Study of Emotions
What emotions do you see in this video?
Thanks, Keith, for sharing this!
Feeling Your Emotions
Copyright by mdanys
Every now and then it just feels good to sit down and have a real hard cry, doesn’t it? Or maybe, if you are a guy reading this, perhaps for you it feels really good to just blow off some steam and release it by hitting a punching bag or screaming really loud?
Can you relate?
When you have a really bad day at work, do you keep it to yourself or do you share it with people? It’s certainly not politically correct to go around the office complaining about your boss (nor would I recommend it), but do you vent your feelings to a confidant? And when you do vent, do you feel it is a productive process, or do your complaints just yield the usually consolation of “Things will get better tomorrow. Smile, you’ll be okay.”? When you get the latter, it is often very frustrating, isn’t it?
Over the years, I have noticed a trend where we as a society are shunning emotional responses more and more. We seem to want to make everything better and send only the best wishes for a perfect world, when we live in anything but a perfect world. Nothing makes me more insane than saying everything will be fine when it clearly is not.
Don’t confuse my message, I don’t support having an emotional tantrum. I am talking about having a natural release of emotions at an appropriate time.
Our emotions have many purposes and one of the most important is to motivate us to effect change! But change will only come if we allow ourselves to feel the emotion before us and express it (when appropriate, of course).
When friends come to us in confidence, its important to promote that its okay to feel what you are feeling, to let it out and express it. Expressing an emotion will allow us to own it, work through it and consider how we can change things. Shunning our emotions will only cause us to feel more misunderstood and frustrated.
So the next time you have a friend who is angry, think twice about offering optimism and positivity in the general sense it is usually offered, which typically doesn’t promote change. Instead ask the person, what made you feel this way? Is there anything you could have done differently? Is there anything you can do differently in the future? How can you use this experience to promote or effect change?
I think we’d do much better as a society looking at the source of our emotions and addressing how we feel rather than offering generic optimistic advice. And while optimistic advise has a time and a purpose, I think we are far over using it. I almost feel like we can’t handle people expressing emotions in a true and sincere and non-threatening way anymore. We just want them to go away and be happy.
Do you agree?
Chicken Nugget Deception?
Copyright by KBOX
Do you like chicken nuggets? The kind you get at fast food restaurants? Well, you might be surprised to read what scientists found they were made of when they studied nuggets from two national fast food chains.
If you were hoping for lean chicken meat or well meat, such as a thigh or leg or breast, you might be disappointed by reading this. And if you love chicken nuggets, I don’t want to ruin it for you — so think twice about read this.
What scientists found was that chicken nuggets contain actually very little meat.
As NBC reports, “The first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves. Close inspection revealed cells that line the skin and internal organs of the bird, the authors wrote in the American Journal of Medicine. The second nugget was only 40 percent muscle, and the remainder was fat, cartilage and pieces of bone.”
So, yes, you are getting chicken parts, but not exactly the meat.
Do you consider this to be deceptive?
Can you identify emotions in eyes?
Photo and copyright by CubaGallery
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Mass Shootings Preventable?
CBS 60 Minutes this past Sunday aired an interesting story on mass shootings. I think regardless of which side of the political line you stand, we are all likely to agree that mental illness is something we need to address and deal with.
When you hear that more than half of the mass shootings happened by people who were mental ill, it is staggering.
