With the time we grow up, we get better knowledge about our emotions and learn the skill to understand our feelings well. This is what called as emotional awareness. If you understand your emotions better, it will help you to keep yourself happy and maintaining good connection with other people. Although, it is not a tough task to understand your emotions still some people find it hard to understand their emotions than others. Fortunately, you can develop the skill of emotional awareness within you through regular practice. Here is the list of few good ideas that will help you knowing more about emotions.
1. Give attention to your emotions
Whenever you want to realize what’s going on in your mind, just notice the emotion you feel at the time and note it down on your diary, name the emotion as per your choice. For instance, write down ‘I feel happy’ when my crush gives me attention, ‘I feel embarrassing’ when I don’t know the answer of my teacher’s query etc.
2. Maintain your vocabulary of emotions
Write down various emotions you experience such as love, proud, pleasure, fun, excitement, anxiety, anger, disappointment, curiosity, depression, sentiment, care, embarrassment and so on. Check out how many emotions you can write and name them. Try to find emotions for each letter.
3. Track your emotions
Tracking emotions is really an awesome trick to develop emotional awareness within you. to follow this trick, just pick an emotion that you love such as ‘joy’ and track it whole day or week. Write down every time when you feel that emotion and count the number of times that emotion is experienced by you. Write down everything, where you are and with whom; note the intensity of emotion as well (low, high, medium)
4. Manage a journal of emotions
Take a diary and title it as journal of your emotions. Track your emotions everyday at same time, for say particular hour of the day. Journalize your experiences and feelings; add some creativity in it if you want, such as writing poems, making drawing, expressing through emoticons to express your emotions.
5. List out emotion families
Notice emotions deeply and list emotions according to the family they belong; such as angry, irritation, fuming, frustration and annoying etc. are emotions that make you feel bad in various intensity. So, all of them belongs to same family. Similarly, love, pleasure, excitement, joy and fun are emotions to belong another family. See how many emotional families come up to you often.
6. Pick emotions that you love
Definitely after doing this much for emotional awareness, you will become habitual of understanding your emotions. Now pick the emotion that you want to come over you again and again, such as ‘being loved’ and ‘being cared’. Then check out in your emotional journal that what things, situations and people make you feel that emotion. Plan those situations to experience the emotion you love.
7. Become in-charge of your emotions
In your imagination, maintain a safe place for you where you are alone. Tell yourself that you are free from all emotions and you are authorized to select the emotion of your choice. In this way, you become in-charge of your feelings and nobody can change your emotion without your permission. Just tell yourself every morning that once you choose an emotion, you will not be able to change that emotion throughout the day. In this way, you can choose happiness for you every day.
8. Control emotions that you don’t like
Of course, some of the emotions bringing disappointment for you should be avoided or ignored. Still, many unwanted situations are there to come up definitely in your day to day life that brings disappointing emotions. So, just list out the emotions that trigger sadness, anger or frustration for you. Then take those situations as challenge and start working with the least challenging, move forward towards the most challenging. This will make you comfortable with your feelings.
9. Learn to shift your emotions
During the process of developing emotional awareness, learning to shift emotions is very important thing. If you feel something that you don’t like such as anger, disappointment etc. so always re-evaluate your feelings deeply and check out what conditions generate that emotion. After identifying those emotions, try to avoid those negative conditions and get in touch of source of joyful emotions for you.
10. Accept your emotions
Understand well that we are not creators of our emotions but we will have to experience them whenever they occur. That’s why you should accept your emotions; in this way you will know how to handle them and give your best in all kinds of feelings.
These ultimate tips of handling emotions and dealing with affiliated feelings will help you lots to develop your personality. You will become more confident to think that you have full charges of driving your life in your way.
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