It’s easy to recognise when we feel an extreme emotion, whether positive or negative. Think back over the last few days and see if you can remember experiencing a particularly extreme emotion. Whether it was rage, delight, fear, excitement, or some other emotion. For those that can think of an example, ask yourself – was the emotion really as intense as you’re remembering? It may well have been, we all experience these extreme emotions now and then.
But most of us are also guilty of using these extreme words to describe what are, in fact, much milder emotions. We’re sure you can think of times where you’ve done this. A slight inconvenience occurs and suddenly you’re telling yourself and others that you are “absolutely raging”. Doing this regularly means that we blur our experience of these emotions, making it harder to recognise what emotions we are actually experiencing.
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It’s important that we try to use the correct word to accurately describe how we feel, even if it’s just silently in our own heads. This is a big part of getting to know ourselves better, and will allow us to learn more about the different situations that trigger certain emotional responses.
