Dealing with Emotions

Emotions are interesting because everyone feels them, most people do not know how emotions take their curse and arguably no one really knows how emotions function. There are many theories aimed precisely at defining emotions and how they work but there is a lot of work to be done. An article posted in the New York Time’s website about a week ago explains a wonderful aspect about emotions and how people can utilize emotions to benefit their lives.

Emotions are used in our everyday lives help us understand and comprehend a situation. The way we feel can affect the way we think through a situation and the situation that we make. Our emotions are expressed when we play sports, when a loved one dies, or when we see our newly born baby for the first time. Emotions are a state of consciousness like joy, sorrow, fear, hate, and love. Whenever we are presented with a situation, our brain responds in feelings, and our feeling determine what will happen next.

Attempts to define “emotion” have proved to be rather difficult. Instead of searching for a comprehensive definition, Gross (2011) describes the three core features of emotions. First, emotions occur when an individual decides that a situation is relevant to his or her goals. Second, emotions are multi-faceted, and involve both subjective and physiological experiences, as well as behaviors. The third feature involves the authoritative nature of emotions. They have the powerful ability to interrupt ongoing processes, assert their priority over other activities, and force their way into awareness. For example, some traditions describe emotions as “disorganized interruptions of mental activity” (Salovey & Mayer, 1989). Emotions are such an

Emotions are a necessary part of our whole humanity. They may be more than we have learned to be comfortable with, but they are not too much.

People are shaped into individuals through many defining attributes – from the way we communicate and the way we express ourselves to a person’s morals and ethics. Coincidentally, these are all linked through one major omniscient trait – emotions. Emotions contain a wide spectrum of subcategories, but these can basically be broken down into the two elementary divisions: happiness and sadness. These ups and downs are crucial for people to be themselves; to have their own stories and experiences to tell.

Emotional development is a complex task that begins in infancy and continues into adulthood. The first emotions that can be recognised in babies include joy, anger, sadness and fear. Later, as children begin to develop a sense of self, more complex emotions like shyness, surprise, elation, embarrassment, shame, guilt, pride and empathy emerge. Primary school children are still learning to identify emotions, to understand why they happen and how to manage them appropriately. As children develop, the things that provoke their emotional responses change, as do the strategies they use to manage them.

The perception of emotions is an important topic to study because the ability to discern emotions plays a critical role in an individual 's cognitive growth, their reasoning, behavior idiosyncrasies and the essential key of survival. Perception is the a central element to emotions, meaning that countless emotions that an individual faces occur directly upon the perception of intensely expressive to a certain stimuli. We are aware that our mood affects how we perceive the emotions of those in our surroundings and the environments we are in, but also age has a big impact as well.

The athour researched about emotional stage and how it's developt and she used the parent and the child combnation, also her experiences as a teacher.

Emotions can undermine our ability to think clearly. Emotion could be an obstacle to knowledge even if it is considered to be a way of knowing. Strong emotions could tempt us to find reasons to justify our beliefs even if it is wrong. Emotions could allow people to unconsciously make fast decisions as it blurs our reasoning

Let’s talk about the fact that people need to learn how to deal with their emotions, this is not currently taught in our homes or schools…. At least not to the capacity that it should be, most people do not know HOW to process their feelings and THAT needs to change.

An emotion is described as, “a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). Strong feelings of emotion, such as anger, love, fear, joy, hate, etc., impact parts of the brain, both positively and negatively, and how an individual learns.

Emotions transforms our lives. There are positive emotions such as happiness and comfort that shine light in ourselves as well as onto others. On the other hand, there are negative emotions such as anger and distress that shine no light at all. Positive or negative, emotions influence our behavior, words, and way of thinking. This concept about the influence of emotions can be found in Robert Frost’s poem, “Fire and Ice”.

emotional domains can be expressed within the theoretical perspectives of Bandura, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Kohlberg's and Lerner & Steinberg. The purpose of this essay is to link up my life events with theorists that identify the human development process. I will explore overlap within domains, and similarities and differences. Also, a conflict of nature vs nature. This essay will begin with the prenatal stage, ending with adolescence.

In “Your Emotional Mind” covered in Chapter 1, I learned many interesting things about emotional intelligence, such as an emotion being defined as a feeling state, distinguishing the difference between a thought and a feeling lays the foundation for emotionally intelligent behavior, and how emotional reactivity can become a bad habit. Although these subjects were interesting, I was more enthralled with the Temporal Theory of Primary Emotions and diagram showing three primary emotions of anger, sadness, and fear in relation to the past, present, and future.

Emotions: The social construction of feeling. Emotions more commonly called feelings are important element of human social life. Emotions are personal, why, because they are kept within the inside body of a person. Even though, as society guide people’s behavior, it guides people’s emotions.