For example, English has many color-emotion phrases which might influence color-emotion pairings (e.g., red with rage, green with envy, feeling blue). Sometimes having clarity about your emotions allows you to accept them for what they are and is sufficient enough for you to move forward. Accordingly, color-related terms, including basic colors within a language, are likely to play a role on how we both perceive and link color with emotion. However, the actual colors were not present, rather the words blue, white, red, etc. This can mean changing your routine, doing activities that boost your mood, talking to a friend about what’s been going on, or writing in your journal about it. 'Along the outer edges of the emotion wheel, youll find low-intensity emotions such as acceptance, distraction, boredom, and so on. To test these hypotheses, study participants used the Geneva Emotion Wheel (an empirical tool for measuring feelings and emotions) and were instructed to choose which emotions came to mind for each color.

Take action: Once you’ve identified the reasons for how you’re feeling, you can take action to manage your reaction to them and deal with the triggers.

Since the wheel only has two dimensions (left-right. You may be feeling lonely and isolated and craving some social interaction. On the wheel, there are 10 emotions that are activating (e.g., fear, amusement), while 10 others are calming (e.g., sadness, contentment). However, it’s been months since you’ve seen your friends. For instance, maybe you’re feeling sad but nothing sad happened that day. Spend some time reflecting on your day, past week, month, or even year. When people are emotionally heightened, it’s often not due to a single event but a series of experiences.

Reflect on why you’re feeling this way: The next step is to dig a little deeper to discover potential causes for these feelings.

Giving words to those feelings can help you feel more in control of them. Look at the wheel and go through the list of emotions to find one or more that describes that feeling. color copies of the HS Emotion Wheels and HS Needs Wheel or download PDFs in. Name your emotion: Maybe you had a bad day at work. Learn about emotional granularity and how to use the HS Emotion Wheels and.

Color emotions wheel