The emergence and development of any emotion must be caused by certain reasons. For example, gratifying phenomena cause happy emotions; Unfortunate events cause sad emotions; Frustration leads to depression and so on. Improper happiness, anger, sadness, joy, inexplicable sadness and fear are not manifestations of emotional health.
Step 2 behave appropriately
A certain stimulus will cause a certain emotional response, and the response and stimulus should be consistent with each other, such as joy because of success and pain because of failure. Happy is happy, sad is sad. If you laugh when you lose a loved one, or be happy when you are frustrated, or get angry when you are respected, it is an unhealthy expression.
3. Moderate reaction
The duration and intensity of emotional expression should be appropriate, not endless, not too intense and not too indifferent. The greater the stimulus intensity, the stronger the emotional response; Conversely, the weaker the emotional response. If a weak stimulus causes a strong emotional response, it is a sign of unhealthy mood.
4. Emotional stability
Emotional stability indicates that a person's central nervous system activities are in a relatively balanced state, and also reflects the coordination of central nervous system activities. Generally speaking, the emotional reaction is relatively strong at first, and gradually weakens with the passage of time. If the reaction is strong and weak, unpredictable, and often in an unstable state, it is a manifestation of unhealthy emotions.
Step 5 be in a good mood
Mainly in a happy mood, there are more positive emotions than negative ones. If a person is often depressed, sad and depressed, it is a sign of mental health.
Step 6 control yourself
Healthy emotions are self-regulated and controlled. A healthy person should be the master of emotions, and can turn negative emotions into positive emotions and passion into calmness.
Extended data:
The essence of emotion:
Emotion is a psychological phenomenon mediated by the subject's needs, desires and other tendencies. Emotion has three components: unique physiological activation, subjective experience and external expression. Conforming to the needs and desires of the subject will cause positive emotions, on the contrary, it will cause negative emotions.
Subjective experience is the individual's self-feeling to different emotional states. Each emotion has a different subjective experience, which represents different feelings of people, such as happiness or pain, and constitutes the psychological content of emotions. Emotional experience is a subjective feeling, and it is difficult to determine what the objective stimulus is. Different people may have different emotions about the same stimulus. Therefore, the study of emotional experience generally adopts the method of self-report.
The external expression of emotion is usually called expression. It is a quantitative form of body movements when emotional state occurs, including facial expression, posture expression and intonation expression. Facial expression is a pattern composed of all facial muscle changes, such as flat forehead and eyebrows, cheeks raised when happy and upturned corners of the mouth. Facial expression pattern can express different kinds of emotions in detail, so it is the main symbol to identify emotions.
Posture expression refers to facial expressions of other parts of the body, including gestures and body postures. For example, people beat their chests and feet painfully and rubbed their hands angrily. Intonation is also an important form of expressing emotions. Intonation is expressed through the changes of intonation, rhythm and speech speed, such as high intonation and fast speech speed when you are happy; When you are in pain, your voice is low and your speech speed is slow.
Physiological activation refers to the physiological response of emotions. It involves a wide range of nerve structures, such as brain stem, central gray matter, thalamus, amygdala, hypothalamus, locus coeruleus, pineal gland, prefrontal cortex, peripheral nervous system, internal and external endocrine glands, etc.
Physiological activation is the level of physiological activation. The physiological response patterns of different emotions are different, such as normal heartbeat rhythm when satisfied and happy; When you are afraid or angry, your heart beats faster, your blood pressure rises, your breathing frequency increases, and even there is a pause or pause; Blood vessels shrink in size when suffering.
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