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8 Basic Emotions – Shame and Pride – Part IV of IV

There’s a psychological conceptualisation that places shame and pride along a horizontal axis, pride spanning the right end and shame spanning the left end.  The shame-pride axis is an excellent depiction of the balance between these two emotions that one wants to aim...

8 Basic Emotions – Love and Loneliness – Part III of IV

Love.  What can one possible say of love that hasn’t already been written about or spoken of?  The arts in all its wondering forms has dedicated oceans of expression to this universally sought after emotion.  It takes on many guises and extends well beyond the...

8 Basic Emotions – Joy and Anger – Part II of IV

Joy!  Have you ever taken the time to really consider what joy actually is?  Not just the fleeting, surface level happy feeling that comes when we feel “good”.  I am referring to that unbridled joy that splinters out into our extremities and has us brimming with utter...

8 Basic Emotions – Sadness and Fear – Part I of IV

Emotions!  What are they exactly?  We aren’t provided with an education on them.  With all the years we spend at school or otherwise, unless you are in the psychological, philosophical or social science disciplines, there isn’t an introduction to ‘sadness’ or ‘fear’...