Emotions

Emotions are complex responses that include experience, the body, assessment of the significance of a situation, and readiness to act.

Definition

Emotions combine a subjective feeling, body arousal, interpretation of a situation and a tendency to act in a certain way. They help you recognize the meaning of events, protect your needs, and communicate your condition to other people. They are not the opposite of thinking; they often contribute to decisions, attention and memory.

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Practice and life

When an emotion is strong, name it, indicate its intensity on a scale of 1-10 and ask what need or boundary it may be signaling.

Common misunderstanding

It is wrong to divide emotions into good and bad in a moral sense. A common mistake is to accept emotions as fact, instead of treating them as an important signal to check.

Questions for self-reflection

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