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Mahesh Anand
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Emotions
They are basal responses that begin in the subcortical areas of the brain responsible for producing biochemical reactions to environmental stimuli that have a direct impact on our physical state.
Coded into our DNA, emotions help us respond quickly to threats, like our ‘fight or flight’ response. Also, they can often be measured objectively through physical cues such as blood flow, heart rate, brain activity, facial expressions, and body language.
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Aiden Mejia
@aidenm
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Emotions are present at all times
Most emotions arise unconsciously as ways of adapting to changes in the environment or in our own mind.
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The loss of emotional regulation brings:
- Non-acceptance of emotional response (reacting to the expression of emotion)
- Difficulty to commit to planned goals (by the irruption of afflictive emotion)
- Difficulty in controlling impulses (not being able to inhibit)
- Lack of emotional awareness (not being able to name it, label it)
- Limited access to emotional regulation strategies (not knowing how to regain control over afflictive emotion)
- Lack of emotional clarity (not being able to discern the emotions that appear)
Mindfulness can bring improvements in all of these facets.
Afflictive emotions
Within the universe of Mindfulness (following Buddhism), these are emotions that arise in reaction to an experience of displeasure or discomfort in our life, and that make us react without more control of the mind.
Afflictive emotions are not the basic ones of our human condition, like fear, anguish or the most primary anger, but what we do with them.
Mark D.
@markd17
Emotional Clarity: 6 Key Principles for Managing Your Emotions
Emotional clarity
It means that we have a good understanding of how we feel emotionally.
Label your emotions
Use plain language. The more fluent you are with real emotional language, the more clearly you will be able to think about how you’re feeling.
Clarify your emotions
Get used to the idea of emotional complexity. When we feel upset, we're not feeling one single emotion. We are usually experiencing a blend of many emotions.
Training ourselves to look for and see this emotional complexity is key to better understanding ourselves when we’re upset and moving on in a healthy way.
Kyron Ito
@kyronito
Negative Emotions Aren't Negative
There are no bad emotions
Emotions are not “bad” or “good” but simply “comfortable” or “uncomfortable.” And even uncomfortable emotions (like sadness, anger etc) help us point issues we ignored about ourselves.
Stigmatizing "bad" feelings
By stigmatizing uncomfortable feelings, we tend to eliminate the visibility of these emotions in society and people who feel sad or depressed believe they are the only ones who feel this way because they don’t see examples of others living with the same emotions around them.
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