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Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways

Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways. Ms. Sauvageau’s Health Education. Emotions. Signals that tell your mind and body how to react. Common Emotions: -Happiness -Guilt -Sadness -Anger -Love -Hostility -Fear

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Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways

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  1. Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways Ms. Sauvageau’s Health Education

  2. Emotions • Signals that tell your mind and body how to react. Common Emotions:-Happiness -Guilt-Sadness -Anger-Love -Hostility-Fear • Hormones: chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells

  3. Empathy • The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.

  4. Defense Mechanisms • Mental Processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations. -Can be used when dealing with fear, guilt, or anger

  5. Defense Mechanisms • Repression: involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind. • Regression: returning to behaviors characteristic of younger age, rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner. • Denial: unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others. • Projection: attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group.

  6. Defense Mechanisms • Suppression: consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind. • Rationalization: making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it. • Compensation: making up for weaknesses and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts.

  7. How do you deal with your emotions? • Do something to relax -music, read, walk • Channel your energy in a different direction-walk, run, piano, guitar, art, write • Talk with someone you trust-call friend/family • Others?

  8. Communication Styles • Aggressive: overly forceful, pushy, or hostile • Passive: unwilling or unable to express thoughts and feelings in a direct or firm manner. • Assertive: expressing your views clearly and respectfully.

  9. Active Listening • Paying close attention to what someone is saying and communicating.-Don’t interrupt-Show interest-Restate what you hear-Ask questions-Show empathy

  10. “I” vs. You Statements • A statement that focuses on your feelings rather than on someone else’s behavior. • Helps you communicate your feelings in a positive way without placing blame on someone else. -I really don’t like……-I feel…….-I bothers me when I…….

  11. Body Language • Nonverbal communication through gestures, facial expressions, behaviors, and posture. • Sometimes the messages don’t mix, could contradict one another.

  12. Resilient • The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.

  13. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs • A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential. • Self-actualization: to strive to be the best you can.

  14. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

  15. Constructive Criticism • Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement. • Examples?

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