The objective of this section is to be more competent when it comes to generate positive emotions voluntarily and consciously and to adopt appropriate behaviors that allow us to face life’s challenges in a better way.
How to do it? We propose several exercises:
Assign one or several positive and healthy emotions to green colour and other maladaptive and unhealthy to red colour. Leave the orange for those emotions that you are still processing or that you are not sure how to value.
Think about yesterday and fill in this table:
Time slot | Emotions – Color |
8 -9.- Wake up and breakfast | |
9 – 14.- Work | |
14 – 15.- Lunch with… | |
15 – 18.- Work | |
18 – 19.- Housework | |
19 – 21.- Going for a run with… | |
21 – 23.- Dinner and sofa |
Here are a series of suggestions, all essential. Review them carefully. Rate your current personal situation and decide where to start.
Choose one every week, specify the action you are going to start and get going. When you consider that you can expand your goals, choose another one and so on and so forth.
Make an action proposal for each one:
Every day upon waking, think that you have a credit of 24 “coupons” of one hour. You can choose green, orange and red “vouchers” (as in the “Traffic light” exercise).
You decide what “vouchers” you choose and what you are going to invest them in. Try to make a specific planning of the cost of every “voucher”.
Every day, at the end of the day, write down five small or big good things that made you feel good:
1.-___________
2.-___________
3.-___________
4.-___________
5.- ___________
“The first step in this emotional work is to become aware of what you are feeling. A later step will involve assessing whether what you are feeling is a healthy central emotion or not, and then deciding whether to let yourself be guided by it. ”
Get to know yourself better to build new ways of perceiving, feeling and acting.
Being able to generate positive emotions to better face life’s challenges.