Describe your Emotion
This is the fourth exercise of the Basic Mindfulness Skills, that will help you recognise and focus on your thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.
This exercise will ask you to choose an emotion and then describe that emotion by drawing it and exploring it.
Ideally, you should choose an emotion that you’re feeling right now, unless that emotion is overwhelming you and self distructive. If it is, you should wait until you feel more in control of your emotions before this exercise.
On the other hand, if you cant choose the emotion and struggle to identify the emotion, choose an emotion your were feeling recently. something you can remember. But, whichever you choose, try to be specific about what the emotion is.
For example, if you got into a fight with your spouse or partner recently because he or she did something to you, that’s the situation, not the emotion.
List of commonly felt emotions
- annoyed
- frustrated
- bitter
- nervous
- anxious
- scared
- pleasure
- excited
- delighted
- astonished
- joy
- depressed
- bored
- tired
- unhappy
- hopeless
When you’ve identified the emotion you want to explore, write it down at the top of the describe your emotion form or use a blank piece of paper.
Then using your imagination, draw a picture of what your emotion might look like. This might sound hard to do, but just do the best you can.
For example, happiness may be a sunshine or ice cream or an animal, sadness may be the ocean, or a dark cloud.
You can use this form below to help prompt you.
