How to express your emotions through art

                   How to express your emotions through art

Teacher has told her students to write their name on the back of a sticky note and put it on the table every Monday. She then talks privately throughout the week with each child around where they put the sticky note and whether they need to talk.
A weekly check on her students.

Extroverts tend to be better at talking about their feelings, but practice and attention can help those without a natural gift for it.

Emotional intelligence is a skill, and some people are better at recognizing and communicating emotions than others.

Among the Big Five personality traits—openness, extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism—several studies have found that people high in extroversion tend to have higher emotional expressiveness, while people high in neuroticism tend to be less expressive.

Monthly ,,feelings,, calendar.

You could write them down and draw a list,print on paper or just list them in your head.Everyday check them with a marker.

If you are having trouble figuring out your feelings check out the Feelings pic again daily or weekly to see how is your life going and how you can make it better in particular "not so good"bad days.

So the moral of this story is not just to do that physiological check. Step two is to ask yourself, “Where is it coming from?” and “Is that anxiety related to the communication I’m about to make? A decision I’m about to make? Or an email I’m about to send? Where is that irritation coming from? Where is the anger coming from? Is it a leftover mood because traffic was terrible today? Or damn it, I'm getting a cold again and I can't afford it?”

If you know that, Then you are able to better manage your emotions and express feelings in a way that will send a good accurate message and your decisions are cleaner, clearer, and just a hell of a lot better.

You have to practice at it. Start with someone you know, a trusted colleague, friend or something like that. Start at a low level of intensity. Not when you’re truly enraged, but when you’re mildly irritated. I would first practice that.

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You can also try that and actually take a video selfie of you expressing those kinds of things, because you may feel you’re getting the message across but you're listening to your own voice inside your own head, which isn't really great.

I think when people hear themselves and see themselves, they’re sometimes appalled by their facial expressions, their gesticulation and those kinds of things. And then practice those things, using emotion words.