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    Understanding Your EMOTIONS

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    This document discusses understanding and expressing emotions in a healthy way. It defines emotions and lists basic emotions like happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy. While people can't control when emotions arise, they can choose how to handle them through responsible expression. Expressing anxiety, fear, anger and other emotions in unhealthy ways like yelling or bottling up feelings is not recommended. Instead, the document provides tips for expressing emotions and needs in calm, considerate ways through open communication and focusing on underlying issues. Understanding emotional needs like feeling worthwhile, loved and a sense of belonging can also promote emotional well-being.

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    Understanding Your EMOTIONS

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    This document discusses understanding and expressing emotions in a healthy way. It defines emotions and lists basic emotions like happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy. While people can't control when emotions arise, they can choose how to handle them through responsible expression. Expressing anxiety, fear, anger and other emotions in unhealthy ways like yelling or bottling up feelings is not recommended. Instead, the document provides tips for expressing emotions and needs in calm, considerate ways through open communication and focusing on underlying issues. Understanding emotional needs like feeling worthwhile, loved and a sense of belonging can also promote emotional well-being.

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    This document discusses understanding and expressing emotions in a healthy way. It defines emotions and lists basic emotions like happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy. While people can't control when emotions arise, they can choose how to handle them through responsible expression. Expressing anxiety, fear, anger and other emotions in unhealthy ways like yelling or bottling up feelings is not recommended. Instead, the document provides tips for expressing emotions and needs in calm, considerate ways through open communication and focusing on underlying issues. Understanding emotional needs like feeling worthwhile, loved and a sense of belonging can also promote emotional well-being.

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    Understanding Your EMOTIONS

    Uploaded by

    Wayne Bruce
    This document discusses understanding and expressing emotions in a healthy way. It defines emotions and lists basic emotions like happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy. While people can't control when emotions arise, they can choose how to handle them through responsible expression. Expressing anxiety, fear, anger and other emotions in unhealthy ways like yelling or bottling up feelings is not recommended. Instead, the document provides tips for expressing emotions and needs in calm, considerate ways through open communication and focusing on underlying issues. Understanding emotional needs like feeling worthwhile, loved and a sense of belonging can also promote emotional well-being.

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    The key takeaways are that emotions are feelings created in response to thoughts, remarks and events. Basic emotions include happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy.

    Emotions are feelings created in response to thoughts, remarks and events. Basic emotions include happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger, fear, anticipation and joy.

    Emotions can be expressed in healthy ways such as exercising self-control when feeling angry, calmly communicating feelings to others, and seeking healthy ways to express anxiety and fear such as exercise.

    Understanding Your

    EMOTIONS
    What are EMOTIONS?
     Emotions –
    – Def: feelings created in response to thoughts,
    remarks, and events

     Basic Emotions –
    – Happiness, love, jealousy, sadness, anger,
    fear, anticipation, & joy
    Understanding EMOTIONS?
     You can not always choose when an
    emotion will well up inside of you, but
    YOU CAN CHOOSE HOW TO HANDEL IT!

     People with good Mental & Emotional


    Health seek healthy, RESPONSIBLE
    ways to express their emotions

     Expressing Your Emotions


    Identifying Your EMOTIONS?
     Which emotions are familiar to you?
     Definitions –
    – Empathy:
     the ability to understand and share another
    person’s feelings
    – Anxiety:
     an overwhelming feeling of dread, much like fear
    Expressing EMOTIONS?
     People express emotions in different ways
    – We often learn how to express them by
    watching people close to us

     Learning how to understand emotions and


    expressing them in a healthy way is an
    IMPORTANT part of good Mental &
    Emotional Health!
    Expressing ANXIETY & FEAR
     Anxious & Fearful =
    – Shorter breaths, heart beats faster, muscles
    tense

     Too much anxiety & fear =


    – Lose of sleep or PANIC
     PANIC: a feeling of sudden, intense fear
    Expressing ANGER
     Unhealthy ways -
    – Yelling, hitting, threatening
    – Holding anger inside

     When you feel angry…


    1. Exercise self-control
     Take a deep breath and calm down
    2. Focus on exactly what made you angry
    Expressing ANGER Con’t
    3. Think of words to communicate your
    true feelings
    4. Calmly tell the other person who you
    feel and what actions has caused you to
    feel this way
    5. Tell the person what you expect from
    him or her in the future
    Understanding your EMOTIONAL NEEDS!

     Emotional Needs -
    – Def: needs that affect your feelings and
    sense of well-being

    1. The need to feel worthwhile


     Need to feel you make a difference in the
    world
     You are making a contribution
     Working toward a short/long-term goal = a
    sense of accomplishment
    Understanding your EMOTIONAL NEEDS! Con’t

    2. The need to love and be loved


    – Need to feel that you are cared for
    – You are special to people [family, friends,
    classmates, etc.]

    3. The need to belong


    – Know that others accept and respect you as
    you are
    – Find friends who are accepting, reliable, and
    trustworthy
    Meet
    EMOTIONAL
    NEEDS
    in
    HEALTHY WAYS!
    How do your friends help you practice healthful behaviors?

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