This is day 3. 16 name the feeling.
An interesting exercise to go through next time that you are feeling out of sorts is to ask yourself. What? Exactly am I feeling?
Surprisingly, many of us are not capable of making any distinction between feeling ashamed versus feeling anxious. We simply lack the vocabulary. We just simply call it, not feeling good,
I'm not sure why this is the case and raising three children. I noticed when they were growing up, they would sometimes just not be in a good mood.
so, we would quiz them and slowly go through the range of emotions until we had identified the culprit
My wife was particularly good at that but not me. I started to recognize that growing up. I could not really identify which emotion belonged to which category.
I recently saw an article on online referencing, some research by Katy Holman and Lisa, Barrett call the simple Trek that can help you understand your emotions.
One of their examples caught my attention.
I've always, I've always suffered from some color blindness. I can distinguish in between shades of red, is almost impossible for me.
It was once explained to me that I was probably missing or had a reduced number of Rudders up to rods that received light at the back of my rightness,
Anyway, the researchers compared the lack of ability to identify emotion to this, similar to that of color vision.
One person may only see red, kind of like me and other people will see Crimson Scarlet. Burgundy pink Etc.
The label is not the point. What is identified here in their research? Is that
With a working definition of the color spectrum, you can identify what you are seeing.
That same thing happens with emotions, if you clearly identify a your emotion as guilt and set of just bad, then you can actually do something positive about it.
This is like this is identity and resilience work at the granular level discomfort, you can name is discomfort that you can actually act on.
Which has long been my observation that awareness must precede change?
The important point that I think that researchers were making is that the ability to name? A particular feeling is a skill.
The emotional granularity can be learned practiced and improved over time.
This means you can actually get better at facing any negative emotions that you experience and your life.
By simply naming them.
This journey of understanding and shaping our emotional landscape is not about eradicating discomfort completely, but about cultivating a more nuanced relationship with it.
It's an invitation to explore the rich tapestry of our inner World, recognize that each feeling once acknowledged and understood offers a unique opportunity for growth and maybe some self-direction.
If you Embrace this as an ongoing process, we can discover a profound capacity to navigate life's currents with greater intention.
And maybe with a little bit of personal agency, I can name the emotion, therefore, I can do something about the emotion.
An interesting exercise to go through next time that you are feeling out of sorts is to ask yourself. What? Exactly am I feeling?
Surprisingly, many of us are not capable of making any distinction between feeling ashamed versus feeling anxious. We simply lack the vocabulary. We just simply call it, not feeling good,
I'm not sure why this is the case and raising three children. I noticed when they were growing up, they would sometimes just not be in a good mood.
so, we would quiz them and slowly go through the range of emotions until we had identified the culprit
My wife was particularly good at that but not me. I started to recognize that growing up. I could not really identify which emotion belonged to which category.
I recently saw an article on online referencing, some research by Katy Holman and Lisa, Barrett call the simple Trek that can help you understand your emotions.
One of their examples caught my attention.
I've always, I've always suffered from some color blindness. I can distinguish in between shades of red, is almost impossible for me.
It was once explained to me that I was probably missing or had a reduced number of Rudders up to rods that received light at the back of my rightness,
Anyway, the researchers compared the lack of ability to identify emotion to this, similar to that of color vision.
One person may only see red, kind of like me and other people will see Crimson Scarlet. Burgundy pink Etc.
The label is not the point. What is identified here in their research? Is that
With a working definition of the color spectrum, you can identify what you are seeing.
That same thing happens with emotions, if you clearly identify a your emotion as guilt and set of just bad, then you can actually do something positive about it.
This is like this is identity and resilience work at the granular level discomfort, you can name is discomfort that you can actually act on.
Which has long been my observation that awareness must precede change?
The important point that I think that researchers were making is that the ability to name? A particular feeling is a skill.
The emotional granularity can be learned practiced and improved over time.
This means you can actually get better at facing any negative emotions that you experience and your life.
By simply naming them.
This journey of understanding and shaping our emotional landscape is not about eradicating discomfort completely, but about cultivating a more nuanced relationship with it.
It's an invitation to explore the rich tapestry of our inner World, recognize that each feeling once acknowledged and understood offers a unique opportunity for growth and maybe some self-direction.
If you Embrace this as an ongoing process, we can discover a profound capacity to navigate life's currents with greater intention.
And maybe with a little bit of personal agency, I can name the emotion, therefore, I can do something about the emotion.
