Name it and tame it with this guided journal designed to help you identify your emotions--a
simple yet powerful tool for mindful living. One of the most important aspects of mindfulness
is being able to describe—and put a name to—what you are feeling right now. Studies show that
if you can notice and name your feelings you will be calmer less stressed and happier.
Describing how you are feeling might seem like an easy thing to do but in fact many of us
have trouble finding the words to describe how we are feeling and resort instead to vague
labels like fine ” okay ” or meh.” Some people might have seen a feelings wheel which lists
the major categories such as anger disgust fear happiness and sadness but those are very
broad and do not capture the specificity of the feelings that most of us experience every day.
This unique journal solves the problem by providing a comprehensive and easy-to-use list of
more than 800 feelings emotions sensations to help you figure out exactly what you are
feeling at any moment. Since feelings often are first felt in the body you can begin with the
list of physical sensations or move right into the list feelings which range from simple to
subtle to complicated. Once you have chosen the words to describe your feelings turn to the
thoughtful prompts that invite you to explore why you may be feeling a certain way and write
it all down. The intensity of a feeling the duration of a feeling the context in which the
feeling came about--prompts for each of these factors help us understand why we feel something
and give us the emotional awareness to be able to cope with these feelings. The result of
noticing naming and understanding? A calmer more mindful state of being.
