Emotion: How to Use it Effectively in Counseling

1. Emotion: How to Use it Effectively in Counseling

5. EMOTIONS

6. How Do You Deal With Emotions? 1. I fling the door open and let it all show 2. I open the door but keep my hand on the handle 3. I open the door halfway and see what happens 4. I open the door a crack—just to show I’m alive 5. I check who’s there through the peep hole 6. I keep the door locked and bolted 7. Where’s the door?

7. “Our feelings are always with us, but we are too seldom with them.” “…emotions have their own agenda…but our rushed lives give them no space…” Goleman,Daniel (1998).

8. Men and Women’s Brains are Different 1. The amygdala 2. The hippocampus 3. The hypothalamus

9. The Secret Life of the Brain “We are feelings machines that think” —The Adult Brain

10. We Think in Emotional Footprints 2.5 milliseconds—we felt something 250 milliseconds—we thought about it We then re-filed it under a different feeling

11. Why is The Identification of Feelings Important? Behaviors Feelings GAPS Life Disk Trauma Disk

12. Plutchik’s Theory of Emotions

13. Plutchik: Primary and Mixed Emotions

14. Theoretical Perspectives on Feelings

15. “Feelings are windows, although perhaps broken, that give you insight and understanding as to defenses, coping mechanisms, survival strategies and beliefs. Just like a doctor, the “pain” (emotions), although symptomatic, may help lead you to the underlying cause.”

16. Three Circles Thoughts Thoughts THOUGHTS FEELINGS Feelings Feelings

17. Life Circles Surface Cliches Facts Ideas Real Self EMOTIONS Nobody Knows Life Circles Technique of Arnold Lazarus Lazarus, A.A. (1989). The practice of multimodal therapy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.

19. Vocabulary of Feelings

20. Different Feelings

21. The Emotions of Grief

22. The Feeling Wheel

25. Feeling Faces

26. Smiley Faces

28. Limitations of Facial Expressions Humans use 250,000 facial signals and 700,000 physical signals when communicating with each other. Often these signals are combined: Illus: Confused

29. Nonverbal Communication Skills 93% of emotional meaning is conveyed without words; 55% through facial expressions, body postures, and gestures; and 38% through tone of voice. Elksnin, Linda and Elksnin, Nick (2003).

30. Body-Based Emotional Descriptors Ice in his veins No room to breathe Makes me want to vomit No leg to stand on No intestinal fortitude Pain in the neck Saving face Spineless Galls me Tears me up inside Tight-lipped Blood boiling Heartache Gut wrenching Can’t stomach that Cold Shoulder

32. FEELINGS WORDS

33. The Color of FeelingsFeelingsUnlimited.com

34. Two Essential Components to Facilitate Change 1. Acknowledgement 2. Ownership

35. Creating Acknowledgement And Ownership

37. How We Reject Feelings 1. By DEFENDING or EXPLAINING ourselves 2. By APOLOGIZING before out mate understands we understand the feelings that were shared 3. By ATTACKING our partner with a defense 4. By ADVISING our partner 5. By CORRECTING the other

38. How We Accept Feelings 1. REFLECTING—“It sounds as if you feel” 2. CLARIFYING—“Are you saying that…” 3. EXPLORING—“I’m not sure what you mean…”