Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Psychology of Emotion classMy 2-hour class today was interesting, I learned some new things.
1. Emotion and cognition are inseperable, they're mutually related.
2. Just because someone is not very expressive doesn't mean that that person doesn't have emotions. Some people are more emotional than others, but we all have emotions (except of course, psychopaths)
3. Act-of-noticing--> learn to begin noticing our emotions in every day lives. Most of our everyday actions are habitual, so slow down and tune in to your emotions.
4. There are content and form to emotions (e.g.,what you say and how you say it)
5. Goal of therapy process: to recover the context of the emotional episode and the situation it manifested itself in, to better understand and approach your emotions.
*** The more honest we are about our emotions, the less our emotions control us. Befriend your emotions, and embrace them.
So you've just been dumped... so what... there are other things worse... don't focus on your own little world, try to see other "worlds"... we focus too much on guy-girl issues... face the issues, deal with your emotions, and move on.
Don't bury your emotions, don't turn your back on them and shut them up, because they will come out sooner or later and you will have to deal with them anyway. So deal with them as soon as possible.
6. We see ourselves as living in a world of objects and we are one of them. We experience ourselves as being physically separate from the rest of the world. We think that we are trapped in our body... WRONG! The notion that our body is a boundary is FAKE, it's an ILLUSION. "Where is your mind?" nobody can answer this...
We have worlds within us, we have worlds outside of us.
Don't focus on yourself as an object (object error)...instead, focus on yourself as a process! We are not locked in. When we are honest about our emotions, we welcome our emotions and we're not burdened by them.
Looking at ourselves as a process means that we're open to change and we're not fixed... we change thru time and we evolve.
So I think today's lecture was more like a therapy session... Prof Cupchik is funny and a killer! But he did make an excellent point: When we see ourselves as a process, we're not worried about getting high grades... you're here to learn. If we get out of the class feeling more intuned with ourselves and our emotions, then it's all that matters... it's the learning experience.
So deal with your emotions, don't delay... don't bury them... face them, befriend them. Because if your don't, one day when you're 60 years old, you might still have that undealt issues of when you were 20 (the 20-yr-old you is trapped in a 60-yr-old body)... don't let that happen to u ^.^
So yeah, I'm so looking forward to a semester of therapy session and fun! bring them on!
si Monyet @ 1/05/2005 03:48:00 PM
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