Emotions
Emotions Alphabetical list of emotions: 
No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending
Which emotions are you currently experiencing?
Which emotions do you wish you could experience more often?

Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Annoyance, Anticipation, Apprehension, Apathy, Arrogance, Anxious
Bitterness, Boredom
Calmness, Cautiousness, Comfort, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
Depression, Determination, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight
Euphoria, Embarrassment, Envy, Ecstasy
Fear, Friendly, Frustration
Glad, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
Hate, Happiness, Homesick, Hope, Horror, Humility
Impatient, Inadequate, Irritability
Joy, Jealous
Kindness
Loneliness, Love, Lust
Melancholy
Nervous, Negativity
Pain, Paranoia, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
Rage, Regret, Remorse, Resentment
Sad, Self-pity, Shame, Shy, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
Thrill, Torment
Unhappiness
Vulnerable
Worry
Yearning

ZestThe Nature of Emotions Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity. What is an emotion? More than 90 definitions have been offered over the past century, and there are almost as many theories of emotion—not to mention a complex array of overlapping words in our languages to describe them. Robert Plutchik offers an integrative theory based on evolutionary principles. Emotions are adaptive—in fact, they have a complexity born of a long evolutionary history—and although we conceive of emotions as feeling states, Plutchik says the feeling state is part of a process involving both cognition and behavior and containing several feedback loops.

The Nature of Emotions
by Plutchik



Figure 1.
Author’s three-dimensional model describes the relations among emotion concepts, which are analogous to the colors on a color wheel. The cone’s vertical dimension representsintensity, and the circle represents degrees ofsimilarity among the emotions. The eight sectors are designed to indicate that there are eight primary emotion dimensions defined by the theory arranged as four pairs of opposites. 



Figure 2.
Generally, humans seek to re-establish an equilibrium state in their inner emotional life.  In human experience it is common to use the term “emotion” to describe the feeling state, but in fact emotion is considerably more complex.

By this author The Nature of Emotions * Feature Article July-August 2001 Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions in 1980 which consisted of 8 basic emotions and 8 advanced emotions each composed of 2 basic ones.

Basic Emotion Basic Opposite
Joy Sadness
Acceptance Disgust
Fear Anger
Surprise Anticipation
Sadness Joy
Disgust Acceptance
Anger Fear
Anticipation Surprise

Advanced Emotion Composed of... Advanced Opposite
Optimism Anticipation + Joy Disappointment
Love Joy + Acceptance Remorse
Submission Acceptance + Fear Contempt
Awe Fear + Surprise Aggressiveness
Disappointment Surprise + Sadness Optimism
Remorse Sadness + Disgust Love
Contempt Disgust + Anger Submission
Aggressiveness Anger + Anticipation Awe
Another conceptual model of emotions:

Primal Emotions Some people narrow down emotions into tight categories for simplicity:

5 Primal Emotions
Love Happiness Anger Sadness Fear
Feeling Mad Feeling Remorse Feeling Embarrassed
Feeling Shame
Primal Emotions build up to complex mental conditions that you don't feel but rather are
ACT LOVE ACT HAPPY ACT ANGRY ACT SAD ACT FEARFUL
Are respectful Are excited Are jealous Are disappointed Are nervous
Are satisfied Are irritated Are pitiful Are remorseful
Are proud Are hateful Are bored Are confused
Are calm Are disgusted Are depressed Are hopeful
Are confident Are frustrated Are courageous
Are careful
 
Emotions According to Different Psychologists A table which includes the number of different basic emotions that the psychologist indicated existed in parentheses. According to this, there are 5 basic human emotions agreed on by all psychologists: Fear, Anger, Disgust, Surprise, and Joy. There are 12 possible emotions in existence.

The Basic Human Emotions
Carroll Izard (10) Paul Ekman & Wallace Frisen (7) Robert Plutchik (8) Silvan Tomkins (9)
Fear Fear Fear Fear
Anger Anger Anger Anger
Disgust Disgust Disgust Disgust
Surprise Surprise Surprise Surprise
Joy Happiness Joyous Enjoyment
Shame Shame
Contempt Contempt Contempt
Sadness Sadness Sadness
Interest Anticipation Interest
Guilt
Acceptance
Distress

GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR WORKING WITH EMOTIONS:

  1. Recognizing emotions is the basis of self-knowledge and interaction.
  2. Emotions are connected with your own memories and observations, bringing them into your mind when needed.
  3. It is possible to experience deep joy only after you have recognized and lived through the negative emotions stored in your subconscious and your body.
  4. The possible emotional locks will open in their own time without breaking the ego only in a mutually respectful, safe and loving atmosphere.
  5. Repressed emotions may break out as symptoms in the body, crying, gestures, expressions, dreams or exaggerations in the emotional life.
  6. An emotion that has not been dealt with will come up to the conscious level when a person is ready to cope with it.
  7. Working with emotions may be more exhausting than mental or physical struggle.
  8. While the breathing is becoming freer it will also create a freer expression of emotions – and vice versa.
  9. Emotions can lead you astray or hide behind each other.
  10. Inner healing is possible.
  11. Our own beliefs, attitudes and verbalizing of our thoughts crucially affect our emotional lives.
  12. Faith is not dependent on emotions.

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