Emotions really do matter…

Studies have shown that emotions influence our attention, memory, and learning, our decision making, creativity, mental and and physical wellbeing, our ability to form and maintain positive relationships and even our how well we do at school or at work.

Our emotions and our behaviours are intrinsically linked, although sometimes we forget how important recognising this is, despite this long list above – we don’t always manage to join the dots to understand how our feelings can be linked to our actions.

We want you to think about how actions and behaviours impact mood and how well you are able recognise your own emotions. Being able to identify and label how we feel can help us have the capacity to better regulate the emotions we have that can lead to negative actions.

Understanding our emotions can help us take better care of our mental health.

We can also be limited in the words we use to describe our emotions, how many times do you use simple terms to describe complex feelings, it's almost as if in our emotional confusion, we lose the capacity to fully understand and explain ourselves.