Dealing with Complex Emotions like Gratitude, Empathy and Motivation
Summary
- Emotional maturity happens around 25 years of age.
- Children are born with survival emotions (fear, anger, joy, sadness, surprise, disgust) but don’t have the ability yet for the complex emotions like gratitude.
- “Thank you” is social decorum and not gratitude.
- Young children, first, need to learn how to process feelings.
- Emotional regulation in adults and children is about managing the survival emotions (F.A.S.T. emotions).
- To practice gratitude write down each day one thing about one person you’re grateful for (do this for one person for six months).
- The main blocker to practicing and manifesting gratitude in our lives is the cycle with the F.A.S.T emotions.
- Reference to F.A.S.T emotions (our survival emotions) Episode 122.
Tara Rama 