Labelling Feelings 101

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This technique is called ‘affective labelling’. Put simply, it’s the act of putting your feelings into words, which forces you to identify and get to know the sensations you’re experiencing. It works in two ways.

Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

I work with people who have limited emotional vocabulary and as a result the intensity of their negative emotions and experiences is heightened because they can't describe their feelings (especially their negative feelings). That's why this list is heavily focused on negative emotions/ experiences. Being able to clearly identify how we are feeling ... See more

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Notice when someone makes you feel a feeling. Notice the source of that feeling. Write about it. Prod it, be curious about it. You might learn somethifng useful. You might integrate something new.

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be curious of how you’re feeling

There is a skill of how to access information from your emotions. Most people don’t know how. They literally cannot read their feelings, in the same way that illiterates cannot read words. Intellectuals are often illiterate *plus* deny it’s possible to learn to read. 1/

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Reading your feelings and emotions helps give you the ability to choose whether to give them attention, simply let them pass by, or utilize them for motivation.

Steve Magness • Do Hard Things

Because your mind and body are so tightly connected, one of the most effective ways to understand your emotions as they are happening is to learn how to spot the physical changes that accompany your emotions.

Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0

The brain uses concepts to make sense of data. Emotions like “fear,” “sadness,” and “disappointment” are concepts just like any other. Just as your brain interprets a pattern of light as a “window,” it might interpret a pattern of bodily sensations as “fear” or “disappointment.”

Tiago Forte • How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion

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The five primary emotions are anger, fear, sadness, joy, and excitement. Knowing how to express them all of the way through to completion helps us develop emotional intelligence. Each primary emotion has a unique energy pattern and set of sensations in and on the body. Every feeling we experience invites us in a specific way to grow in awareness an