It’s difficult for me to understand my feelings - a phrase that each of us has encountered: in books, in movies, in life (someone else’s or our own). But it is very important to be able to understand your feelings.
The Wheel of Emotions by Robert Plutchik
Some people believe - and perhaps they are right - that the meaning of life is in feelings. And in fact, at the end of life, only our feelings, real or in memories, remain with us. And our experiences can also be a measure of what is happening: the richer, more varied, and brighter they are, the more fully we experience life.
What are feelings? The simplest definition: feelings are what we feel. This is our attitude towards certain things (objects). There is also a more scientific definition: feelings (higher emotions) are special mental states, manifested by socially determined experiences that express long-term and stable emotional relationships person to things.
How are feelings different from emotions?
Sensations are our experiences that we experience through our senses, and we have five of them. Sensations are visual, auditory, tactile, taste and smell (our sense of smell). With sensations everything is simple: stimulus - receptor - sensation.
Our consciousness interferes with emotions and feelings - our thoughts, attitudes, our thinking. Emotions are influenced by our thoughts. And vice versa - emotions influence our thoughts. We’ll definitely talk about these relationships in more detail a little later. But now let's remember once again one of the criteria for psychological health, namely point 10: we are responsible for our feelings, it depends on us what they will be. It is important.
Fundamental Emotions
All human emotions can be distinguished by the quality of experience. This aspect of human emotional life is most clearly presented in the theory of differential emotions by the American psychologist K. Izard. He identified ten qualitatively different “fundamental” emotions: interest-excitement, joy, surprise, grief-suffering, anger-rage, disgust-disgust, contempt-disdain, fear-horror, shame-shyness, guilt-remorse. K. Izard classifies the first three emotions as positive, the remaining seven as negative. Each of the fundamental emotions underlies a whole spectrum of conditions that vary in degree of expression. For example, within the framework of such a unimodal emotion as joy, one can distinguish joy-satisfaction, joy-delight, joy-jubilation, joy-ecstasy and others. From the combination of fundamental emotions, all other, more complex, complex emotional states arise. For example, anxiety can combine fear, anger, guilt and interest.
1. Interest is a positive emotional state that promotes the development of skills and abilities and the acquisition of knowledge. Interest-excitement is a feeling of capture, curiosity.
2. Joy is a positive emotion associated with the opportunity to sufficiently fully satisfy an actual need, the probability of which was previously small or uncertain. Joy is accompanied by self-satisfaction and satisfaction with the world around us. Obstacles to self-realization are also obstacles to the emergence of joy.
3. Surprise - an emotional reaction to sudden circumstances that does not have a clearly defined positive or negative sign. Surprise inhibits all previous emotions, directing attention to a new object and can turn into interest.
4. Suffering (grief) is the most common negative emotional state associated with receiving reliable (or seeming) information about the impossibility of satisfying the most important needs, the achievement of which previously seemed more or less likely. Suffering has the character of an asthenic emotion and more often occurs in the form of emotional stress. The most severe form of suffering is grief associated with irretrievable loss.
5. Anger is a strong negative emotional state, often occurring in the form of affect; arises in response to an obstacle in achieving passionately desired goals. Anger has the character of a sthenic emotion.
6. Disgust is a negative emotional state caused by objects (objects, people, circumstances), contact with which (physical or communicative) comes into sharp conflict with the aesthetic, moral or ideological principles and attitudes of the subject. Disgust, when combined with anger, can be motivating in interpersonal relationships. aggressive behavior. Disgust, like anger, can be directed toward oneself, lowering self-esteem and causing self-judgment.
7. Contempt is a negative emotional state that arises in interpersonal relationships and is generated by mismatch life positions, views and behavior of the subject with those of the object of feeling. The latter are presented to the subject as base, not corresponding to accepted moral standards and ethical criteria. A person is hostile to someone he despises.
8. Fear is a negative emotional state that appears when the subject receives information about possible damage to his life well-being, about a real or imaginary danger. In contrast to suffering caused by direct blocking of the most important needs, a person, experiencing the emotion of fear, has only a probabilistic forecast of possible trouble and acts on the basis of this forecast (often insufficiently reliable or exaggerated). The emotion of fear can be both sthenic and asthenic in nature and occur either in the form of stressful conditions, or in the form of a stable mood of depression and anxiety, or in the form of affect (horror).
9. Shame is a negative emotional state, expressed in the awareness of the inconsistency of one’s own thoughts, actions and appearance not only with the expectations of others, but also with one’s own ideas about appropriate behavior and appearance.
10. Guilt is a negative emotional state, expressed in the awareness of the unseemlyness of one’s own actions, thoughts or feelings and expressed in regret and repentance.
Table of human feelings and emotions
And I also want to show you a collection of feelings, emotions, states that a person experiences during his life - a generalized table that does not pretend to be scientific, but will help you better understand yourself. The table was taken from the website “Communities of Addicted and Codependent”, author - Mikhail.
