Non-Violent Communication - The NVC List of Feelings

The point here is to get better at identifying your emotions. This is where mindfulness comes in, because you want to be able to maintain a non-judgmental approach. Your emotions are not good, bad, right, or wrong. They just are. The challenge of managing our emotions becomes a problem when we judge ourselves and say that we shouldn't feel that way,. It's also important to distinguish between emotions and behaviors. Feeling angry, which is an emotion, is different than yelling when we are angry,which is a behavior.