UNDERSTANDING THE ASPECTS OF EMOTIONS
Emotions bridge thought, feeling, and action.– John D. Mayer
Whether you’re aware of it or not, when you experience an emotion, it is made up of three aspects: thoughts, physical feelings and behaviour.
There’s no one specific order in which the aspects of an emotion occur, but any one aspect can affect the others. What you think can affect how you feel physically. It can also alter how you behave. Equally, what you do – how you behave – can affect how you feel and what you think.
Imagine, for example, that you came home to discover that the shower wasn’t working or the heating had broken down. Again. You’re angry. Your angry response could have begun with a physical reaction: tense muscles, increased ...
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