Psychology of Emotions (follow-up)
Our emotions play an important role throughout the span of our lives for the reason that they enhance virtually all our waking moments with either a pleasant or an unpleasant quality. According to Cacioppo et al. (2001), even our relationship with the physical world is emotional. There is an emotional component to every sensual experience. Emotion seems to be in everything, but the advantage emotion gives us in survival may not be noticeable. Almost every part of the nervous system is affected by a certain sudden and extreme change in the environment. You are able to react emotionally to the situation faster than you are able to process an understanding of what is happening in the environment and understand the situation. The emotional reaction involves all of your systems at once. This is what makes the three-day diary of emotions difficult to measure its natural-occurring emotions. Most of what we call emotion is really a straw poll of what is going on in the many systems of the body at the same time. An emotion could be a register of activity in various areas of experience that have no relation to each other except through an emotional understanding.
Learning to experience your feelings fully and expressing them in ways that are adaptive and healthy is not a simple process, but there are some key components that can help. In general, it is important to become a good observer of your feelings, to accept and value them, and to attend to what they signal to you. Pay attention to how your interpretations and thoughts affect how you feel and also how the lessons learned in your family about emotional expression continue to influence your behavior. When deciding how to express how you feel, give some thought to all of your options. And most importantly, be patient. Don’t become discouraged when you find yourself struggling with this process. Learning to experience and express your emotions is a life-long process.
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