FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS Your feelings are called emotions and it is normal for you to feel many different ones, ranging from sad, to disappointed, to happy and full of joy. Each week a different emotion is included for you to think about. 8 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z accepting, afraid, alert, amazed, ambitious, amused, angry, annoyed, anxious, ashamed, at ease, aware bad, bored, brave, beautiful, bold, bubbly calm, careful, caring, cautious, charmed, cheerful, clever, comfortable, confident, compassionate, confused, creative, cruel, curious daring, delighted, depressed, determined, different, dirty, disappointed, disturbed, down, dull eager, easy-going, embarrassed, empathy, empty, energetic, enjoyable, enthusiastic, exhausted, excited, explosive fabulous, false, fantastic, forgive, free, fresh, friendly, frightened, full, funny generous, gentle, giggly, giving, glad, good, gorgeous, grateful, great, greedy, grumpy happy, healthy, heartened, helpful, helpless, high, homesick, honest, hopeful, hopeless, horrible, humble, hurt, hyper ignored, impatient, impressed, interested, involved jealous, jinxed, jolly, joy, jumpy keen, kind lazy, left out, likeable, lively, logical, lonely, lousy, lovable, loved, loving, low, loyal mad, merry, miserable, mixed up nasty, needy, negative, nervous, nice, not good enough, numb odd, open-minded, overlooked, over the moon pain, patient, peaceful, persistent, playful, pleased, positive, powerful, powerless, proud, pushy, put out, puzzled quiet rejected, relaxed, respectful, responsible, restless, rested sad, safe, satisfied, scared, secure, selfish, settled, shame, shining, shocked, shy, silly, sorry, spellbound, spot-on, strong, stunned, stupid, sulky, sure, surprised teased, tense, thankful, thoughtful, thrilled, tired, trust, trusted unhappy, unsafe, uplifted, upset, unwanted, upset, used, useful, useless valued wanted, weak, weary, wonderful, worthless, worthy, worried, wronged zany “There is no chance, only choice.” MW Sourced from Philosophy 101: Critical Thinking and Reachout
glad, mad, sad feelings To help you to build your understanding of the different emotions you may feel, put some of the emotions from page 8 into the Glad, Mad, Sad diagram below. There is no right or wrong, it is just about where you think they may fit at the moment. If you like you can draw little pictures of where you think you could feel each emotion on your body. When you are doing this, you are exploring your best possible self. Your teacher may wish to use Glad, Mad, Sad from Thinking Tools on the website. GLAD Emotions which make you feel happy with yourself or others or the world MAD Emotions which make you feel angry with yourself or others or the world SAD Emotions which make you feel disappointed with yourself or others or the world 9 “It’s not what happens to you, but what happens in you.” W. Mitchell