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Negative emotions are important
They are signals that alert you when something is not right in your environment. They can also serve as signals to others that you need help or support.
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Meta-emotions are feelings about feelings
A meta-emotion is an emotion that occurred in response to another emotion: Perhaps you teared up while watching a sappy movie with friends, then felt embarrassed about feeling sad. Or perhaps when you were a child, you felt happy your sibling was reprimanded, then felt guilty about feeling ha...
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4 Types of Meta-emotions:
- negative-negative (e.g., feeling embarrassed about feeling sad)
- negative-positive (e.g., feeling guilty about feeling happy)
- positive-positive (e.g., feeling hopeful about feeling relieved)
- positive-negative (e.g., feeling pleased about fee...
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Negative-negative meta-emotions
... are the most common type. This indicates that many people get upset, nervous, or angry about their own negative emotions, in particular.
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Dealing with meta-emotions
- It's important to know which emotions you are feeling before you can start to change your reactions to those emotions.
- It also helps to appreciate your negative emotions and the work they do for you.
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Choosing to deal with negative emotions
Ignoring feelings (like "stuffing your anger") is not the healthiest way to deal with them. generally speaking, that does not make them go away but can cause them to come out in different ways. That’s because your emotions act as signals to you that what you are doing in your life is or isn’t wor...
The Good Side Of Having Emotions
Emotions help us stay on our path, and also maintain our social bonds. They serve as social signals to others, as the basic emotions are visible on our faces, at least for the majority of us.
Emotions also act as gatekeepers (guilt and shame, for example) that signal us re...
Emotions are contagious
Working in a negative environment can make you feel more miserable, and sharing a roof with a negative person can make you feel depressed.
We can try to withdraw from unhappy people, but when we really love others who are suffering, we want to help, not av...
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