Positive emotions are necessary for each of us. Agree, without them life would be boring, gray and monotonous. Whether it's when we enjoy life, enjoy every day, get positive emotions from everything that surrounds us. However, emotions are short-lived, and we often have to "feed" ourselves in order to get positive sensations and emotions. Of course, each person has his own source of positive energy. We will tell you about some of the most popular of them.
Many of us get positive emotions from communicating with loved ones or friends. Communication helps to forget all adversity, difficulties, all bad emotions. The main thing is that your friends themselves do not splash out the negative on you. Meet friends, go to nature or cafes, enjoy the conversation. Especially it will be useful when you haven't seen each other for a long time. Meeting friends and family after a long separation is always uplifting.
Go on a trip or vacation
There is nothing better for getting rid of negative emotions than a change of scenery. Go on a trip to distant countries or go on vacation to the seaside, or to the mountains, and wherever you feel free from all the stresses and problems that have fallen on you. The main thing is not to drag them with you on a trip, but leave them at home. Having rested and having received positive emotions, it will be much easier for you to cope with them.
Find something to your liking
If you still do not have a hobby, then be sure to discover it for yourself. Doing what you love also helps to get rid of bad thoughts and emotions, and bring at least a little positive into life. A hobby can be anything, the main thing is that it does not harm you and your health, but brings only pleasure and joy.
Remember childhood fun
Why not?! In childhood, we did not think about problems, stress and other things that spoiled our mood and our precious health. Immerse yourself in childhood for a while, go rollerblading, skating or cycling, remember the childhood fun that you liked so much before. Phone your childhood friends and offer it to them, and then a good mood is guaranteed for you.
Treat yourself to a day of beauty and relaxation
Men, for example, can sign up for a pool, buy a gym membership, or treat themselves to a new, expensive suit. Women can visit a beauty salon, a solarium, or go shopping in search of a new sundress. In general, make yourself pleasant and please yourself for at least one day, and positive emotions will surely visit you.
Here are some tips on how to get positive emotions and get rid of negativity. Of course, everyone has the right to choose which method is closer to him, and perhaps from the listed methods, and there is no one at all that suits you. Then you just need to remember what brings you joy and happiness, and apply it right now! In any case, it is better to get rid of the negative, there is nothing good in it. Good luck!
It's hard for me to sort out my feelings - a phrase that each of us has come across: in books, in movies, in life (someone's or our own). But it is very important to be able to understand your feelings.
Wheel of Emotions by Robert Plutchik
Some believe - and perhaps they are right - that the meaning of life is in feelings. Indeed, at the end of life, only our feelings, real or in memories, remain with us. Yes, and the measure of what is happening can also be our experiences: the richer, more diverse, brighter they are, the more fully we feel life.
What are feelings? The simplest definition: feelings are what we feel. This is our attitude to certain things (objects). There is also a more scientific definition: feelings (higher emotions) are special mental states that are manifested by socially conditioned experiences that express a person’s long-term and stable emotional relationship to things.
How are feelings different from emotions?
Sensations are our experiences that we experience through the senses, and we have five of them. Sensations are visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and odor sensations (our sense of smell). With sensations, everything is simple: stimulus - receptor - sensation.
Our consciousness interferes with emotions and feelings - our thoughts, attitudes, our thinking. Emotions are influenced by our thoughts. And vice versa - emotions affect our thoughts. We will discuss these relationships in more detail a little later. But now let's remember once again one of the criteria for psychological health, namely point 10: we are responsible for our feelings, it depends on us what they will be. It is important.
