Quotes About Emotions

breakups mean flowers.

Some people have censored so much of themselves for so long that they forget what it is they do feel and think.

Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad luck accidents or impoverished social relations can stem from self-imposed guilt.

Our attention is focused on classifying, analyzing, and determining levels of wrongness rather than on what we and others need and are not getting.

As is often the case, these groups were more skilled in analyzing the perceived wrongness of others than in clearly expressing their own needs.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be "violent," words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or ourselves. In

feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment.

The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs.

When people are upset, they often need empathy before they can hear what is being said to them.

appreciation expressed in this form reveals little of what's going on in the speaker;

the pleasureful feelings engendered by the fulfillment of those needs

Participant: Well, you're so intelligent.

Aggression is built into the ego system, which totally focuses on "I, me, and mine" whenever conflict arises.

In most cases, however, another step needs to take place before we can expect the other party to connect with what is going on in us. Because it will often be difficult for others to receive our feelings and needs in such situations, if we want them to hear us we would need first to empathize with them. The more we empathize with what leads them to behave in the ways that are not meeting our needs, the more likely it is that they will be able to reciprocate afterwards.

This difficulty in identifying and expressing feelings is common, and in my experience, especially so among lawyers, engineers, police officers, corporate managers, and career military personnel—people whose professional codes discourage them from manifesting emotions.

MBR: I'm not able to get as much out of your appreciation as I would like.

MBR: Ah, so it's my saying those two things that you appreciate.

Participant: Hopeful and relieved.

Mucho antes de llegar a la adultez aprendí a comunicarme de una forma impersonal que no requería revelar lo que estaba sucediendo dentro de mí.

MBR: And now I'd like to know what needs of yours were fulfilled by my saying those two things.

Temos quatro opções quando escutamos uma mensagem difícil: 1. Culpar a nós mesmos; 2. Culpar os outros; 3. Perceber nossos próprios sentimentos e necessidades; 4. Perceber os sentimentos e necessidades dos outros.

Somos peligrosos cuando no somos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad hacia cómo nos comportamos, pensamos y sentimos.

Iam not easily frightened. Not because I am brave but because I know that I am dealing with human beings, and that I must try as hard as I can to understand everything that anyone ever does.