- What's going on that you're feeling this way?
- What were you doing just before you started feeling this way?
- Who were you with?
- What do you need right now? What can I do to support you?
Understanding emotions and their linked causes
Understanding emotions and their linked causes
- Shame: Intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore, unworthy of love belonging, and connection. The focus is the self, and requires to believe that you are alone, e.g. I am bad
- Shame is highly correlated with addiction, depression, bullying, violence, eating disorders, and suicide
- Guilt: A judgement we make ourselves when we feel remorse or responsibility for something we did, usually something that feels wrong. The focus is behavior, e.g. I did something bad
- Guilt is inversely correlated with shame outcomes
- Embarrassment: Being caught violating some social norm. It is often fleeting, we know others have done similar things
- Anger: We are focused on someone or something external treating us unfairly/unjustly
- Fearful: We are alert to impending danger
- Jealousy: A form of fear—fear of losing someone important to you, especially to someone else
- Envy: Wanting something that someone else has. It could be a person, thing, a position, even a reputation
- Joy: Feels energetic and is caused by a sense of getting what one wants
- Contentment: Feels calm and is caused by a sense of completeness
- Stress: Response to too many demands and not enough resources
- Pressure: A situation in which you perceive that something at stake is dependent on the outcome of your performance like performing in front of a group or acing and interview
Activities
Activities
Understanding Emotion - Emotion Storyline
Understanding Emotion - Emotion Storyline
In groups, create an emotion storyline starting with either the least intense or most intense feeling words that were assign to the group.
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