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Choosing the Right Words for Your Emotions

Bonus Activity: Choosing the right words for your emotions

Sometimes we get caught up with our emotions and say how we feel quickly in a reactive mode. For example, if you feel “mad” check out this Feelings Wheel and determine if there is another adjective that better describes how you really feel (or more accurately expresses what you have going on in your life at the moment).

Recognizing first how you feel and tagging a specific word to that feeling is a great way to strengthen your emotional health.

1. ) Benefits Of Using An Emotional Wheel

  • improving emotional intelligence
  • help identify root causes of emotions
  • see how different emotions connect
  • find new ways to cope with emotions

2. ) How to use an emotion wheel

  • Identify the emotion closest to how you are feeling
  • Try to figure out the trigger
  •  Analyze connections
  •  Make changes or take other action

An emotion wheel is a visual guide with no set start or end.

Emotion wheels can help you identify your emotions and help increase your emotional intelligence. You can use it to help figure out what may have caused your emotions and then ways that you may be able to handle them positively.

An emotion wheel is a visual guide with no set start or end.