When the Bee Gee’s opined, “It’s just emotion that’s taking me over,” they weren’t exaggerating—emotions affect us in powerful ways, impacting our behavior and our relationships. So, it’s important we ...

A common comparison is to associate each primary emotion to a primary pigment colour (red, yellow, and blue); secondary emotions are thus a mix between two primary emotions, i.e. green results from ...

At some point in our childhood, we learn that living in a society means controlling certain emotions. We suppress, in particular, emotions we consider to be “negative”—fear, anger, jealousy, ...

Mental-health issues involve a lack of capacity for emotional regulation. Too much unmanaged emotion overpowers our brain's ...

What exactly is a wheel of emotions, you ask? There are several different versions of the wheel of emotions. The most notable include the Plutchik wheel, the Junto wheel, the Geneva wheel and the ...

The key to self-love is emotional intelligence, but how do you get in touch with your emotions without sacrificing your mental health? In Western culture, we unfortunately often have little-to-no ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman philosopher Seneca taught: 'The greatest remedy for anger is delay.' This philosophy still rings true today, and today’s political and social arenas would surely benefit ...

In the past year, we’ve learned to what extent the mental health of an employee can affect their productivity. If one of the first signals of a bad workplace environment is employee burnout, then one ...

"Physical actions and body states, like plants, exist in nature. But the status of these physical changes as instances of anger, sadness, or fear (or even as instances of some other psychological ...