My Emotion Definition Essay

At home, with my husband, any conflict we have, I know needs to be addressed and addressed in a way where I am confronting him immediately and being completely honest. I can use the words I wish to use as they come to me and can say exactly what I am feeling without sugar coating it. At work, with my coworkers, any conflict that occurs, I must strategically think about how to address the conflict, when to address it and the process that will occur after addressing the conflict.

The ability to identify emotion and carry it out into one’s daily life is what defines an individual as human; if one lacks emotion, then the individual will become a robot of society. Emotion is defined as a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

Controlling my emotions is vital to my success in building a working therapeutic relationship with a patient. A patient who feels that I may be judging them will become defensive, argumentative and will not want to communicate. Relationship management also helps me to handle situations with family members of patients. Actions of others and events which may have occurred prior to the patient arriving in my care may have upset the patient and family members, which requires me to manage conflicts, improve communications and build a new positive relationship. Additionally, being able to control my reactions to a situation can provide coworkers, patients and family members with a sense of direction and help them to remain calm in tense

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

My husband and I are both two very defensive people always struggling to get our point of view across. We communicated just like to attorneys in a court room trying to win, as he described in his group. Instead of listening and trying to understand what each other is feeling we jump right into our own emotions.

Emotions are used in everyday life, whether it be just a simple smile that makes happiness disperse in your brain, or a death of a loved one that causes sadness. The basic emotions are joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt. The way we see emotion in ourselves and others can be very complex because we sometimes assume they feel a certain way just based on their actions or even facial expressions. When emotion is discussed in psychological terms, it is not based on one thing, instead it’s a mix of bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience. Many theories try to explain how emotion works.

People typically have all sorts of emotions depending on the situation. A time when someone's emotion rubbed off me was when I went to take my Comptia A+ certification test. This test was supposed to be a stepping stone towards my degree but when I got to the testing facility, all the confidence that I had seem to have evaporated into thin air the second I saw a couple of people walking out expressing how tough it was. The tears in their eyes, their shaky voice, and the people who they're with telling them that there's always next time. After seeing and hearing all of that, even I couldn't help but be emotional on how I was going to do. The good was is that the second the test started, my confidence came back as I remembered all those long

Feelings about a situation can have a large impact on difficult conversations because they can make one less likely to listen effectively. Also, something I never considered, they can influence self-esteem. With a damaged self-esteem, other people cannot learn from their mistakes and the relationship is damaged (Stone, Patton, Heen 2010). I find myself needed to learn from this chapter especially. I tend to hide my feelings to avoid conflict. Yes, this has reduced my number of difficult conversations, but it has not increased my happiness. I can even see how it ruined a past relationship. The relationship needed to end, but I never voiced my hurt or annoyance from the actions of my significant other. This, ultimately, contributed to the end of that relationship because I was not happy, and I was not making sure my feelings were

The reading on emotions is was a good reminder to “read each other”. Having a conversation with two parties that are able to do this is ideal and leads to quicker resolutions and the ability to be creative in solutions. Sounds so easy, but any times this is not the case as one of the parties in the conversation can’t or don’t read the other emotions. From our perspective, we can help lead the conversations by knowing how we can be involved in bringing awareness to this need. And how we can ensure we are reflecting on what is being said and the feelings that are being brought into the conflict or conversation. Being able to bring a relationship into a difficult conversations, stating why the other persons has an impact and how their decisions and actions, will relate can help in opening up the other party to share in the

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.

The term “emotional” tends to be synonymous with the terms “irrational” and “chaotic”. People see those who are emotional as uncontrollable. However, people experiencing strong emotions are being guided but not being forced into any action; they are not uncontrollable. As David Brooks writes in his book “The Social Animal,” that when a person is experiencing a strong emotion, such as happiness, “the mind is sorting and coding. The body is responding. The heart speeds. Adrenaline rises. A smile opens up. Signals are flowing from body and brain and back again in quick intricate loops” (20). From this example, we can see that the person experiencing a strong emotion is not irrational or chaotic. On the contrary, the person is being guided by the

When talking about emotion it seems a fairly simple topic and immediately "feeling" words come to mind; sad, happy, and confused. These are basic emotions and easy to understand. What isn't so simple about emotions is their process and how they form and work. Emotions are reactions to sensory information like sight, smell, taste, touch and sound (Tracing Emotion’s Pathways 94). However, it is not that simple; an emotional reaction or response is made aware of and understood by a part of the brain called the sensory cortex. These emotional responses or reactions to sensory stimuli are processed by a part of the brain called the amygdala (What’s An Emotion). The amygdala is a huge asset to the cognitive factors of emotions because in processing emotions you become able to understand, recognize, and control them. So then how do emotions evoke a physiological reaction such as tearing up when one feels sad, laughing with joy, and trembling with fear? These physiological reactions that one may experience come from the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is, “a collection of fibers that extend throughout

In our everyday lives, we are constantly interacting with other individuals. These interactions have an effect on our emotions. We have to learn how to identify and deal with these emotions because they have a direct effect on how we deal with issues at work. Individuals can work their way through this process by becoming aware of the importance of emotional intelligence.

When I was taking the conflict resolution assessment I used my previous relationship as a guide for answering the questions. I came to the conclusion that due to my fear of conflict I was only creating more of a conflict for myself. Instead of making such an effort to avoid conflict within my relationship, I should’ve been more open and honest. With this relationship in particular, I never let my frustration and anger get to the surface. I kept it all bottled up inside and felt that the things I was getting upset over were silly and not worth fighting over. By not letting it be known that certain things were bothering me, my partner’s behavior stayed the same. Eventually, it caused us to grow distant and the relationship failed. I believe that if I had known then the proper way to resolve a conflict and communicate my feelings the relationship would’ve been healthier.