Fundamental emotions
All human emotions can be distinguished by the quality of experience. This aspect of a person's emotional life is most clearly presented in the theory of differential emotions by the American psychologist K. Izard. He identified ten qualitatively different "fundamental" emotions: interest-excitement, joy, surprise, grief-suffering, anger-rage, disgust-disgust, contempt-neglect, fear-horror, shame-shyness, guilt-repentance. K. Izard classifies the first three emotions as positive, the remaining seven as negative. Each of the fundamental emotions underlies a whole range of states that differ in severity. For example, within the framework of such a single-modal emotion as joy, one can single out joy-satisfaction, joy-delight, joy-jubilation, joy-ecstasy, and others. From the combination of fundamental emotions, all other, more complex, complex emotional states arise. For example, anxiety can combine fear, anger, guilt, and interest.
1. Interest - a positive emotional state that contributes to the development of skills and abilities, the acquisition of knowledge. Interest-excitation is a feeling of capture, curiosity.
2. Joy - a positive emotion associated with the ability to sufficiently fully satisfy an urgent need, the probability of which before that was small or uncertain. Joy is accompanied by self-satisfaction and satisfaction with the surrounding world. Obstacles to self-realization are also obstacles to the emergence of joy.
3. Surprise - an emotional reaction that does not have a clearly expressed positive or negative sign to sudden circumstances. Surprise inhibits all previous emotions, directing attention to a new object and can turn into interest.
4. Suffering (grief) - the most common negative emotional state associated with the receipt of reliable (or seeming such) information about the impossibility of satisfying the most important needs, the achievement of which before that seemed more or less likely. Suffering has the character of asthenic emotion and more often occurs in the form of emotional stress. The most severe form of suffering is grief associated with irretrievable loss.
5. Anger - a strong negative emotional state, occurring more often in the form of affect; arises in response to an obstacle in achieving passionately desired goals. Anger has the character of a sthenic emotion.
6. Disgust - a negative emotional state caused by objects (objects, people, circumstances), contact with which (physical or communicative) comes into sharp conflict with the aesthetic, moral or ideological principles and attitudes of the subject. Disgust, when combined with anger, can motivate aggressive behavior in interpersonal relationships. Disgust, like anger, can be directed at oneself, lowering self-esteem and causing self-judgment.
7. Contempt - a negative emotional state that occurs in interpersonal relationships and is generated by a mismatch of life positions, views and behavior of the subject with those of the object of feeling. The latter are presented to the subject as base, not corresponding to accepted moral standards and ethical criteria. A person is hostile to those whom he despises.
8. Fear - a negative emotional state that appears when the subject receives information about the possible damage to his life well-being, about real or imagined danger. Unlike the suffering caused by direct blocking of the most important needs, a person, experiencing the emotion of fear, has only a probabilistic forecast of possible trouble and acts on the basis of this forecast (often insufficiently reliable or exaggerated). The emotion of fear can be both sthenic and asthenic in nature and proceed either in the form of stressful conditions, or in the form of a stable mood of depression and anxiety, or in the form of affect (horror).
9. Shame - a negative emotional state, expressed in the awareness of the inconsistency of one's own thoughts, actions and appearance not only with the expectations of others, but also with one's own ideas about proper behavior and appearance.
10. Guilt - a negative emotional state, expressed in the realization of the unseemliness of one's own act, thought or feelings and expressed in regret and repentance.
Table of human feelings and emotions
And I also want to show you a collection of feelings, emotions, states that a person experiences during his life - a generalized table that does not pretend to be scientific, but will help you better understand yourself. The table is taken from the site "Communities of dependent and co-dependent", the author is Mikhail.
All human feelings and emotions can be divided into four types. It is fear, anger, sadness and joy. To what type this or that feeling belongs can be found from the table.
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And for those who read the article to the end. The purpose of this article is to help you understand your feelings, what they are. Our feelings largely depend on our thoughts. Irrational thinking often underlies negative emotions. By correcting these mistakes (by working on our thinking), we can be happier and achieve more in life. There is an interesting, but persistent and painstaking work on oneself. You are ready?
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Endless identical gray everyday life, creeping one after another, can bring anyone to an oppressed state. But you can fill your life with colors with the help of positive emotions. There are many types of positive emotions, each of them will bring a positive charge into your world.