All human feelings and emotions can be divided into four types. These are fear, anger, sadness and joy. You can find out what type a particular feeling belongs to from the table.
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And for those who read the article to the end. The purpose of this article is to help you understand your feelings and what they are like. Our feelings largely depend on our thoughts. Irrational thinking is often at the root of negative emotions. By correcting these mistakes (working on our thinking), we can be happier and achieve more in life. There is interesting, but persistent and painstaking work to be done on oneself. You are ready?
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During the day, a person experiences a lot of emotions, which, mixing with each other, create a bizarre bouquet. This bouquet colors a person’s perception, making a day “bad” or “good.”
Surely every person wants to wake up every morning with a smile and see off the day in positive mood. Living every day happily, filling your life with joyful emotions - this task may turn out to be impossible until a person learns to manage his emotions.
We can change our mood as we want, we don’t have to be dependent on circumstances. In order to feel the emotion of joy, it is not necessary to wait for the right moment when someone or something makes us laugh.
In order to rejoice, you just need to rejoice. To be happy, you don’t have to look for a reason: money, health, a soulmate, recognition, and so on. You can be happy just like that. After all, all we need already is our emotions.
All that remains is to understand the art of managing your emotions. To do this, first of all, you need to know the types of human emotions in order to learn to distinguish and separate emotions from each other, because they rarely appear in their pure form.
Every person has four pure emotions:
- anger
- fear
- joy
- despondency
These types of emotions create a combination of other feelings and emotions that each of us may experience on a daily basis.
Watch this short video, it shows the faces of different people experiencing the same emotions: from joy to fear.
Conventionally, the types of human emotions can be divided into three main categories: negative, positive and neutral.
List of basic human emotions and feelings
Positive
1. Pleasure
2. Joy.
3. Rejoicing.
4. Delight.
5. Pride.
6. Confidence.
7. Trust.
8. Sympathy.
9. Admiration.
10. Love (sexual).
11. Love (affection).
12. Respect.
13. Tenderness.
14. Gratitude (appreciation).
15. Tenderness.
16. Complacency.
17. Bliss
18. Schadenfreude.
19. Feeling of satisfied revenge.
20. Peace of mind.
21. Feeling of relief.
22. Feeling satisfied with yourself.
23. Feeling of security.
24. Anticipation.
Neutral
25. Curiosity.
26. Surprise.
27. Amazement.
28. Indifference.
29. Calm and contemplative mood.
Negative
30. Displeasure.
31. Grief (sorrow).
33. Sadness (sadness).
34. Despair.
35. Chagrin.
36. Anxiety.
38. Fear.
41. Pity.
42. Sympathy (compassion).
43. Regret.
44. Annoyance.
46. Feeling insulted.
47. Indignation (indignation).
48. Hatred.
49. Dislike.
50. Envy.
52. Anger.
53. Dejection.
55. Jealousy.
57. Uncertainty (doubt).
58. Mistrust.
60. Confusion.
61. Rage.
62. Contempt.
63. Disgust.
64. Disappointment.
65. Disgust.
66. Dissatisfaction with oneself.
67. Repentance.
68. Remorse.
69. Impatience.
70. Bitterness.
Perhaps some of the readers will not agree with this division of feelings. Feelings are divided not from the position of ethics, but from the position of pleasure or displeasure.
A person invests a colossal amount of energy in his emotions. In essence, this energy is neutral, only emotion can give it a positive or negative character, direct it in the direction of creation or destruction.
Take a closer look at this list, determine for yourself in which emotions do you invest your strength more, in the emotions of destruction or creation?
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Each of us needs novelty of sensations at a certain time. Without it, we may lose our zest for life. As a rule, fate itself throws surprises at us, and we experience new, fresh emotions, but it also happens that it seems that life has stopped and we no longer want anything.
Novelty of sensations is the experience of new emotions. It's a lot like gaining new knowledge. For example, you, as a professional, know many different things, but you want to develop, learn something new and still unknown to you. The same goes for emotions. That is why we watch new films, listen to new hits, look for new books.
If it suddenly happens that you have lost your taste for life, then one of the reasons for this may be precisely the lack of new and pleasant emotions. What exactly needs to be done in such a situation?
1.Emotions for the body
New impressions for the body are the easiest to get. It could be a new dish, now almost everywhere there is home delivery, use this to try a new exotic cuisine. Or some interesting attractions, dancing, sports. In general, whatever you can experience through your body will be ideal.
2.Emotions for the mind
IN in this case you need new experiences for your thought process. The first thing that immediately comes to mind is books. If you like to read serious literature on self-development and self-realization, then your brain will receive new information, and with it emotions. It is not necessary to read serious literature; anything that makes you think will do: mahjong, puzzles, learning to write with your left hand, finally.
