Six steps to improve your emotional granularity: try on new perspectives, recategorize what you're feeling, talk about what you're feeling, move your body, improve your vocabulary, write about your experiences. 

Writing or journaling can be a helpful tool for those who have difficulty identifying their feelings, particularly for people with alexithymia. Many individuals with alexithymia have an easier time accessing reflective emotions, which are emotions that are processed through our prefrontal cortex, compared to routine emotions, which are emotions

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