Emotions Perceiving Critical Thinking

Our emotions are like a silent shadow that follows us throughout lives, revealing our every feeling of displeasure or happiness whether we realize it or not. At times in our lives we let our emotions get the better of us, which result in us can make decisions that we could potentially regret for the rest of our lives, or they could enhance life as we experience it. However we experience emotion, many of us wish we could turn off our emotions and ignore them, but in truth we need our emotions to function. Our emotions can help us effectively communicate socially with others, but this effective communication can rapidly denigrate causing us to lose control of the situation at hand. If we can enhancing our ability to read and understand emotions …show more content…
We in turn, seem to take this information in and innately analyze what we are perceiving. In most cases, our evolutionary roots has enabled us with the ability to read and synthesize a general understanding of another’s emotional state, but this isn’t always easy at times, especially in complex emotions. However, with a little more practice, can an individual learn to read emotions to a higher degree accuracy and precision, being able to perceive emotions the average person cannot? I for one believe this ability is possible. For example, some of the best readers of emotional expression, are police officers as they are constantly trying to read the body language of anyone they are engaging with. In these interactions, the officer will look for indicators of emotion and intent, such as using facial expressions and vocal tone to determine if a subject is telling the truth. Officers, will also use other bodily indicators such as posture and muscle tension to gage the likelihood of a subject being aggressive. Like police officers, the average individual can also learn to use and recognize the various methods individuals use to express their emotions (such as facial actions, vocal tone, touch, posture and gait). By integrating all the components associated with …show more content…
However, being in control of our emotions is not always an easy feat and at times seem to take a great deal of self-discipline and self-control. Many of our emotions and their associated reactions that are believed to be innately programed and are carried out autonomously by our brain and autonomic nervous system. These automatic responses seem to have a strong adaptive value in our evolutionary origins, helping us be in a state of readiness along with adaptively responding to environmental cues. Despite, some of these reactions being innate and adaptive, they at times can do more harm than good. On a similar note, people also seem as if they have different sensitivities to particular situations, with great variation occurring in the kinds of response and coping mechanisms that could be generated for a particular stimuli. For example, when one compares a soldier, who has been trained in a stress controlled environment, to a normal individual, the soldier in most cases will be able to perform at a higher degree, showing the ability to control their emotions in an extremely dangerous and stressful situation. This in addition to my personal experiences, makes me believe that it possible for the average individual to learn how to control their emotions to an even greater level, empowering them to maintain their cool under pressure. This emotional control under