Emotional Journal Analysis

Memories guide us through life.They guide us so we can reach perfection. Have you ever been in the

This paper will examine Robert C. Solomon's Emotions and Choices article, to best identify what anger is, and to what extent a rational human being is responsible for their anger. Firstly, Solomon's argument must be described. A quick summation of Solomon's argument can be found in the following four points: Emotions are judgements, emotions are chosen, emotions serve a purpose, and emotions are rational.1 To quote Solomon, he explains that “Emotions are not occurrences, and do not happen to us. They ... may be chosen like an action.”2

Pattern recognition helps to develop the skills necessary to develop a differential diagnosis. When seeing patients in the clinical setting, practitioners begin to recognize associated symptoms, health history details, and assessment findings that are related to specific system alterations. By acknowledging these repetitive patterned-like affiliations from clinical scenarios, we as learners can begin to transform our foundational knowledge to critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, and differential development. According to work by Flott and Linden (2015), a positive learning environment can be supported by understanding "attributes" that support learning (p. 501). Hence, pattern recognition is an example of an attribute that will contribute to learning in the clinical setting for nurse practitioner students. Consequently, being able to mentally sort a group of symptoms, findings, and diagnostics that are related to a particular problem can help build an intellectual database of reference. As a result, these steps help students develop a diagnosis, differential, and plan of care. A reflection of pattern recognition, problem-based learning, and clinical experiences will be examined further to help substantiate the contributions to the learning experience.

O’Brien describes that memories can affect one’s emotions in a detrimental way over time. Reflecting on memories that one felt affected them negatively can be bad for the mind and cause them emotional turmoil. O’Brien describes a “hard story to tell (O’Brien 172).” “For more than twenty years,” O’Brien, “had to live with...the shame.” O’Brien had been “trying to push (the memory) away,” The event O’Brien reminisces on

Memories can last a life time, so we tend to only remember the extraordinary ones. Extraordinary like the essay “The Yellow Ribbon” by Pete Hamill, in which he talks about how a person named Vingo, was riding on a, bus recently released from jail, to this oak tree explaining to some passengers that he had told his wife to leave him if she wanted, since he went to jail or to go to this oak tree and tie a yellow ribbon around it to see if she wants him to stick around and he will go and check it out. In the end, he saw hundreds of ribbons tied on to the tree. Not only is this an amazing story, but also very unforgettable one as well, because he finds out that after four years in jail his wife has enough love for him to go to this tree and tie hundreds of ribbons just to show the type of love the women had for Vingo. I have to say that, I believe this story is truly unforgettable, but I also got a story that is very extraordinary, like the time that I got my very first car. Furthermore, I didn’t just get a car, I got the love of two truly loving parents.

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

Selective memories is what separates the meaningful memories from the trivial ones. Allowing yourself to just live in the moment and forget as quick as you take in is the best way to allow yourself to enjoy life. Experiencing for the sake of experiencing is the only way you can truly let yourself go and get a true sense of what is happening. Its similar to taking notes while watching an intriguing video in class. Instead of just allowing yourself to just absorb and wonder about the information being presented, you are too busy trying to summarize what facts and narrative is being spewed out.

In conclusion, throughout Beah emotional journey one key component is music for the survival, loneliness, and rehabilitation of Beah. Without music Beah most likely would have returned to the front lines of the war. Music helped Beah survive the early stages of his journey. Without music, Beah would have fallen prey to the dark thoughts of the war sooner. Without his family and music, Beah hit the lowest point, but it became a beacon pulling Beah from a dark place. Music gave Beah connections to new friends and relatives, even though it brought sad memories of his previous life. Beah love for music was a key component for his survival of those horrible experiences and most likely to this date it still is. (Beah, 2007, p. 5-218)

Nivek, presented a normal behavior today, he discussed how he had fun playing outside and was excited he will be able to participate in his school ice-cream party tomorrow. In the activity he expressed his feeling in an approached manner by accepting the fact that he was losing rounds in the game. Modeled appropriate behavior when he displaced competiveness and how he was willing to continue playing until he was able to win the prize that he desired very badly. He showed no signs of anger or frustration but stated how he enjoyed playing the game and wining a prize at the end. Therapist praise Nivek for showing better self- control.

Most people are very convinced that they have memories of past experiences because of the event itself or the bigger picture of the experience. According to Ulric Neisser, memories focus on the fact that the events outlined at one level of analysis may be components of other, larger events (Rubin 1). For instance, one will only remember receiving the letter of admission as their memory of being accepted into the University of Virginia. However, people do not realize that it is actually the small details that make up their memories. What make up the memory of being accepted into the University of Virginia are the hours spent on writing essays, the anxiety faced due to fear of not making into the university and the happiness upon hearing

Memories are directly linked to emotions and can even be the cause of certain emotions. For example, two people in romantic relationships developed feelings for each other over time. If one of them got brain damage and developed retrograde amnesia, or the inability to recall memories from before the amnesia-causing incident, they would not recall any of the memories involving their partner prior to that, making their attraction fade or even disappear. This can also be applied to friendships; if you lost your memories concerning your friend, you won’t have an emotional bond with your friend anymore.

It is when we experience discontinuity in our life, such as the death of or sudden separation from a loved one, that nostalgia may come into play. Ironically, while we combat feelings of sadness or mourning by allowing our minds to re-live moments when our lives felt more whole, we are also reminding ourselves of what we have lost. Nostalgia is not just a search for the past within the mnemonic, but also within the temporal, ‘a yearning for a different time- the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our

For the Emotions Daily journal experiment, I made notes to record how I am feeling when I wake up. When I wake up early in the morning I am in a bad mood. I’m just not a morning person at all. If I wake up in the afternoon I feel more refreshed and less moody. When I wake up in the evening I feel very good and am I feel like the rest of the day is going to be good. In this experiment I realized that I cannot control my emotions too well. If I wake up not feeling good then, I have a strong feeling it’s just not going to be a good day at all. However, when I wake up feeling rejuvenated I feel today is going to be a good day. Some things that I learned in emotional processing is that I realize my feelings are important to me. I need to acknowledge my emotions more and take the time out to understand how and why I feel like this. I tend to let my emotions come out freely. I need to learn how to control my emotions more and express them better. Some people notice that my emotions get the best of me. If I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, most likely it is definitely going to be a bad day. If I have a bad day, then I probably will say something mean to someone else and ruin their day as well. I’m going to start working on my emotional expression, and display my feelings better. Maybe if I try to wake up with a smile more often I’m pretty sure that my emotions will start improving.

The idea that our memories change the way on which we see the world and ultimately change reality is a difficult one to understand. An answer to this question depends on the way we define reality. If we define reality as objective- then it can not be altered by memories. However if we define reality as subjective, then, yes, our memories can affect our reality. But what do we mean by memories? What do we mean by relationship? What follows is an attempt to answer some of these questions, and see whether and how our memories affect our reality.

The same phenomenon is evident in the way in which we learn also. If you had to write an English paper as a teen about the turbulent love story of Romeo and Juliet whilst experiencing a breakup with your high school sweetheart, the story will probably be attached in your memory forever, even more so because the emotions expressed in the story are very similar to what you yourself are experiencing. We have all had the experience of hearing a certain song or smelling a certain perfume whilst we are experiencing an intense, mind-rattling emotion- hearing said song in the future could be like reliving the entire event, physiologically and mentally.