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

• Hormones: chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells

Empathy

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDb5jQqXXVU Stop at 0:43.

Defense Mechanisms

• Mental Processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.

-Can be used when dealing with fear, guilt, or anger

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoaee7hE3_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYswI36eCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKF1u-TOXuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5Kag5cfyU

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s2BUQFIkpU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfxGR0K9jA 2:00-3:20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_WpYc3YI4

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?

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qra604RbU

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

“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…….

Body Language

• Nonverbal communication through gestures, facial expressions, behaviors, and posture.

• Sometimes the messages don’t mix, could contradict one another.

Resilient

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

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.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Constructive Criticism

• Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement.

• Examples?