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THEY SHAPE US. THEY DO NOT DEFINE US.
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PONDERING THE PHOBIA ~ The Words of Fear
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RIDING THE CRAZY TRAIN

Guide to Understanding Your Emotions
​Your feelings and emotions matter. They mean something to you. They affect your life. They are a part of you. It’s normal. The secret is to own them and not let them own you. They do not define you..
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SECRETS OF THE HEART

Defining and Understanding the Meaning of Attraction, Lust, Affection, Love, Sex
​Love. We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it. When we don’t have it, we search for it; when we discover it, we don’t know what to do with it; and when we have it, we fear losing it. How do we define it?
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BE MINDFUL BE WELL

Series of mindfulness centered self care
​Learn the principles of compassionate self care and how to integrate mindfulness principles in the care and growth of your emotional health.
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SPIN THE WHEEL
​OF EMOTIONS


​BLENDING OF EMOTIONS
​Robert Plutchik developed the "wheel of emotions" suggesting eight primary emotions are grouped on a positive or negative basis.
  • Joy versus sadness
  • Anger versus fear
  • Trust versus disgust
  • Surprise versus anticipation

All other emotions are mixed or derivative states; they occur as combinations, mixtures, or compounds of the primary emotions.
  • Primary emotions can be conceptualized in terms of pairs of polar opposites.
  • All emotions vary in their degree of similarity to one another.
  • Each emotion can exist in varying degrees of intensity or levels of arousal.

Basic emotions can be modified to form complex emotions. The complex emotions could arise from cultural conditioning or association combined with the basic emotions. Similar to the way primary colors combine, primary emotions blend to form the full spectrum of human emotional experience. For example, anger and disgust could blend to form contempt. Relationships exist between basic emotions, resulting in positive or negative influences.

​CATEGORIES OF EMOTIONS
There are 27 distinct categories of emotions.
  • Admiration
  • Adoration
  • Aesthetic Appreciation
  • Amusement
  • Anxiety
  • Awe
  • Awkwardness
  • Boredom
  • Calmness
  • Confusion
  • Craving
  • Disgust
  • Empathetic pain
  • Entrancement
  • Envy
  • Excitement
  • Fear
  • Horror
  • Interest
  • Joy
  • Nostalgia
  • Romance
  • Sadness
  • Satisfaction
  • Sexual desire
  • Sympathy
  • Triumph
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What Are Positive Emotions?
Positive emotions are emotions that we typically find pleasurable to experience. They are defined as “pleasant or desirable situational responses… distinct from pleasurable sensation and undifferentiated positive affect.” Basically, this definition is stating that positive emotions are pleasant responses to our environment (or our own internal dialogue) that are more complex and targeted than simple sensations.

Some common positive emotions include:
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Satisfaction
  • Contentment
  • Interest
  • Amusement
  • Happiness
  • Serenity
  • Awe

Positive emotions can increase our performance on a cognitive task by lifting our spirits and not distracting us like negative emotions do. They can trigger the reward pathways in the brain, contributing to lower levels of a stress hormone and greater well-being. And they may help us broaden our horizons and widen our brain’s scope of focus.

What Are Negative Emotions?
Negative emotions are those that we typically do not find pleasurable to experience. Negative emotions can be defined as “as an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative effect towards an event or person” If an emotion discourages and drags you down, then it’s most likely a negative emotion.

A few of the most commonly felt negative emotions are:
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Disgust
  • Sadness
  • Rage
  • Loneliness
  • Melancholy
  • Annoyance

Negative emotions give us a counterpoint to positive emotions; without the negative, would the positive emotions still feel as good? Negative emotions serve evolutionary purposes, encouraging us to act in ways that boost our chances of survival and help us grow and develop as people.

There are good reasons for both positive and negative emotions.
  • Anger: to fight against problems
  • Fear: to protect us from danger
  • Anticipation: to look forward and plan
  • Surprise: to focus on new situations
  • Joy: to remind us what’s important
  • Sadness: to connect us with those we love
  • Trust: to connect with people who help
  • Disgust: to reject what is unhealthy

List Of Common Feelings
There are many different feelings people experience. The most common ones are easily defined and recognized. And then there are the ones we can’t easily recognize. And we also have feelings that cannot be defined because we do not understand them. They are obscure and they may scare you because you can’t figure them out.

