Stress and Emotions

  What is emotion one might say? Well emotion is what gets us by in our everyday lives. Emotion also helps indicate how we feel in appearance to others and if we have enough emotional intelligence we can understand our emotions on a level unique to our perceptions. Emotional intelligence is a difficult understanding of our own emotions and how we know what emotions we were displaying at any giving time. For example fast emotional intelligence is knowing what emotion you felt a couple of hours ago, slow emotional intelligence is knowing what emotion you where displaying a week later. Emotion in a strange way can also do damage to our body in several ways, one emotion like depression can cause our body to enter "I will make you sick to match your depressing symptoms."

  Here is a very interesting video on the emotions of men and yes I picked it so women could understand men to have feelings/emotions.

Men and emotions; men and feelings

This upcoming video is slightly different of what is emotion but it does explain what certain activities trigger or counteract other emotions. I still find the video insightful especially the parts when she states playing games stops depression and enhances other social skills as well.

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

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When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In this moving talk, McGonigal explains how a game can boost resilience -- and promises to add 7.5 minutes to your life.

Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how.



 "If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.” - Jane McGonigal