1. Expressing Emotions in Healthy Ways
Lesson 8
Expressing Emotions in Healthy Ways

2. Ways to express emotions
Spoken words
Written or printed words,
Sign language,
Actions

3. What are some types of emotions
Communication: sharing of emotions, thoughts, and information with another person
Emotion: a specific feeling.
What are some types of emotions

4. Names of Types of Emotions
Depressed
Optimistic
Disgusted
Rejected
Envious
Jealous
Stressed
Excited
Happy
Anxious
Lonely
Angry
Loving
Anxious
Nervous
Sad
Frustrated
Shy
Surprised
Afraid

5. Mind-body connection: close relationship between mental and physical responses.
Psychosomatic disease: a physical disorder caused or aggravated by emotional responses.

6. 5 Guidelines to Express Emotions in Healthy Ways
Identify the emotion
Identify the source of the emotion
Decide whether or not you need to respond immediately
Choose a responsible and healthful response
Protect your health

7. Nonverbal communications & mixed messages
Actions also express how you feel
Nonverbal behavior: use of actions to express emotions and thoughts
Mixed message: message that gives out two different meaning.

8. I-Messages
I-message: a statement that contains a specific behavior or event, the effect of the behavior or event on a person, and the emotions that result.
Express emotions without blaming someone
You-message: a statement that blames or shames another person.
Puts down another person for what they have done

9. Active Listening
Active listening: a way of responding to show that a person hears and understands.
Ask more information (clarify response)
Repeat what the speaker has said in their words
Summarize the response
Acknowledge and show appreciation for the speaker’s feelings (confirm response)

10. Why Don’t You Listen? Thinking of something or someone else
Could not hear the speaker
Tired, sleepy, dozing off
Thinking about what to say next
Distracted by something else
You thought you knew what the speaker was going to say next

11. ANGER Anger: the feeling of being irritated or annoyed.
Usually the response to being hurt, frustrated, insulted or rejected.
Anger trigger: a thought or event that causes a person to become angry.
Anger cue: a body change that occurs when a person is angry.
Fight or flight response

12. Anger Cues: Rapid breathing Increased heart rate
Rise in blood pressure
Increased sweating
Sweaty palms
Dryness of mouth
Increased alertness
Decreased sensitivity to pain
Increased muscle strength
Tensed eyebrows
Pursed lips
Reddening of the face

13. HIDDEN ANGER
Hidden anger: anger that is not recognized and is expressed in an inappropriate way.
Hostility syndrome: a physical state in which the body is in the fight or flight state at all times.
Serotonin: chemical that regulates primitive drives and emotions.

14. HIDDEN ANGER
Projection: blaming others for actions or events for which they are not responsible.
Displacement: releasing of anger on someone or something other than the cause of the anger.

15. Anger Management Skills
Healthy ways to control and express anger

16. 10 Anger Management Skills
Anger self-inventory
What am I feeling?
What is causing me to feel this way
Is my anger justified
Am I still angry
What are healthy ways to express my anger
Use self-statements to control anger
Words a person can say to themselves when they experience anger triggers and cues.

17. Use I-messages instead of you-messages
Write a letter
Write a journal
Reduce the effects of anger cues with physical activity
Use safe physical actions to blow of steam
Keep a sense of humor
Rehearse what to do in situations that you know triggers anger
Talk with parents or mentor.