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Emotions – How To Understand, Identify and Release Your Emotions. Home -> Free Articles - Emotions - How To Understand, Identify Release Your Emotions. · What Are Emotions – Feelings? Different people define emotions in different ways. Some make a distinction between emotions and feelings saying that a feeling is the response part of the emotion and that an emotion includes the situation or experience, the interpretation, the perception, and the response or feeling related to the experience of a particular situation. For the purposes of this article, I use the terms interchangeably. John D. (Jack) Mayer says, “Emotions operate on many levels.

They have a physical aspect as well as a psychological aspect. Dr. . · Why Bother With Emotions: Emotions control your thinking, behavior and actions. . · Belief Systems Underlying much of our behavior is what is called a belief system. Your belief system affects your perceptions or how you interpret what you see, hear and feel. . · Other People, Places, and Things Cannot Change How You Feel · Physical Effects of Emotions.

How do our daily emotions come out when we dream. Although we're not entirely sure why it is that we dream, there are many theories on the topic. One theory says that dreams go hand in hand with our emotions. During the day, our brains are too busy focusing on the tasks at hand to process all of our emotional responses. When we sleep, our brains don't need to focus on the external world, so we're left to work out the emotional side of things. For example, perhaps there have been rumors of downsizing at work. While you're there, you need to be professional and productive, so you put thoughts of losing your job on the backburner. Later, after you've fallen asleep, you dream that you're alone, wandering through a deserted town.

Or perhaps you dream that you show up to work only to find that no one there knows you and your office is occupied by someone else. New research has shown that it may be the sleep in which dreams occur that really helps to reset the day's emotions; the dreams simply run through them. Dream Moods Dream Themes: Feelings & Emotions. The emotions in your dream are usually never disguised. This means that the feelings you experience in your dream are not symbolic of something else, but rather they are reflections of your true, honest feelings.

Such feelings may have been suppressed during the day and are being expressed in your dreams where your defenses are down. Feelings expressed in dreams can help you deal with depression, guilt, and other complex emotions. Negative emotions tend to occur twice as often as pleasant feelings. Fear and anxiety are the most commonly expressed emotions in dreams, followed by anger and sadness. Abhorrence To dream that you abhor a person suggests your waking dislike for some person. To dream that you are being abhorred by others symbolizes that your good intentions to others will subside into selfishness. Afraid To dream that you are afraid indicates that you are experiencing self-doubt and feelings of incompetence in your waking life. Aggression Amorous Anger Animosity Annoyed Anxiety Delight. Center. Freud's Approach to Dreams. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued.

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