We often talk about emotions in more basic terms, such as disgust, joy, sadness, and anger, but of course it goes deeper than that. When talking to others, it helps to have the words to express the…
Any why “righteous indignation” is healthier than “anger.”
Thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are linked cyclically. Better understand the cycle, and use emotional granularity to work toward noticing, accepting, becoming curious about, and allowing for your emotions!
Any why “righteous indignation” is healthier than “anger.”
For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (; ) as a framework ...
Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word for the feeling of rightness we get when we’re able to escape the architecture of civilized life. It’s an emotion associated with an expansive, unconstructed experience of time and space.
“Emotions are not your reactions to your world. They are how you make sense of what’s going on inside your body in relation to the world.”
In my opinion, there are primary emotions and secondary emotions. The primary emotions are the core pillars, the basics. Emotions such as madness, sadness, and happiness fall into these categories.…
When our 16-month-old stopped sleeping through the night, my marriage became a battleground. It started shortly after the holidays. After all the houseguests had gone home, instead of an anticipated…
It’s been an emotional few weeks. I’m told it’s something to do with eclipses and mercury, and something bumping into something else somewhere cosmic I think. I don’t know – I just know I’ve felt it. But in that truly ‘rushing woman’ way many of us like to adopt as a lifestyle strategy….I tried to […]
Any why “righteous indignation” is healthier than “anger.”
How can we read each other in the digital age? Get a look at how writers can gain a deeper understanding of emotions in order to improve storytelling.
Are You in Despair? That’s Good is the headline of a column in today’s New York Times that discusses a term I hadn’t heard about before using it to explain concept that I was very famil…
In English there's no single word to describe an anxiety about how much aeroplane flight is damaging our environment. But in Swedish the word for this anxiety is 'flygskam'. And perhaps, having a word for this specific emotion may change the way we think about it Come on our tour of culture and language to explore some strange destinations and untranslatable emotions.
Any why “righteous indignation” is healthier than “anger.”
“I hate emotions,” I texted a friend. In my early 20s I had feelings for a boy, or thought I did — one can never be sure, maybe. “Emojis are cool, though,” she wrote back. Her humor was enough to…
Not all the masks people wear can be tied on with a piece of string. People wear figurative masks as well, making deliberate choices to present themselves in a manner that seems authentic, but doesn’t match what they’re feeling on the inside.
Surrender is the emotion of letting go. In the feeling of surrender we abandon strategic plans for controlling the future and allow for something else to take charge.
Compersion is the emotion of pleasure in knowing that your lover has found love with someone else.
To meaningfully discuss the feeling of being burned out, it is necessary for us to acknowledge that often, our lives aren’t as lovely and under control as we often like to pretend. Burnout happens when we can no longer maintain the façade of life as it’s supposed to be, and the image we project for
While many people believe that how we feel and express anger is hard-wired, some scientists suggest our experience and culture help shape it. One way to get a handle on it may be to personalize it.
emotion wordsearch for pupils to learn lots of words associated with a main emotion. Great for being able to label and emotion.
By more clearly identifying our feelings or by recategorizing them, we can reduce suffering (yes!) and increase well-being, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Sadness is one of the most common and familiar of emotions, but it's certainly not basic. Sadness has many emotional associates, and hides itself in plain sight in the guise of defensive anger, protecting our vulnerabilities. What if we were to achieve a life without sadness?
When someone says Hollywood you immediately think of glamorous A-list celebrities. Whenever you see one of the rich and famous elite in a movie, magazine, ... Continue Reading »
Any why “righteous indignation” is healthier than “anger.”
