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Top tips for understanding your feelings
Understanding your own feelings is crucial to helping build emotional intelligence.
1. Be still and listen
We can be quick to dismiss how we feel when we’re busy. When we make the time, negative emotions aren’t allowed to fester while positive emotions will improve our long-term health.
2. Identify the emotion
Try to name what you’re feeling, and don’t be surprised if you have to extend your emotional vocabulary – beyond happy, sad or angry – to get it right. See More
3. Rate the intensity
Be honest about how strong your emotion is – and how deeply it runs. Score it out of five. It’ll help you decide whether you need to take action. See More
4. Know why
If you notice what triggers you to feel a certain way, you can start to link context and circumstances to the emotions that bubble up in you.
5. Learn and move on
Feelings don’t follow reason, so they don’t need rationalizing. Observe your emotion, its effects on your body and behaviour, from a distance. Do less of what makes you feel bad and more of what makes you feel good!