  • Admiration: A feeling of delighted approval and liking.
  • Adoration: A feeling of profound love and admiration.
  • Affection: A gentle feeling of fondness or liking.
  • Agitation: Feeling troubled or nervous.
  • Agony: Intense feelings of suffering.
  • Alarm: An anxious awareness of danger.
  • Alienation: The feeling of being alienated (socially disoriented) from other people.
  • Amazement: A feeling of great surprise or wonder.
  • Ambiguphobia: To feel uncomfortable about leaving things open to interpretation.
  • Amusement: A feeling of delight at being entertained.
  • Anger: A strong feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.
  • Anguish: Extreme mental distress.
  • Animosity: A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility.
  • Annoyance: Slightly angry; irritated.
  • Anticipation: An emotion involving pleasure, excitement, or anxiety in considering or awaiting an expected event; suspense.
  • Anxiety: A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune.
  • Apathy: An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
  • Apprehension: Anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
  • Attachment: Affection, fondness, or sympathy for someone or something.
  • Attraction: An interest, desire in, or gravitation to something or someone.
  • Aversion: A strong dislike or disinclination
  • Awe: A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
  • Basorexia: The sudden urge to kiss someone.
  • Bemusement: Puzzled or confused resulting from failure to understand; perplexed.
  • Bewilderment: A subconscious desire to frustrate ourselves, preventing us from pursuing our goals or achieving the success we crave.
  • Bitterness: A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
  • Bliss: A state of extreme happiness.
  • Boredom: An emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious.
  • Calmness: The mental state of peace of mind being free from agitation, excitement, disturbance, mental stress or anxiety; tranquillity; serenity.
  • Carefreeness: The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.
  • Caring: Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others.
  • Cheerfulness: A feeling of spontaneous good spirits.
  • Comfort: A sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterized as a lack of hardship.
  • Compassion: Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
  • Compersion: An empathetic state of happiness and joy experienced when another individual experiences happiness and joy.
  • Confidence: The feeling that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something.
  • Contempt: The feeling that a person or a thing is worthless or beneath consideration; scornful; disdain.
  • Contentment: An emotional state of satisfaction may be drawn from being at ease in one’s situation, body, and mind.
  • Courage: To be brave and confident enough to do what you believe in
  • Craving: An intense desire for some particular thing.
  • Curiosity: A strong desire to know or learn something.
  • Cynicism: A cynical feeling of distrust.
  • Defeat: The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals.
  • Delight: A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
  • Desire: A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
  • Despair: The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.
  • Devotion: Feelings of ardent love.
  • Disappointment: A feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized.
  • Discontentment: A longing for something better than the present situation.
  • Discouragement: The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles.
  • Disgruntlement: A feeling of sulky discontent.
  • Disgust: A feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.
  • Dislike: A feeling of distaste or hostility.
  • Dismay: A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits.
  • Displeasure: A feeling of annoyance or disapproval.
  • Distaste: A feeling of intense dislike; antipathy.
  • Distraughtness: Very worried and upset.
  • Distress: Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
  • Doubt: A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.
  • Dread: Fearful expectation or anticipation; trepidation.
  • Eagerness: Enthusiasm to do or to have something; keenness.
  • Ecstasy: An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
  • Elation: An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression.
  • Embarrassment: A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • Empathy: Understanding and entering into another’s feelings.
  • Enthrallment: A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual.
  • Enthusiasm: Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
  • Entrancement: A feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment.
  • Envy: A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck. Yes
  • Euphoria: A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
  • Evighed (Danish): The felt eternity of the present moment.
  • Exasperation: A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
  • Excitement: A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.
  • Ferocity: Savagely fierce, cruel, or violent.
  • Fraud, feeling like a: A person intended to deceive others.
  • Fright: An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
  • Frustration: The feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.
  • Fury: Wild or violent anger.
  • Gaiety: A festive merry feeling.
  • Glee: Great delight, especially from one’s own good fortune or another’s misfortune.
  • Glumness: A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.
  • Gratitude: A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation.
  • Grief: Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone’s death.
  • Guilt: Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.
  • Happiness: State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
  • Hatred: Intense dislike which could invoke feelings of animosity, anger or resentment.
  • Heebie-Jeebies, the: A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea.
  • Helplessness: A feeling of being unable to manage; powerlessness.
  • Hoard, the urge to: Store valuables.
  • Homefulness: The feeling of home.
  • Homesickness: A feeling of longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it.
  • Horror: An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
  • Hostility: Feeling opposition or dislike; unfriendliness.
  • Huff, in a: A state of irritation or annoyance.
  • Humble, feeling: Modest or low estimate of one’s importance.
  • Humiliation: Strong feelings of embarrassment.
  • Hunger: A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.
  • Hurt: Emotional pain or distress; psychological suffering.
  • Hysteria: Excessive or uncontrollable fear or excitement.
  • Impatience: A restless desire for change and excitement.
  • Indifference: Lack of interest, concern, or sympathy.