List of positive emotions:
- interest, interest, curiosity- the most frequently occurring emotion, motivates the development of thinking, knowledge, skills. Interest is the only motivation that supports the implementation of routine work. An interested person has a desire to expand their experience, to explore something new. With a strong interest, a person feels revival and inspiration.
- Astonishment- this is a passing emotion: it appears quickly and disappears just as quickly. Its function is to prepare a person for sudden or new events, successful actions.
- Joy- refers to the positive emotions of a person, characterized by a sense of confidence, significance, the ability to overcome difficulties and enjoy life. It is accompanied by satisfaction with oneself, the world and the people around, a sense of energy upsurge and one's own strength. Joy awakens when a person realizes his potential. Obstacles to self-realization prevent joy from arising.
- Happiness- the most powerful positive emotion. It occurs when a person reaches the goal or when this moment approaches. The road to happiness is in ideals, dreams, goals. They anticipate the result, contributing to the emergence of pleasant feelings. The more accessible and closer the goal, the less the feeling of happiness. A person who wants to experience happiness to the fullest must determine his abilities and achieve difficult, distant goals.
- Gratitude- arises when a person feels gratitude, understands that he has received some benefit.
- Hope- this is optimism, the belief that everything will be fine in the end result. Problems do not seem unresolved, a person sees the future bright and believes that his desires will come true, no matter what.
- tranquility- appears when everything is going as it should, you feel relaxed and calm. Your mind is not burdened with worries. Peace comes in a moment of calm and tranquility when you can just enjoy the present.
- Trembling we feel a flare of awe and curiosity about something incredibly delightful. It can be amazing natural phenomena, works of art, technological achievements. At such moments, the understanding comes that we are just a grain in a vast world.
How to get positive emotions?
The world of emotions pervades all human life: communication, interaction with people, activity and cognition. The impact of positive emotions is enormous: they expand habitual actions and thoughts, create personal resources, make us cheerful, and improve health and well-being over time.
Positive emotions are human states that bring positive feelings. Everyone knows what the expectation of success is, the feeling of happiness, satisfaction or trust. Everyone has experienced love at least once in their lives.
Why did nature reward humanity with a gift - the ability to experience positive emotions? They make you feel happy and energetic. It is these states that help people achieve their goals, as well as make life happier and improve relationships with others.
How to evoke positive emotions if you have Use the tips below.
Tune in immediately after waking up to the positive. Say to yourself, “Today is a beautiful day. I radiate a smile, goodwill and happiness.”
If you feel that the blues suddenly began to find, close your eyes and imagine how one of your dreams came true.
When you feel anger, frustration, and other negative emotions, read a positive book, watch a comedy, turn on a fun song.
Remember that negative thoughts come to mind more easily and it is difficult to get rid of them. Therefore, as soon as they begin to overcome you, immediately switch to happy memories.
Use positive statements - affirmations. They can be easily found in the books of such writers as: N. Pravdina, L. Hay, etc. There are a lot of affirmations on the websites of the following topics: esotericism, psychology, etc. You can invent them yourself. For example, “Luck is always with me”, “Fortune always helps me”, “Success for me” and others.
If you have to communicate with unpleasant people during the day, try to fill yourself with a feeling of understanding and warmth before talking with them. You will gradually change the attitude towards those who are unsympathetic to you.
Always avoid talking to negative people. Seek to talk to leaders who are wealthy. They always have positive emotions and thoughts.
Even if you have an unpleasant life situation, go to the mirror, smile through your strength. Tell yourself: “Everything is changing only for the better.” And remember that there is a way out of every problem, and you will find it.
Stop watching news, horror movies, thrillers, crime. They fill you with negative thoughts. You will remember the situations you saw for a long time and lure similar problems and troubles into your life.
