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Give yourself permission to recognize and develop your own color patterns as they relate to your experiences.” Maybe pale blue symbolizes anger and red represents calm. In art therapy, we recognize these patterns and also remind individuals to connect to their own color palette. Or a light pink takes you back to the cover of your favorite book.Ĭlinical Director and art therapist Adele Stuckey says, “We often connect certain emotions with specific colors (think: red is frequently related to anger or love). Maybe a certain shade of blue makes you think of the walls of your grandmother’s house. Rob Walker recently had an interesting newsletter where he talked about how colors can have specific meaning to individual people. At the end of the week, think back–are you feeling differently now than when you made the first layer? Did any emotions show up more than once? Using the color for that emotion, add a new layer to a piece of artwork each day. What has been your experience with that feeling? Do any particular memories come to mind? Create a piece of art using the color you chose that illustrates or represents this memory for you.Įvery day for a week, use the mood meter to identify the dominant emotion you are experiencing. Without reading the words on the meter, select a color that speaks to you today. As you create your art, think about how the different moods interact, overlap, or come into conflict with one another. Identify 2-3 moods from the mood meter, and make art with only those colors. In one day, for instance, I may be feeling apprehensive about an upcoming medical appointment, inspired by a new project at work, and also calm because my child is napping and it’s almost Friday. Once you have identified your mood on the chart, you can process things a step further with the art prompts below. If you’ve found identifying your mood on the chart helpful, you might also like the app, also designed by Marc Brackett. We tend to overuse words like “overwhelmed,” when really maybe we are stressed. To find your quadrant of emotion, first ask yourself: Am I feeling negative or positive? (Find that side on the chart.) Then ask: Am I feeling high energy or low? (Now you’ve got your quadrant.) Reading the different options will help you to get closer to a more specific emotion beyond the basic ones we reach for all the time. In its most simple usage, the mood meter can provide you a menu of options to consider as you try to hone in on your mood. We cannot hope to express or process things that we cannot name. And processing it is even more challenging. Emotions, most of all, impact both our physical and mental health.Īnd if you can’t name an emotion? It’s incredibly difficult to regulate it. They affect and influence our decision making, our relationships, our work performance, and our creativity. Emotions affect our ability to pay attention and function in the world around us. Understanding our emotions is crucial because they have such a big impact on our lives. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO NAME OUR EMOTIONS? Many people simply aren’t fluent in the language of emotional vocabulary. People tend to boil emotional identification down to happy, sad, and angry. In her research, Brené Brown has reported that the number of emotions most people can identify in themselves and in others is…three.