3 Ways to Increase Your Emotion Skills
"Accurately identifying which specific emotions you are feeling is the foundation of all other emotion regulation skills.
1. Emotions bingo.
Make yourself a bingo card with as many emotion words as you can think of—for example, angry, sad, disappointed, bored, excited, joy, or awe.
How to use: As you notice yourself feeling a particular emotion, cross that off your bingo card until there aren't any left.
This game will help you learn to notice and accurately label your less dominant, more nuanced emotions. It'll also help you learn which emotions you experience most often.
2. Make it a habit to identify at least two emotions whenever you feel strong emotions.
Research shows that merely identifying your emotions helps defuse them. It'll help immediately, and you can layer the other aspects of self-compassion onto your emotional granularity skills once you improve them.
3. Teach emotion identification to your children.
Teaching is a great way to improve any skill. For parents of young kids, your children can be your captive audience on this! Ideas for how to do this:
- What emotions are characters in a story experiencing?
- I have conversations with my six-year-old like, "What type of situation might simultaneously make someone scared and excited?" It surprised me she could answer this type of open-ended question at her developmental level.
Investing in your capacity to identify your full range of human emotions can greatly benefit your psychological health, relationships, and productivity (since it'll help you still engage with your goals, even when you're feeling strong emotions). Give it a try, using the method that most appeals to you."
@comfortableNight4463 As a trained active listener, I love this post on emotions.
What a timely piece of information.
As listeners, we are trained to offer emotional support.
Also as listeners, we are also trained to, validate someones emotional state, to show empathy, and use our active listening skills.
I feel this information maybe should be put in the listener sub-community.
Tagging: @Jenna @riverissinging @CheeryMango
Sorry if I tagged to many people or the wrong people. But I think it should be moved to the Listener Sub-Community. But wanted to know what you think.
@Happy900 thanks for the tag! I agree - it can be useful for listeners but members as well since it can help them bring about emotional awareness and regulation by themselves. The post is open to both members and listeners anyways. Feel free to tag any listener who you think might find this interesting/helpful!
@Happy900 Thank you so much! I agree, it can be very useful to listeners and members.
@comfortableNight4463 I really love the advice of teaching emotions to children young! It really gives them the ability to identify how they are feeling young and they will become emotionally intelligent later in life. When I read the bingo one, I thought of this one picture of a graph that helps you identify emotions. It's called The Feelings Wheel! I have attached it below for anyone interested! 💛
@fruityPond7887 This is super interesting! Thanks for sharing this!
@comfortableNight4463 Absolutely! I love it!
@fruityPond7887 It can be so helpful in identifying emotions. Thanks again! If it was possible to pin comments, I would definitely pin this.
@comfortableNight4463 Aw you're too sweet! Thank you! 💚
@fruityPond7887 No, you are ❤️
Tagging: @kindSoul10 @SirenofSerenity @Bookworm10 @Goalsforlife
Please also tag any listener you feel might be interested in this post as well.
Thanks,
Happy900
@Happy900 Thank you for spreading this post! I hope it reaches a lot of people and helps them.
@comfortableNight4463 Thanks for this article! Emotional intelligence is very much important these days more so than IQ now. I'd love to learn more about how to identify and increase emotional intelligence.
@cuddlyCandy7014 You're welcome! I agree, emotional intelligence is so important since it affects many aspects of our life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
