Emotions

Skill and Abilities

    Emotional intelligence

    Emotional processing

    Emotional regulation

e.g.

• Ability to rapidly evoke desired emotions or moods
• Feeling generally much more ready to face life challenges including social confrontations (emotional aspect)
• Increase in one’s capacity for self-regulation

Role of religions in emotional regulation (Emmons and Palutzian, 2003)

"Positive emotions cultivated by R/S and social bond and sense of meaning may explain their positive health effects" Emmons and Palutzian (2003). There are cognitive differences between short- and long-term vipassana meditators (Easterlin and Cardeña, 1998)

Structure

Envelope

Duration

Intensity

Stability/lability

Types

Positive

Acceptance

Acceptance of death or removal of fear of death

Affection

Amazement , sometimes extreme , feelings of Astonishment  

Amusement   — Fun , Great amusement  

Awe

Baseline affect very contented but not aroused — "not ecstatically joyful, but just a sort of low level of happiness and contentment"

Bliss, sometimes Intense, or Extreme  

Belonging — Sense of belonging or being “home”

Calm

Comfort

Connectedness — e.g. “Amazing sense of Connectedness that feels like it spread beyond oneself”  

Contentment

Detachment

Elation

Empathy

Enjoyment

Euphoria

Evenness

Exhilaration or Ecstasy

Familiarity

Feeling generally more calm

Sense of having a Fresh-space to operate from (emotional aspect)

Gratitude

Happiness

Healing

Higher levels of positive mood

Imperturbability

Sense of Intimacy

Joy  

Less concern for the past or future

Liberation, Opening or Freedom

Love — unconditional feelings of love ; intense feelings of love ; feeling much more loving ; pervasive — e.g. "Every breath was a loving experience - it was like breathing in love"  or "like a world-encompassing experience of love"

Lower trait anxiety

Mild pervasive feelings of happiness/contentment/slight positive emotions

Sense of receiving Nourishment

Openness

Peace

Positive affect NOS  

Pride

Reassurance

Reduced reactivity to daily life — e.g. being much less affected by monthly period

Rejuvenation — Sense of Being reborn

Relaxation

Relief

Satisfaction

Surprise

Tranquility

Warm overall emotional life

Sense of Warmth (emotional)

Wellbeing

Wonder

Negative

Agitation or restlessness  

Alienation, Disconnection, Isolation, or Loneliness

Anger, aggression, or rage

Elevation in negative emotion and deterioration in positive emotion — e.g. in the week following initial mindfulness training among meditation-native adults

Despair

Disbelief

Feeling Disconnected from community (emotional aspect)

Disgust

Doubt

Fear, dread, worry, anxiety, panic, or terror

Fear of meditation

Feelings of impending doom

Grief

Guilt

Irritability

Nervousness

Overwhelm

Paranoia

‘Post-ecstatic blues’

Regret

Sadness, depression, dysphoria, low mood

Self-conscious emotions  

Shock

Significantly increased levels across all negative moods  

Stress  

Suicidality

Tension

Feeling Threatened or Pursued  

Feeling Trapped, or claustrophobia

Unease NOS

Neutral

Absence of emotions

Absence of negative emotions

Emotional flattening

Emotional balance

Feeling normal (neither elated nor anything)

Even emotional life

Sense of "evenness of everything"

Emotional detachment/noninvolvement

General lack of strong emotions

Noninvolvement

Emotional disconnection — e.g. Sense of no relation between emotions and "inner being"

Subdued emotions

Other

Emotion intensification

Mixed emotions

Mood swings, Mood fluctuations, or Emotional lability

Paradoxical emotions  — e.g. a combination of being ‘scared out of one's wits’ with lots of excitement