Emotions: A Self Analysis

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We all can feel anger, sadness, fear, love, happiness. These are emotions and reactions to circumstances and happenings. We can reflect these emotions either by the look on our faces and changes in our posture. These emotions are temporary states or moods we experience through our daily lives, and even though they seem to never end as the case of sadness and anger, they are temporary conditions. There are two emotions I can relate that perhaps are present for the most part of my life, anger and sadness. As far I remember, I always been a sad person, it seems that I was never able or have not yet being able to understand that this is a temporary feeling, in addition, to sadness my other state is anger, maybe anger is my coping surviving mechanism …show more content…
As I mentioned before, I tried using Spraindlin’s methods but my anger was stronger than my learning. Sprindlin propositions is to, “Use your imagination or thought to interrupt your current thoughts if they are distressing, ore are restarting intense negative emotion.” p178. Unfortunately, I was not able to do so, my “SUI” remained high and took quite some time to come myself down, almost the entire shift I was upset, not a good idea when one must deal with customer’s questions, concerns or …show more content…
It isn’t wrong o want to be treated a certain way, but if you stubbornly cling to your expectations without accepting the reality that you aren’t always going to be treated that way, you’ll experience unnecessary emotional suffering.” P101. Spraindlin also recommends keeping track of his suggested techniques in a diary or

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