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1 Lesson 3 Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways
Managing your emotions allows you to express them in healthful ways.

2 Understanding Your Emotions
Recognizing and acknowledging your emotions is a sign of How you respond to your emotions can affect your

3 Understanding Your Emotions
Learning to recognize your emotions and to understand their effects on you will help you learn to manage them in healthful ways. Emotions

4 Understanding Your Emotions
Changes during puberty are caused by hormones. Hormones

5 Understanding Your Emotions
Hormones can make you feel as if your

6 Understanding Your Emotions
Happiness Common Emotions

7 Understanding Your Emotions
Hostility is a form of anger that can hurt others, as well as the hostile person. Hostility

8 Managing Your Emotions
Knowing how to recognize your emotions can help you manage them in healthful ways. Learning to express emotions in a healthful way

9 Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
Emotions are neither good nor bad. The way you express your emotions, however, can produce good or bad consequences. Feeling bad, or emotional, when things happen in your life is normal. These feelings can be managed.

10 Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
One example of expressing empathy is supporting a friend who is going through a difficult time. Empathy

11 Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
To help you recognize your emotions and express them in positive ways, ask yourself these questions: Why Will What Who

12 Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
Healthful expression

13 Responding to Difficult Emotions
Reducing the Intensity of Emotions Take several deep breaths.

14 Responding to Difficult Emotions
Sometimes you may use defense mechanisms unconsciously as a way to protect yourself from intense emotional pain. Defense mechanisms

15 Responding to Difficult Emotions
Common Defense Mechanisms Involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind. Returning to behaviors characteristic of a younger age, rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner. Unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others. Attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group. Consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind. Making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it. Making up for weaknesses and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts.

16 Handling Fear You can overcome some fears by If you’re unable to control your fears,

17 Guilt is a very destructive emotion
Dealing with Guilt Guilt is a very destructive emotion If you feel guilty about something: Look at the circumstances Admitting a mistake Sometimes you will feel guilt about situations

18 Managing Anger Anger is one of the most difficult As with guilt,
When you first feel anger building up inside you, If this doesn’t work,

19 Managing Anger Strategies for Managing Anger Do something to relax.
Use the energy generated by your anger to do something positive. Take a walk, play the piano or guitar, or write your feelings down in a private journal.

20 Managing Anger Physical activity is

21 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are emotions? How can emotions affect your behavior?

22 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are five common defense mechanisms?

23 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List three strategies for handling anger in a healthful way.


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