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Alan Cowen, the study's lead author and doctoral student in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, suggests thatbetter clarifying the nature ofouremotionscan play an important role in helping scientists, psychologists, and physicians learn more about how emotions underlie brain activity, behavior, and mood. By building a better understanding of these states, he hopes that researchers can develop improved treatments for psychiatric conditions. Enjoyment is an emotion or feeling that many of us try to achieve in different ways throughout our lives. When we feel enjoyment, we’re relaxed and tend to smile and laugh. She adds that emotional intimacy can also decrease loneliness and lower negative feelings in general because you’re able to vent them.

Seeing them caged up could stir up the emotion of sadness. The feelings that arise as a response to that could be disappointment that the animals aren’t allowed to roam free or dismay that zoos are even still in existence in this day and age. Know what to do if they feel sad, lonely, afraid or angry and when it is important to tell others about their feelings.

Feelings are a reaction to how your body is feeling.

It helps to expand your vocabulary and learn new words for different feelings. Ecstatic, elated, excited, thrilled, and blissful are all feelings that fall under the emotion of “happy.” But they all express different spectrums of happiness. If you’re in an unwelcomed or unpleasant situation, you may feel disgust. Disgust tends to happen because of something you dislike — from something as simple as a type of food to more complex feelings of dislike for a certain person. While anger is often thought of as a negative emotion, it can sometimes be a good thing. It can be constructive in helping clarify your needs in a relationship, and it can also motivate you to take action and find solutions to things that are bothering you. I know that we all experience a variety of thoughts and emotions that affect how we feel and behave and I am learning ways of managing them (HWB 0-02a / HWB 1-02a).

The dictionary defines enjoyment as ‘the state or process of taking pleasure in something,’” says Dr. Childs. “Enjoyment is like people, very individualized. What one person finds enjoyable, another person may not. Enjoyment can be expressed in several ways such as a smile, a hug, dancing, playing, jumping up and down for joy, verbalized with shouts of joy or sitting in peace watching others enjoy themselves and being happy about that.” Can you name some more? How about playful, joyful, calm? Mad, upset, worried. Confused, lonely, nervous. Grateful, glad, cozy. Loved, friendly, peaceful.It’s what we do with our emotions that can become the problem. Holding in negative emotions may have negative effects on your mood and behavior. If we release our emotions via journaling, screaming into a pillow or talking to someone we trust, we have released that energy and made space for more positive energy and emotions to take root.” Describe your emotions So granted, the follow-up query “What are feelings?” is bound to arise. And that is how to express your feelings. There's so many moods inside of you. There's so many you can show. We're all dealing with these feelings, Ekman, Paul 2003. Emotions revealed: understanding faces and feelings. New York: Holt. (Edition consulted was ISBN 978-0-7538-1765-0)

I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them (HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a).

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Jon and Missy Butcher, trainers of Mindvalley’s Lifebook Quest How to Express Your Feelings: 5 Tips From the Founders of Lifebook Here are a few of their tips that can help you express your feelings better: 1. Be gentle with yourself The benefits of physical exercise, time outdoors ... on mental wellbeing and happiness; simple self-care techniques. Want to be better at communicating how you feel to your family, friends and coworkers? Dr. Childs offers the following tips. Accept how you feel

Fear is a totally normal emotion — and one that likely kept your ancestors from being eaten alive. There are things you can do to manage this feeling:Ortony A, Turner TJ. What's basic about basic emotions? Psychol Rev. 1990;97(3):315-31. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.97.3.315 When we experience fear, our bodies become tense, we may start to sweat and we can feel our heart rate increase. But we also become more alert as our body prepares to run or react. I often think of disgust as coming from the gut, something that turns your stomach,” notes Dr. Childs. “It can be expressed by a sound or look of disapproval.” Although everyone responds differently to difficult events, it ultimately becomes unsustainable to withhold everything you are feeling,” Viñas says. “When we begin talking about our feelings to others, we develop a sense of emotional intimacy.”