Developing Emotional Awareness
The Definition of Emotional Awareness Emotions are biologically based patterns of perception, experience, activity, communication and physiology culturally developed in our brains. Affect, the physical experience of enjoyment and discomfort, is the structure of emotion. We are birthed with affect; we are not born with emotions. In early youth, we discover emotions by producing a data source of physical experiences with psychological words. We experience affect physically. We experience emotion.Emotional awareness is the capability to label the experience of affect in awareness when we are conscious of that physical feeling with a word that represents that experience.Here's an instance. Expect something happens to me. I experience a moderate negative affect of anger/rage. I become conscious of the feeling I am experiencing. Reaching into my psychological data source, I am able to define the sensation as stress. I realize that I am experiencing the emotion of frustration.Why Emotiona...