Arousal-valence

[cosmolinguist]

I had this tab open before, but I've only gotten around to reading it properly now that it seems to echo that emotional literacy thing.

It's the arousal-valence model.

By identifying your current level of arousal and valence, you can start to build awareness of your bodily sensations and the connection between those sensations and your emotions.

It looks like a good next step for me in "what to do next," like it's all well and good understanding that I'm bad at identifying and acknowledging my emotions, but now what can I do to make this less of a problem for me.

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

Oooh really useful

[otter]

Hmm. food for thought

[sennashi_dorei]

I am quite sure that my emotional intelligence is low compared to the average human. That is what causes me to freak out and get angry, and it is a consequence of heart defect: regardless of how mentally retarded the doctors want to call me: there are way too many people willing to come to terms with the actual functions of the physical heart.