Take Care of Yourself

Identify Emotions

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Check-in Question

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Would you rather…

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• Live where it is cold (30 degrees or below) all year round?

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• Live where it is hot all the time (80 degrees or higher) all year round?

Emotional awareness helps us identify what we want or don’t want.

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Watch this clip to identify the different feelings

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Did you know...

There are 6 basic emotions all humans experience?

Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Surprise

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Insight

Refers to the ability to know your emotions and how they affect your thoughts and actions.

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Gaining insight is important for one to build self-confidence, self-awareness, and empathy.

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Insight helps one recognize personal strengths, areas of growth, self-identities, and how they complement each other in a larger society. Insight also helps students value how others may think and feel differently from themselves.

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I Can Statement

“I am aware of how emotions are felt and expressed by myself and others.”

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Vocabulary

Emotions

A conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.

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Feelings

Feelings arise as a reaction to our emotional response. They are the interpretation of the events and sensations being experienced from the emotion.

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Why do you think it is important to know how you are feeling?

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Some reasons it is important to know and identify emotions...

• Understand self
• Being able to regulate self
• Knowing when to take a break or ask for help
• Being able to help others

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How to identify emotions?

• Take your emotional temperature → (What feelings am I aware of having? What one stands out the most? When did I start feeling this?)

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• Identify any stressors → (What might be triggering this feeling? What is happening/not happening in my day to day life? How is my personal life? How is school? How are my relationships with those around me?

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• Physical signs → body posture, facial expressions, hands (clenched, open, sweaty), stomach (nervous feelings, butterflies), voice (tone, volume, calm, shaky), breathing (slow and steady, increased, fast)

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• Ask yourself “How am I feeling?” but don’t just stick to “okay” or “fine” move past that to identify a true feeling.

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• Being aware of the different emotions we experience allows us to better identify them

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Let’s Practice Using P.A.S.T.A...

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On scrap paper or a sticky note use the acronym, P.A.S.T.A. to identify what you are feeling right now. Try to identify the emotion that goes with that feeling.

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You will be given the opportunity to share in a few minutes, but only if you would like!

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Check-Out

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How are you feeling moving into your day today?