Emotions are the powerful brain states that focus our senses, attention, and other mental faculties on immediate or critical experiences, behaviors, and functions. They are indispensable for facilitating our most important primitive survival, defensive, social, and procreation behaviors. They were designed by nature to power our most important life behaviors. Without them, we could not survive physically or procreate. However, if they are not properly understood and controlled, they can really wreak havoc with our intellectual functions, our social relationships, and our long-term survival and well-being. Our emotions work to drive important primitive reactive behaviors, mostly in the present, while our intellect provides monitoring, management, and integration functions, and works to achieve more complex, long-term, or strategic plans and goals.
How do your emotions affect you spiritually, that is, your general state of mind and your overall enjoyment of life?
What kind of emotional profile did you inherit from through your genes?
What kind of emotional patterns or habits have you developed through your life experiences?
What are your most common feelings?
What triggers your most common feelings?
What are your most intense feelings?
What triggers your most intense feelings?
How easy or difficult is it for you to control, manage, or regulate your most common and most intense emotions?
How do your emotions affect the performance of your important life tasks and functions?
How do your emotions affect your important social relationships?
How do your emotions affect your ability to think objectively and plan strategically?
