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Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviours
We have been practicing naming emotions and figuring out purposes. Now we are going to explore thought, emotions and behaviours. These 3 things are often mixed up. For example, someone asks you how you feel and you answer, "I feel like people just don't understand me." This is not an emotion but a thought. We often mix up behaviours and emotions too. You might think it is not good to get angry, however, you are possibly thinking of the behaviour that often results from anger. It is okay to get angry, but not okay to yell at people or throw things out of anger.
How we feel, think and act often get mixed up because they are so closely connected.
The diagram below shows how your emotions affect our thoughts and behaviours; our thought affect our emotions and behaviour, and our behaviours affect our thoughts and emotions.
In every situation, we experience all 3 things- we have thoughts about it, we have feelings about it, and we behave in a certain way.
Add to the fact all 3 can happen very quickly, it helps understand why we often get confused! To help manage our emotions, we need to learn to separate these three things.
Lesson Part 1: Thoughts, Emotions or Behaviour?
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Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviour Worksheet
How?
Determine whether you are having a thought, emotion or behaviour is essential to being able to control our emotions and bring our rational brain back online when needed.
As a class review the difference between an emotion, thought and a behaviour.
Each student should individually work through the worksheet, and then discuss with a smaller group and move into a bigger class discussion.
Worksheet Answers: 1. T; 2. E; 3. T; 4. B; 5. B; 6. T; 7. E; 8. B; 9. E; 10. B; 11. T; 12. E.
Thougth, Emotion or Behaviour?.pdfLesson Part 2: Sorting Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviours
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Sorting out Your Thoughts, Emotions and Behaviours Worksheet
How?
This is where we get to practice real life situations and practice what was the thought, the feeling and the behaviour.
Brainstorm as a class some situations which made students uncomfortable or anxious. Example: first day of school.
Hand out the worksheet and work them through the agreed upon situations.
Then allow the students to fill in their own situation.
Practice a share out with a partner or a small trio to work on expressing how they feel and hear other peers point of views.
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