Blog post on Emotions

[mmKay]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/wikipedia-emotions

 

I just wanted to add that ChatGPT is amazing at helping you logically differentiate between different emotions.  Many diferentces are subdle but important for your emotional vocabulary.

Of course, the most accurate understanding comes from direct experience and personal contemplation, but a theoretical background helps a lot

Feel free to share any that are missing on the blog post 

Edited April 9 by mmKay

[Yimpa]

15 minutes ago, mmKay said:

Feel free to share any that are missing on the blog post 

• Surprise
• Confusion
• Excitement
• Nervousness
• Disappointment

@mmKay you changing your profile pic just now made me feel some of these emotions, hehe

Edited April 9 by Yimpa

[MuadDib]

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

21 feelings for which there are no English words:

 

 

Here are some other common ones that weren't on the list; Leo probably didn't include them because they're just too obvious to mention, but it's good to get people with alexithymia to develop a broad vocabulary to aid them with introspection and FEELING:
 

Content

Excited

Optimistic

Cheerful

Satisfied

Disappointed

Hopeless

Hurt

Irritated

Hostile

Annoyed

Resentful

Insecure

Nervous

Uncomfortable

Amazed

Confused

Startled

Shocked

Stunned

Overwhelmed

Loving

Trusting

Caring

Intimate

Thoughtful

Sensitive

Compassionate

Joyful

Fearful

Scared

Worried

Terrified

Furious

Ashamed

Lonely

Grieving

[Leo Gura]

I didn't include ones that don't have clear Wikipedia pages.

[Thought Art]

@Leo Gura What?

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Thought Art said:

@Leo Gura What?

Find the Wikipedia page for confused.

Edited April 10 by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

3 hours ago, mmKay said:

Of course, the most accurate understanding comes from direct experience and personal contemplation, but a theoretical background helps a lot

Indeed. I just bought a footlong sub from Subway via mobile app. When I went to pick it up, I was given A 6 inch instead of a footlong. I observed the embarrassment on the employee, and that greatly reduced the anger in me. I knew that he didn’t intentionally mean to make me the wrong sub. It happens and we are all human. 

[Thought Art]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Fins the Wikipedia page for confused.

Confused? 😇

ohhh

True

Edited April 10 by Thought Art

[Yimpa]

Another neat way to explore emotions is to go to your favorite music streaming service and type an emotion in the search bar. There may be a playlist with amazing songs related to that emotion!

Alternatively, ask AI. For example, “Give me songs with this emotion: scared”

Edited April 10 by Yimpa

[Inception]

From my blog post #3: "Here's a list of eerily peculiar and relatable emotions i didn't even know had a name:

https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2016/02/40-words-for-emotions-youve-felt-but-couldnt-explain/ 

[...]"

One thing I've noticed recently is just how implicit some emotions/thoughts are. Some are very obvious and take the shape of intrapersonal communication, but some are so subtle that they aren't even expressed trough words, i.e. they're more formless. They're like little jolts of implicit understanding. I can then through conscious effort explicate these emotions, but the process is tedious, crude at first and they're never actually fully explicated.

Edited April 10 by Inception

[StarStruck]

Level of consciousness by David Hawkins is a good model to see how these emotions are connected. It is not enough to understand an emotion. You have to link it.
 

Another great book on this topic is called emotional equations or something.  I forgot the name.  

Edited April 10 by StarStruck

[Yimpa]

2 minutes ago, StarStruck said:

Another great book on this topic is called emotional equations or something.  I forgot the name.  

And how does forgetting about the name of that book make you feel?

[StarStruck]

26 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

And how does forgetting about the name of that book make you feel?

Empty

[mmKay]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Aparently  not exactly a traditional emotion but it feels like brain discomfort 

 

I consider hunger an emotion , or very closely related 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(physiology)

Also the " Hangry" emotion ( anger / irratibility caused by hunger )

[Archie]

Hope would be a good one to add: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope

 

[MuadDib]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned one of the core ones. I feel contemptuous of you all right now.

Contempt
 

 

[mmKay]

Have a look at this to experience ASMR. Different people get it from different scenarios. I used to get it as my teacher explained technical drawing to me 1 on 1

I consider this an emotion as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMR

 

Sorrow: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrow_(emotion)

Melancholy

 

 

Edited April 11 by mmKay

[MuadDib]

Sadness
 

 

[mmKay]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humiliation

!!!!!!!!!

this one is so absolutely essential. It's judgement and disaprooval taken to the extreme. It's more intense than embarrasment, shame or anxiety . If you've consistently felt this emotion during a period of your life, expect it to be a serious source of self-worth issues .

 

I have found it's at the core of all the self-esteem Issues I've had. Ofc there is more . Definietly worth read.

@Leo Gura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Emotions

full list of emotions with wikipedia links, if you want to uptade your blog post.

Edited July 5 by mmKay