The Emotion Wheel: How do you use the Emotion Wheel to Understand your Feelings?

Whenever people go through something new or challenging, they can experience complex and overwhelming feelings. Sometimes it can be hard to comprehend what’s going on inside you and how you’re feeling and even harder to determine the right reaction one must have.

The emotion wheel is the answer if you’re looking for a way to improve your emotional literacy and learn how to handle difficult emotions.

What is the Emotion Wheel?

It is a psychological tool that helps people understand and articulate their complex emotions. Eight primary emotions are identified in the wheel. These primary emotions can be described on different, more nuanced levels.

A primary emotion is a natural emotion that a human is born with and has been wired into their brains. Low-intensity emotions like boredom, acceptance, distraction, etc can be found on the outer edges of the emotion wheel. 

On the emotion wheel, the color deepens as you move toward the center. As you move toward the center, milder emotions become your basic emotions.

Based on Robinson’s emotional experience research, here are the foundational, primary emotions and their reactions:

Much like the color wheel, a variety of emotions can be articulated by mixing emotions together. When emotions are complex, they can take on different forms as they are expressed in various intensities. Similarly, fear and surprise can be mixed together to bring alarm or trust and submission. 

Components of Emotion?

• Emotion component
• Appraisal component
• Motor component
• Action tendency component
• Physiological component

Benefits of the Emotion Wheel

• Overthinking and downward spirals can be avoided by knowing oneself.
• Conflict management improves as one becomes emotionally mature.
• Fostering empathy enables one to connect more deeply with themselves and others.
• Embracing the fact that all emotions provide important context.

Use The Emotion Wheel To Understand Your Feelings

Using the emotion wheel can serve one well as one strives to become more open, honest, curious, and mindful about themselves. The more one develops emotional self-awareness, the more clear-headed and confident one feels. 

By learning and understanding one’s emotions, one can gain insight into any triggers that may occur in their life, improving and maintaining the relationships in their life in a positive and uplifting way. Everyone can learn to tune into their emotions with some practice

When we don’t face down our feelings or acknowledge them, the intensity of our emotions can increase. When we don’t name our emotions, we run the risk of intensifying them. By identifying one’s feelings and feeling their emotions, the emotion wheel helps one become comfortable with themselves.

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