Understanding Emotions

What are you feeling, right now, as you start to read this? Are you curious? Hopeful that you'll learn something about yourself? Bored because this is something you have to do for school and you're not really into it — or happy because it's a school project you enjoy? Perhaps you're distracted by something else, like feeling excited about your weekend plans or sad because you just went through a breakup.

Emotions like these are part of human nature. They give us information about what we're experiencing and help us know how to react.

• Understanding Emotions

• Understanding Your Feelings - quick video on different feelings on how to deal with them

• Animation on Understanding Emotions - Video (~8 minutes)

• Choosing Your Mood

• Managing Emotional Reactions

• Dealing with Difficult Emotions

• 5 Ways to Know Your Feelings Better

• The Power of Positive Emotions

• Feeling Wheel - A great tool to help you identify your emotions

  • Feeling Wheel (1)

  • Feeling Wheel (2)

• Emotions and the Brain - quick video helping describing how the brain plays a role in our emotions

• Inside Out - I don't have a link to the movie, but it is a great one describing emotions and how they impact us in every moment.