Workout 1 – Observing Emotion Summary

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3 Action Points

• Observe and name the emotions you experience, both positive (insofar as they feel good) and negative (insofar they don’t feel good) (rather than, say, an evaluation based on benefit or harm).

• Identify and describe the emotion or desire that is behind the emotion (what the desire is for).

• Evaluate to what degree you are able to satisfy the desire behind the emotion.

Observing Emotion Workout Summary

Workout 1 is all about observation—about being aware of our feelings or emotions.

We begin by looking at the emotions experienced by various characters in Homer’s Iliad. The anger of Achilles, Agamemnon, and Apollo. Hephaestus’ fear. Hector’s longing. We then shift to observe the emotion of someone we know and then an emotion we experience.

Next, we identify and describe the desires lurking behind the emotions we experience and evaluate to what degree we are usually able to satisfy them.

Finally, we keep an Emotions-Feelings Log for a week. We do so in order to get used to observing the feelings and emotions we regularly experience and what emotions or desires are behind them.

To see Workout 1 – Observing Emotion in whole, click on the PDF “Workout 1 – Observing Emotion.”

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