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    This document discusses emotions and enhancing positive emotions. It defines emotions as mental states associated with thoughts, feelings, behaviors and pleasure or displeasure. Emotions can be positive like joy, love and gratitude or negative like anger and fear. The document outlines that positive emotions broaden thinking and build long-term resources and well-being. While negative emotions have survival value in dangerous situations, cultivating positive communication through caring words and active listening can help generate more positive emotions in oneself and others. The conclusion states that learning to face challenges with a positive mindset can help enhance positive emotions like hope and optimism to improve emotional well-being.

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    This document discusses emotions and enhancing positive emotions. It defines emotions as mental states associated with thoughts, feelings, behaviors and pleasure or displeasure. Emotions can be positive like joy, love and gratitude or negative like anger and fear. The document outlines that positive emotions broaden thinking and build long-term resources and well-being. While negative emotions have survival value in dangerous situations, cultivating positive communication through caring words and active listening can help generate more positive emotions in oneself and others. The conclusion states that learning to face challenges with a positive mindset can help enhance positive emotions like hope and optimism to improve emotional well-being.

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    This document discusses emotions and enhancing positive emotions. It defines emotions as mental states associated with thoughts, feelings, behaviors and pleasure or displeasure. Emotions can be positive like joy, love and gratitude or negative like anger and fear. The document outlines that positive emotions broaden thinking and build long-term resources and well-being. While negative emotions have survival value in dangerous situations, cultivating positive communication through caring words and active listening can help generate more positive emotions in oneself and others. The conclusion states that learning to face challenges with a positive mindset can help enhance positive emotions like hope and optimism to improve emotional well-being.

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    This document discusses emotions and enhancing positive emotions. It defines emotions as mental states associated with thoughts, feelings, behaviors and pleasure or displeasure. Emotions can be positive like joy, love and gratitude or negative like anger and fear. The document outlines that positive emotions broaden thinking and build long-term resources and well-being. While negative emotions have survival value in dangerous situations, cultivating positive communication through caring words and active listening can help generate more positive emotions in oneself and others. The conclusion states that learning to face challenges with a positive mindset can help enhance positive emotions like hope and optimism to improve emotional well-being.

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    ENHANCING EMOTIONS

    EMOTIONS: AN INTRODUCTION-
    We all have emotions or the presence of emotional
    intelligence within us. Emotions are mental states brought on
    by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with
    thoughts, feelings, behavioural responses, and a degree of
    pleasure or displeasure.
    In other words, emotions are conscious mental reactions
    (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong
    feelings usually directed toward a specific object and typically
    accompanied by physiological and behavioural changes in the
    body.
    Emotion can be of different types. It is not necessary that a
    person will feel a specific emotion all the time. Emotion is
    dynamic; hence, feeling happy at one instance and feeling sad
    at the other is normal.
    Based on this note, emotions are of two types; positive
    emotions and negative emotions.
    A GLIMPSE ON POSITIVE EMOTIONS-
    Positive emotions doesn’t just mean feeling happy all the time. A range of
    other emotions can also increase focus and success and, over time, improve
    student wellbeing. The broaden-and build theory of positive emotions suggests
    that all positive emotions lead to broadened repertoires of thoughts a id
    actions and that broadening helps build resources that contribute to future
    success.
    Positive emotions include:
    • Joy
    • Amusement
    • Hope
    • Pride
    • Love
    • Compassion
    • Interest
    • Gratitude
    • Satisfaction
    • Serenity
    • Awe

    Positive emotions- signal flourishing. In fact, positive emotions also


    produce flourishing. Moreover, they do so not simply within the
    present, pleasant moment but over the long term as well. The take-
    home message is that positive emotions are worth cultivating, not
    just as end states in themselves but also as a means to achieving
    psychological growth and improved wellbeing over time. When we
    experience positive emotions, it signals that we engage in actions or
    activities that align with our values. They also suggest that the
    experience is meeting our needs.
    Negative emotions- also have an intuitively adaptive value. In
    an instant, they narrow other thought action repertoire to
    those of fight or flight that promote our survival in life
    threatening situations.

    Even amidst overwhelming negativity in almost all


    dimensions of human life in the present era, a ray of hope is
    that relentless attempt to be a good communicator
    generating positive emotions in self and others can yield the
    desired result. It can go a long way out by cultivating the
    habit of being a good communicator. This is a matter of
    attitude and not money – caring words, listening with all
    attention, using a calm tone of voice, looking in the eyes, a
    smile and a genuine concern for wellbeing of the
    communicatee are all what are needed.
    CONCLUSION-

    In today’s date, many people throughout the world face


    hardships and problems due to many negative emotions in
    our challenging environment. Every emotion has some
    purpose. We should learn to face every challenge in our life
    and we can definitely move towards enhancing positive
    emotions.

    Engaging ourselves in various ways which can help us to have


    a better mindset and can lead us to the paths of positive
    emotions. Positive emotions such as hope, joy, optimism,
    contentment and gratitude can help us to make an emotional
    well being and a high self- esteem. We should move and
    apply to those ways and methods which can help us to
    enhance our positive emotions.

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