Developing Emotional Awareness
The Definition of Emotional Awareness Emotions are naturally based patterns of perception, experience, physiology, communication and also activity culturally developed in our minds. Affect, the physical experience of enjoyment as well as discomfort, is the foundation of emotion. We are birthed with affect; we are not birthed with emotions. In very early childhood years, we discover emotions by producing a database of physical experiences with emotional words. We experience affect physically. When we are aware of that physical feeling, we experience emotion.Emotional recognition is the capability to identify the experience of affect in awareness with a word that symbolizes that experience.Here's an example. Expect something occurs to me. I experience a moderate adverse affect of anger/rage. I familiarize the experience I am experiencing. Reaching right into my psychological database, I have the ability to explain the feeling as disappointment. I am mindful that I am experiencing the...