The concept that I found really interesting this week is on page 185 talking about identifying your emotions. It is very important for a person to identify their emotions. Sometimes, your emotions will directly affect how people feel about you, so it is important to maintain a good attitude when you are having a conversation with others. Learning to identify emotions, then we can ignore our feelings and teach ourselves to notice and heed them. And also I really like the example from the text, talking about people sometimes feel both anxious and hopeful. Recognizing the existence of both feelings allow you to help yourself to fit it and to communicate accurately. If people are experiencing multiple emotions at once, it is easier for them to feel hopeless or even unclear about what they feel. It is always hard to be able to identify our own emotions. We have to give mindful attention to our inner self in order to learn our emotions.
Hi Denise,
ReplyDeleteGonna play the devils advocate here. I think learning about one’s own emotion’s are of course a vital part of one’s existence. Being able to recognize others quickly is likewise important. But I feel that in everyday conversation, that it is not necessary to curb one’s attitude toward another unless you have something to gain from another. Otherwise what is the point right? I can talk to pretty much any other person on the street and not care at all about their opinions of me and go on about my day. Of course with this mentality I cant ever expect conversations to last forever or to even be nonviolent. Point is, we only need to curb our emotions and read others when we have something to gain.