You have a definition for emotions and one for feelings and you have an understanding of why people are afraid of feelings, and what makes feelings healthy. Or now let's take a look at a model that helps you understand regulating your feelings. What's a continuum. a continuum is a range of things that are slightly different from each other like 1234, and five. And so while each point is slightly different, the ends are extremely different, like the hours of the day, or zero to 100 years. 01234 are fairly close, but zero and 100 are really far apart.

It used to be that we thought there were eight basic emotions and then six and now since 2014, research at Glasgow University, we've really narrowed it down to four basic emotions and if we can do with four, we can probably deal with more. The four feelings that we're going to deal with our happy, sad, afraid and angry. Now if you can do with those also deal with surprised and disgusted because surprised is a part of afraid and disgust as a part of angry. four basic emotions. How many names for each Do you know? How do you respond to the feelings they bring up?

How do you turn them up and down? In the next chapter we'll look at these four and help you learn how to identify more names will help you decide where they belong on a continuum, and learn how others say they generally experienced them. Now go to the worksheet that's next in this chapter and see how many continuum you can find.