Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Emotions and Feelings


How well can you identify your emotions, your feelings? Go through this list and underline what best describes how you feel now. If you like, you can then highlight the qualities to which you aspire. If you do not know the definition of a word, look it up so you will gain new awareness of the possibilities open to you.

How/what do you feel?

absorbed
abusive
accepting
accommodating
accomplished
adaptable
adversarial
aggressive
agreeable
alert
altruistic
analytical
angry
annoyed
antagonistic
anxious
approved of
arrogant
ashamed
authentic


balanced
beautiful
belligerent
bereft
bitter
bored
brave
broken down
bullied


calm
chaotic
cheerful
cold
commanding
compassionate
competitive
complaining
conceited
condemned
confident
conflicted
confused
conservative
content
controlled
controlling
cooperative
courageous
cowardly
creative
critical
cruel
curious

defeated
deluded
demanding
dependent
depressed
desperate
destitute
destructive
detached
dignified
disconnected
discouraged
disgusted
dominated
dominating

eccentric
ecstatic
egocentric
egotistical
empathic
empowered
envious
erratic
excited
expressive
extroverted

fair
faithful
fearful
frightened
frustrated

glad
good
grateful
greedy
grieving
guilty

happy
harmonizing
hatred
helpful
helpless
hesitant
hopeless

idealistic
ignorant
impatient
important
impoverished
impulsive
indifferent
individualistic
inert
insecure
insensitive
inspired
in service
interested
intolerant
introspective
invulnerable
irresponsible
irritated
isolated

jealous
joyful
judged
judgmental

lazy
likable
lively
lonely
lost
loved
loving

mad
manipulated
manipulative
mediating
miserable
mistrusting
moody
moral

negative
noble

obsessed
open

panicked
paranoid
passionate
passive
peaceful
perfectionist
pitiful
pleased
poor
possessive
powerful
practical
preoccupied
procrastinating
proud
punished
punishing
purposeful

rage
reactionary
reclusive
rejected
rejoicing
repressed
resentful
resigned
resistant
responsible
ridiculous
righteous
ruthless

sad
sadistic
secretive
selfish
self-accepting
self-condemning
self-defeating
self-destructive
self-hatred
self-obsessed
self-pity
self-sabotaging
sensitive
serene
shamed
shut-down
shy
sorry
stable
stimulated
stricken
strung-out
stubborn
superior

tantrums
timid
tolerant

unconcerned
understanding
unforgiving
unhappy
unresponsive
untrusting

vain
vengeance
vicious
victimized
violent
visionary

well-meaning
wise
withdrawn
worthy

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