3.Emotions for the soul
Most the best option– a conversation with a close friend or loved one who accepts you for who you are. Although a conversation with someone in itself always evokes some emotions, try to ensure that these are only the most pleasant experiences. Music is also suitable, since it is music that awakens the most pleasant emotions in us; try listening to the sounds of the ocean.
Which emotions to choose depends entirely on you. You can use all types, or you can focus on just one. The main thing is that you can experience a pleasant experience that would evoke a new response in you.
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A monotonous life with a repeating cycle of already familiar actions, and even without such a miracle as positive emotions, can easily create a depressed mood for any of us... And with such a mood, you can reach a depressive state, which is not necessary for any person - but there is a way out and this is an excellent way out of the dullness of everyday life!
positive emotions
We can easily improve our daily routine by positive emotions, but there are many of them and each, entering our lives, will give its own positive flavor and feeling.
Let's talk a little about positive emotions. After all, most of us perceive some of the sensations below as commonplace, although they confidently make a positive contribution to our everyday life. Most often, in the life of any of us, such emotions as inquisitiveness, curiosity, and passion arise. It is these emotions that easily motivate us to form knowledge, new skills and thinking. Any routine work can only be supported by an interest in it - and having become interested, any of us will begin to expand our horizons, exploring and finding something more modern and more interesting. An interested person is always lively and inspired and does not think about boredom at all! Let's talk about surprise - also an emotion, but it passes quickly. It can arise spontaneously and disappear just as quickly after a person satisfies his interest. But surprise can prepare any of us for something new, unexpected, concentration of attention and subsequent actions, of course, successful ones - positive emotions.
A very positive emotion is joy, which instills confidence and significance in a person; thanks to this emotion, people have the ability to overcome all difficulties and, of course, enjoy life. Joy can instill in any of us satisfaction with ourselves, those around us, and the entire Universe in general, and gives faith in our own strength. Only as soon as any of us is able to fully realize all our capabilities will this wonderful feeling of joy and happiness appear.
By the way, about happiness – it is the most powerful positive emotion! This emotion accompanies a person’s actions that are approaching their completion, or have already been implemented with the expected result. Ideals, goals and dreams lead us to happiness, anticipating the result of our actions, which is why this most pleasant feeling appears. Naturally, hard-to-achieve goals lead to happiness, which must be achieved with difficulty, but also with hope, but achieving a goal that is not so distant and difficult cannot bring such all-consuming joy and happiness. After all, everything available is not able to bring happiness, even when it is achieved... They talk about gratitude and feel this emotion in the case when a person is grateful for the actions he has performed, or the words that have brought him joy and become
Endless, identical gray everyday life, creeping one after another, can bring anyone to a depressed state. But you can add color to your life with positive emotions. There are many types of positive emotions, each of them will bring its own positive charge into your world.
List of positive emotions:
- Interest, interest, curiosity– the most frequently occurring emotion that motivates the development of thinking, knowledge, and skills. Interest is the only motivation that supports routine work. An interested person has a desire to expand his experience and explore something new. With strong interest, a person feels revitalized and inspired.
- Astonishment is a transitory emotion: it appears quickly and disappears just as quickly. Its function is to prepare a person for sudden or new events and successful actions.
- Joy– refers to a person’s positive emotions, characterized by a feeling of confidence, significance, the ability to overcome difficulties and enjoy life. It is accompanied by satisfaction with oneself, the world and the people around, a feeling of energy and personal strength. Joy awakens when a person realizes his potential. Obstacles on the path to self-realization prevent joy from arising.
- Happiness– the most powerful positive emotion. It occurs when a person reaches a goal or when this moment approaches. The road to happiness lies in ideals, dreams, goals. They anticipate the outcome, contributing to the emergence of pleasant feelings. The more accessible and closer the goal, the less happiness you feel. A person who wants to experience happiness to the fullest must determine his abilities and achieve difficult, distant goals.
- Gratitude- originates when a person feels gratitude and understands that he has received some benefit.
- Hope– this is optimism, the belief that everything will be fine in the end result. Problems do not seem unresolved, a person sees the future as bright and believes that his wishes will come true, no matter what.
- Serenity- appears when everything is going as it should, you feel relaxed and calm. Your mind is not burdened with worries. Peace comes in a moment of calm and calm when you can simply enjoy the present.
- Trembling we feel when awe and curiosity flare up about something incredibly delightful. It could be amazing natural phenomena, works of art, technological achievements. At such moments, the understanding comes that we are just a grain in a huge world.
How to get positive emotions?
The world of emotions permeates everything human life: communication, interaction with people, activity and cognition. The effect of positive emotions is enormous: they allow us to expand our usual actions and thinking, create personal resources, make us cheerful, and improve health and well-being over time.