1. Understanding Your Emotions
CHAPTER 8 LESSON 3
Understanding Your Emotions

2. Understanding your emotions
Emotions – are signals that tell your mind and body how to react
Fight or Flight -When you are In a dangerous situation, emotions such as fear can trigger the body to and mind to protect you by causing you to shout or flee

3. Understanding Your Emotions
Emotions such as Joy can prompt the release of brain chemicals that not only cause warm, happy feelings but also promote mental health

4. Understanding Your Emotions
Strong emotions like anger can cause physical changes within your body
- increased heart rate
- Perspiration
- Tightening stomach muscles

5. Identifying Emotions
Love – all humans need to give and receive love. This emotion involves strong affection, deep concern and respect

6. EMPATHY The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels
“Walking in another’s shoes’’

7. FEAR
When you experience fear, your SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM reacts by preparing your body for action
- Heart beat faster
- Breathing rate increases
- Increase blood to muscles

8. ANGER
May be displayed as annoyance, or a boiling rage

9. GUILT Emotional response when you think you have done something wrong
Frequently associated with low self esteem