Hi and welcome back to how to use show up practicing emotional intelligence. Today's lessons topic is how many emotions are there and we're talking about the mood meter. How many emotions are there? Most research concludes that there are about seven basic emotions. And these emotions have certain facial expressions associated with them, like anger or sadness, disgust, fear, contempt, happiness. Surprise.

Research confirms that our feelings have a huge influence on our decisions. And yet often in the moment we aren't really aware of how we are feeling and how those feelings are influencing our behavior. The mood meter was designed by Yale University to help us learn to recognize emotions in ourselves and others through practice, learn to manage those emotions intentionally and success. Basically we decide how we want to show up take a look at this diagram the mood meter provides us with language to describe our emotions. It is a four quadrant diagram and has four colors each representing a specific set of feelings according to pleasantness and our energy level. So, if you take a look at the red section, those feelings are high energy and low pleasantness.

So in this category we find anger scared, anxious Next, take a look at the blue section, low energy and low pleasantness So here we see sadness disappointed lonely, the green section, low energy, high pleasantness so in this case, the person is calm, tranquil, relaxed, and finally the yellow section, high energy, high pleasantness happy, excited, curious, these are the emotions that we find in the yellow segment. So if you can find words to describe how you feel at the time, And even better, what is causing it, you will automatically become more aware you then have options you can decide that you do not want to feel the way you do, you can decide that your feelings are about things in your past rather than the situation at hand. And finally, you can begin to think about well, how is this impacting others? How is my behavior going to impact the rest of the team or the family these are all awareness type activities that we can intentionally decide how we want to respond or behave based on an emotion that we are feeling for the class project used to mood meter over the next few days.

Make a note of how you feel, make a note of specific emotions that you are experiencing, and try to use the mood meter to categorize those emotions and journal about what you find then make a practice of applying this awareness to your daily experiences and I'll see you in the next one.