Expressing emotions can be harder to do than we can imagine. In the book “Looking out Looking in” by Ronald B. Adler and
Neil Towne gives you guidelines for
expressing emotions. The guidelines consist of the following concepts: Recognize your feelings, think about how to describe your feelings, and consider when and where to express your feelings. These concepts have helped to improve my
communication skills with my husband and other people. Recognizing my feelings is one of the guidelines to express emotions. First, recognizing your feelings means to be aware of your emotional states. Applying the concept to recognize my feelings has helped me to gain a better sense of what I am really feeling. It also allows others to understand me better. This theory has being helpful in my life because I struggle saying what I really feel. For example, after an argument with my husband, I can’t find words to say that will best describe how I am feeling. Sometimes I don’t even know what I am feeling which it doesn’t let me communicate with him. I believe this can happen because I don’t take my time to be alone and to put my thoughts and feelings together. I also know that the more I am awa