If you thought this was interesting, I have a written a similar post called Thinking About The Past. Let me know what you think in the comments. I've written before on what you can do when you're in a bad mood. When you do, you can sometimes see that the anger and frustration you are feeling isn’t caused by the people around you but by a mood you have been feeling before you walked in the door and that they shouldn't be blamed. Understanding what are moods and emotions – and their differences – takes time and practice. When we are in a bad mood, it is much easier to misinterpret things in the light of this bad mood. In this way, our emotions are susceptible to the mood we are in, and this also make us more likely to interpret our environment in particular ways and distort our thinking. If this happens, the emotion may have the same flavour as the mood. So it's not really a question of moods versus emotions instead it's more moods and emotions. However, it is much more likely that your mood will influence the emotion you feel. Similarly, when a good mood, it is still possible to feel sad or angry feelings. For instance, whilst in a bad mood is quite possible to have brief feelings of happiness and joy. We can experience moods and emotions at the same time, but emotions seem to ‘sit on top’ of moods. These Affects can be the thing we notice about emotions, and the thing that we can find most distressing about them. These are the butterflies in the stomach that we experience with anxiety, the muscular tension that anger can bring, or the ache in the heart we have with grief. Affect is the physical sensations you have when you have emotions. The third part of the equation here is Affect. Small things we experience can change our emotions quickly, and we can experience more than one emotion at once, and these can reflect different parts of us. They're also much more likely to be caused by immediate circumstances something that someone just said, something that you witnessed or some memories that you had.Įmotions are likely to be sharper than moods, and also more varied while we can have a great range of exquisitely different emotions, we tend to have moods which are more generalised - a good mood, a bad mood. We can think of these emotions as being positive or negative (although the idea of negative emotions is a myth). In contrast, emotions are things that tend to come and go quite quickly. They often seem like they are brought on by circumstances pressure at work, pressure at home, money trouble. When we have these moody periods, they often feel like stages that we are going through and they are hard to shift. They can last for an extended period of time, say at least one or two days. Paul Ekman in his accessible book ‘Emotions Revealed’, says that moods are generally emotional feelings. In general, the differences are fairly straightforward. Image credit: © Kasia Bialasiewicz - What are moods? Moods stay for a while
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