Positive emotions create yoga classes, qigong. Practice meditation, chant mantras, study feng shui. Oriental arts were originally created to invoke inner peace and surround a person with abundance, goodness and joy.
Program yourself before going to bed for a good rest. This will help the practice of relaxation. First concentrate on the toes of the right foot, relax them, then the foot, lower leg, thigh, etc. Alternately move your attention along the legs, arms. Then relax your body, neck, head. As a result, you will no longer feel your body, you will feel lightness and freedom. At these moments, imagine something pleasant and gradually fall asleep. All night long, the subconscious mind will work to fulfill your desires. And in the morning you will wake up with a good mood.
So what are emotions? Positive and negative. The former simplify life, create successful situations and help to avoid many problems and disagreements. Negative emotions are the path to depression and blues. They complicate life with scandals, despondency. And when a person is under their influence, the world seems gray and hateful. Change your inner feelings with the help of the methods described above, and your life will become bright, and good luck will always accompany you. Every day will delight with new events and pleasant changes.
1. About the benefits of positive emotions
It is known from psychology that man very much needed positive emotions . We just need for our mental and physical well-being to smile as often as possible, to be in a state of satisfaction, happiness, optimism,. The more often this happens to us, the more confident and comfortable we feel in life, the more active and creatively oriented we are, the better our relationships with others, and the more positive our worldview in general. At the same time, our physical and mental health remains strong for a long time.
Scientists have proven that positive emotions extremely positive effect on our physical health and well-being. When we rejoice, laugh, smile, amazing transformations take place in our body: all spasms, clamps, tensions relax in it, blood circulation of all tissues and organs improves, the immune system is activated, vitality arrives, inflammations and tumors resolve.
There are many known cases where positive emotions people were cured of the most severe, incurable diseases.
2. About the causes of the deficit of positive emotions in modern life
However, a person's life is too hard, difficult, sad, full of experiences and stresses, difficult circumstances, illnesses, obstacles, and he is often not at all up to joy, not to laughter, not to positive emotions
. This is especially true for modern life. After all, the range of our stress factors has expanded: we are no longer worried only about the problems of our own and our loved ones. Television alone daily loads us with the horrors and sufferings of all mankind, “entertains” us with horror films, bloody scenes and scenes of violence, social conflicts, strains us with political battles, and so on and so forth.
Well, problems with one’s own health, work, money, bosses, relatives only reinforce this whole bunch of negative experiences ...
Maybe that's why Ukrainians, Russians, residents of other CIS countries, are so bleak in their mass? Maybe that's why harsh statistics tell us every year about the rapidly declining number of our indigenous population; about the growth of crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, homelessness, about the birth of children with disabilities, deaths from AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular diseases?
No, television, of course, is trying to somehow compensate for the excess of negative information and supplies us with all kinds of shows, musical concerts, performances by comedians, comedies, tries to set us up for a wave of positive emotions ... Probably, this is what helps us somehow stay afloat. ..
However, statistics on all social parameters are still bleak. It continues to show a sharp deterioration in all the vital parameters of our population.compared with the Soviet period, a reduction in its numbers.
3. What is the way out?
What to do: how to bring back into our lives, return optimism and happiness to our families, how to stop the mortality and degeneration of the population?
Our people, as in ancient times, continues to hope for a new "good" father-king-president, takes an active part in election battles, is indignant, protests against social injustices, conflicts with the authorities and with each other, condemns some politicians, hopes for others ... Is it only in them, in politicians, in presidents, is there a way out ?.
Maybe the reason for our negative emotions and experiences is not in politicians, presidents and mayors, not in the circumstances of life, but in ourselves? Probably, it is we ourselves who do not know how to rejoice at what we have, we do not know how, and together with them love life and her? Perhaps that is why politicians come out of our midst so unprincipled, greedy, heartless?
So maybe the way out all the same - in the restoration of public morality and morality, in the revival of Christianity, as a nationwide, nationwide religion, the bearer of enduring moral values?
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