Activity To Work On Emotions
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The Magic Wand
Objective: For children to express and understand different emotions.
through the recreation of a specific emotion.
Activity:
The concept of emotions is explained, so that children can understand their
meaning. After that, a video is shown (at the choice of the adult), to
then share with the children their opinions about the video. Subsequently, it
perform the magic wand activity.
Development:
The person in charge of carrying out the activity will place different items in a box or bag.
characters that express different emotions. The adult will have a magic wand in
his hands.
Each child individually or in groups (depending on the number of children that
(be in the living room) will take out one of the sheets and the adult will touch the child with the wand,
or the children and they will have to transform their face showing the expression of the
emotion that has appeared in the sheet.
Say hello to your emotions!
Emotions are part of our daily lives, of our routines and without
embargo, for most of us they go unnoticed... Even, still
reaching the extreme, we hardly stop to try to find out what is happening to us
they say.
Emotions are like alarm signals of ourtrobodythat when
They appear to be indicating something.
Emotions predispose us to action in different ways; each one of
they point us to a direction that, in the past, allowed for proper resolution
the countless challenges that human existence has faced.
Daniel Goleman
Joy
Joy is the positive emotion that arises when we achieve a goal or
objective, we live an experience that we consider pleasant or we achieve
reduce our discomfort. Thejoyit is one of the emotions considered as
positive.
Under its influence, we are able to bring to our memory
joyful memories. It works like an engine that stirs our life and
it makes us choose those moments when we had this emotion
positive.
Induce hormonal changes by reducing stress, improving the response
immune and cardiovascular responses.
Facilitates social interaction by making us more
communicative, more likely to help others and achieving
soften the effects of negative emotions.
Joy is contagious. When we feel happy, we tend to share it.
with others and with the world and trying to make our surroundings also the
enjoy.
Without sadness, we would not be able to feel joy.
Sadness
Sadness is a negative emotion characterized by a mood state.
The decay that causes our mental activity and our actions to diminish.
Being sad is very subjective and personal. It appears in situations where
we lose something or someone or in which our self is damaged. It can fluctuate
from a slight melancholy to an intense sorrow, but we cannot confuse it
withdepression.
It influences our thought processes by making us
we have a lesser capacity for creativity. We focus on
the available data, trying to reflect on the negative aspects that have
happened and we didn't explore other options to resolve a conflict or to get out of
a negative situation.
Feeling sadness makes us not have a good disposition for it.
social contact and that we isolate ourselves or that, on the contrary, it stimulates us to
seek help.
When we feel continuously sad, we can experience
learned helplessness that makes us think that we do what
let's not change anything for what we chose not to
try it.
Sadness also has its positive side: it makes you reflect on what
do you really care
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Anger is a negative emotion that arises when we are subjected to
situations that we consider frustrating or harmful to our integrity and that of
the people we value. Anger indicates a threat we face.
that we defend ourselves.
It drives us to action while it blinds us rationally.
that we interrupt our complex thinking and express
negative feelings towards the focus of our frustration whether it be a person or
a situation.
If we estimate that it is possible to act on those factors that block
our goals will appear wrath. On the contrary, if we consider that not
We can do nothing; the emotion we will feel will be sadness.
It also appears in the transgression of norms and rights in our
community: injustice.
There are many ways to channel it and it can appear when we do not receive.
no reward for our work or actions. E.g.: if our boss does not
they pay us or they do not recognize the efforts we make for others.
Do not give yourselves too much to anger; prolonged anger breeds hatred.
Fear
Fear is the emotion that is produced by an imminent danger that
we consider that it can harm us or harm people in our environment.
This emotion is complex and at the same time fundamental to our
survival. Since prehistoric times, fear has served the being
human to flee or confront something that poses a real danger to
our safety and make decisions about what situations we should avoid.
The bad thing about fear is when what we fear is not a real danger,
but it is feared based on the interpretation we make about the
events. We envision a future imagined in which the
The consequences of feeling it will be horrible for us. This is what is
know howanxiety.
Both the experiences we live and the fears that society and the
Education instills in us, it has an impact on our perception of the world.
It is not necessary to know the danger to be afraid; in fact, dangers
The unknown are those that inspire the most fear.
Disgust
Disgust is the emotional response we give to something that we
it provokes disgust because we have an unpleasant impression about something.
The reactions of disgust in our bodies are the ones that give us away the most.
they are very intense, we can hardly hide them.
The survival function it has is to protect us in the face of a
possible intoxication or poisoning, but that we feel disgust towards
non-toxic foods have more to do with associating certain flavors
to unpleasant experiences or thoughts.
Not only do we feel disgust for food or for the smells of different substances,
but the moral ideas that are unpleasant for us and the
people who represent them also produce this emotion in us.
Everyone has a scale of the despicable, which ranges from what we
it disgusts a little even what seems clearly repugnant to us, even
hardly bearable.
Roger-Pol Droit