  • Indignation: Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.
  • Infatuation: An intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.
  • Inhabitiveness: The willingness to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home.
  • Insecurity: Uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence.
  • Insulted, feeling: disrespected or scornful because of a remark or an act.
  • Interest: The feeling of wanting to know or learn about something or someone.
  • Irritation: The state of feeling annoyed, impatient, or slightly angry.
  • Jealousy: Feeling an envious resentment of someone or their achievements, possessions, or perceived advantages.
  • Joviality: Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor.
  • Joy: A feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
  • Jubilation: A feeling of great happiness and triumph; rejoicing.
  • Listlessness: A feeling of lack of interest or energy.
  • Loathing: a feeling of intense dislike or disgust; hatred or abhorrence.
  • Loneliness: Sadness because one has no friends or company.
  • Love: A strong positive emotion of regard and affection.
  • Lust: Strong sexual desire.
  • Melancholy: A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
  • Miffed: Somewhat annoyed; peeved.
  • Misery: A feeling of great mental distress or discomfort.
  • Morbid curiosity: Curiosity focused on objects of death, violence, or any other event that may cause harm physically or emotionally.
  • Morbidness: An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind.
  • Nervousness: The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters; agitated or alarmed.
  • Nostalgia: A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.
  • Optimism: Hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.
  • Outrage: An extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation; a feeling of righteous anger.
  • Overwhelmed, feeling: Strong emotional effect from overpowering feelings.
  • Panic: An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
  • Paranoia: The irrational and persistent feeling that people are ‘out to get you’.
  • Passion: A feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something.
  • Perversity: A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way.
  • Pessimism: The feeling that things will turn out badly.
  • Philoprogenitiveness: Love towards one’s offspring.
  • Pique, a fit of: A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one’s pride.
  • Pity: The feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the sufferings and misfortunes of others.
  • Pleasure: a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment.
  • Postal, going: Becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence.
  • Pride: A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of one’s close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.
  • Pronoia: Feeling that the world around you conspires to do you good; opposite of paranoia.
  • Rage: Violent uncontrollable anger.
  • Rapture: A feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
  • Regret: A feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over an occurrence or something that one has done or failed to do.
  • Relaxation: A feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry.
  • Relief: A feeling of reassurance and relaxation following release from anxiety or distress.
  • Reluctance: Unwillingness or disinclination to do something.
  • Remorse: A feeling of deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
  • Reproachfulness: Expressing disapproval or disappointment with disgrace or shame.
  • Repugnance: Intense disgust.
  • Resentment: A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
  • Road rage: Aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by a driver of a road vehicle, which includes rude and offensive gestures, verbal insults, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted toward another driver or a pedestrian in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.
  • Romance: A feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.
  • Sadness: An emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow.
  • Satisfaction: The contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation.
  • Self-pity: Excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one’s own troubles.
  • Sentimentality: Exaggerated and self-indulgent tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
  • Shame: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
  • Shock: The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally.
  • Shyness: A feeling of fear of embarrassment.
  • Smugness: Excessive pride in oneself or one’s achievements.
  • Sorrow: A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.
  • Spite: A desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone; feeling a need to see others suffer.
  • Stress: A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.
  • Sulkiness: A sullen moody resentful disposition.
  • Surprise: The astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you.
  • Suspicion: A feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.
  • Tension: A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.
  • Terror: An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
  • Thrill: A sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure.
  • Triumph: A state of joy or exultation at success.
  • Umpty: A feeling of everything’s being “too much” and all in the wrong way.
  • Vengefulness: A malevolent desire for revenge.
  • Viral: The realization of love through separation.
  • Vulnerability: Feeling exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed.
  • Wanderlust: A strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.
  • Warm glow: Altruistic pleasure.
  • Wonder: A feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar
  • Worry: The state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems.
  • Wrath: Extreme anger.
  • Yearning: A feeling of intense longing for something.
  • Zeal: Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective; strong eagerness.
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THEY SHAPE US. THEY DO NOT DEFINE US.
EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS​ - Home Feelings from the Dark Side of the Moon - darker emotions and feelings
Untranslatable Words for Emotions - universal words of the feelings with no English equivalent
​ Capacity for Love - a look at love, affection, sex and relationships.
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PONDERING THE PHOBIA
Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
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Story of Soulmates - View | File ​​​​​
Greek Origins of Erotic Vocabulary ~ View | File
The Defining Story of the Kiss ~ View | File
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