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All emotions They are necessary and they have a function in our lives. The nice (calm joy, etc.) and the apparentlyunpleasant (sadness, anger, etc.) A few months before the Pixar film arrives in Spain From the Reverse 2 -opens in summer- to educate us in the exciting world of emotional intelligencewe recover this psychologist’s technique to learn to name emotions that we feel every day. “There are no positive or negative emotions, there are emotions that make us feel goodthey produce sensations that are comfortable, that give us well-being, that are pleasant, and others that, on the other hand, make us feel transmit discomfort, annoy or interrupt. But all of them are necessary and complete our human experience,” explains the expert.
2 questions to identify what emotions you feel
Identify emotions It is not easy but it is a skill that we can all train and, Daniel Siegel is he American doctor reference to talk regarding emotional intelligence. This world expert distinguishes between description and explanation in emotions. “Describe our emotional experience, how we feel, where we experience them in our body, means asking ourselves what, when, where and how. On the other hand, wanting to find an explanation for what we describe has to do with why,” explains psychologist Ana Gómez. And she adds: “At the brain level we also talk regarding two processes: that of description, which is carried out from our right hemisphereand wanting to find a cause-effect explanation through reasoning that allows us to carry out our left hemisphere“. That is, to identify an emotion we need to ask ourselves two questions: What do I feel? Why do I feel this way?
A trick and an exercise to identify emotions
- A trick to identify emotions: “You may understand emotions better if you can see them as messengers: What is the message this emotion is trying to give me? In addition to asking yourself why am I sad?, ask yourself: why am I sad?“explains psychologist Ana Gómez in Feeling better, loving me better.
- An exercise to identify emotions: Keep in mind that “in most, if not all, cases, we feel more than one emotion at a time. What’s more, although at first it may seem illogical, in the same situation we can feel and perceive both pleasant emotions and unpleasant emotions at the same time,” explains Ana Gómez. An exercise that she recommends to understand this reality is choose a specific situation and analyze it this way: paint a circle for each of the emotions you feel at that moment. “If the emotion was very intense and predominant, draw a larger circle; if it was not as prominent, represent it with a small circle.”
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