MODULE 14

• Emotion


  A natural instinctive state of mind derived from one's experiences, personal relationships, and life circumstances – usually attributed to one's feelings and moods
• Feeling


  A general term for subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations
• Mood


  A temporary state of mind or feeling
• Emotional Intelligence


  The ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways
• Emotions are based on feelings and has nothing to do with human intelligence
• A person can choose a mood whenever s/he decides to
• The more intense the emotions are, the more that they need to be suppressed
• Both Pleasant and Unpleasant Emotions must be expressed appropriately
• "Okay" as a response is a good measure of emotional expression
• Feelings Meter


  Rate the intensity of different emotions from 1 to 10
• Emotions are a natural instinctive state of mind derived from one's experiences, personal relationships, and life circumstances
• Emotional intelligence can be acquired by people across intellectual or academic capacities
• How to be Emotionally Intelligent

  1. Being Aware of Your Emotions

  2. Understanding How Others Feel and Why

  3. Managing Emotional Reactions

  4. Choosing Your Mood
• Emotional Expressions


  A set of behaviors manifested from our feelings and moods
• Emotional awareness and empathy may seem easy but need a lot of time to master, while managing reactions and choosing mood are more difficult
• Observing and understanding your reactions to how intense and varied your emotions are could a great help to achieve your self-mastery
• My Emotional Expressions Tracking Device

  1. Frequency

  2. Intensity

  3. Emotional Expressions

  4. Evaluation
• Reactions or your behavioral response to the given emotion
• Evaluation


  Your personal judgment whether your emotional expressions are acceptable or not, based on your understanding of social norms and good conduct
• Emotions


  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Angry
  • Afraid
  • Shy
  • Disgust
  • Jealous
  • Excited
  • Love
• How did you feel doing the activity? Was it easy or difficult? Why made you say so?
• What can you say about your emotional expressions or your reaction tendencies when you experience these emotions? Do you like what you see? Why or Why not?
• Based on your evaluation of each emotion and its emotional expressions, which emotion do you still need to manage better? Cite at least three (3) and suggest ways how to improve your self-management skills.
• How would you like to improve in your emotional expressions? How will it it help in shaping the better YOU?
• Expressing emotions

  • Being true in expressing emotions is good and actually healthy
  • Repressing emotions lead to increased level of stress
  • Emotional expressions were found to be a common trait among people who lived 100 years, part of it is positive attitude towards life
• Emotional Intelligence


  • Honed talents and skills, we vary in the way we cultivate these
  • A huge factor why we vary in communicating emotions are our personality
• Tips to Improve Emotional Expressions

  1. It always begins with self-awareness: how do you feel about the situation, what message do you want to communicate?

  2. Emotions are data, it communicates meaning and intent. Therefore, it is important to accurately convey those to people in the most possible way that they can also understand and perceive

  3. Practice communicating your Emotional Expression to closest friends first

  4. Avoid responding "okay" when trusted people ask, "How Are You", especially when they seem so sincere about their concern

  5. If you cannot find somebody to communicate your emotions, you may take a video of yours while expressing yourself

  6. Change your perspective about expressing unpleasant emotions
• What important ideas have you learned from this module? Enumerate at least three (in bullet form).
• What have you discovered about yourself in relation to the module? How do you feel about these discoveries? Explain your answers in a maximum of three sentences only.
• In a maximum of 5 sentences, discuss how is your understanding of the intensity and differentiation of emotions help you in communicating your emotional expressions.
• Identify personal strengths that will help you in actualizing your plans in your SMART BOARD. Use these personal strengths to back up your pledge to becoming an emotionally mature individual.