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20 emotions existing as objective fact
- Steph Turner
- Jan 31
- 10 min read
Updated: Feb 16
Emotions objectively convey the objective fact of inflexible needs
Objectively speaking
Your emotions exist as objective facts. Each emotion conveys the fact of your current wellbeing.
While the content of your emotions slips into subjectivity, your emotions never lie to you that something is not quite right. Emotions objectively report, however subjectively imprecise, the current status of your inflexible needs.
Respond or react
How you handle each evoked need runs the gamut from illicit to appropriate. If unable to promptly resolve the need, your pain naturally builds. And often tempts you to try to do something less appropriate to ease the mounting discomfort.
You may settle for a lower level of functioning, which feels better than none at all. As an objectively recurring phenomenon.
It takes a village
You can properly resolve many of your needs on your own, but not all of them. Other needs you routinely face depend on others’ responsiveness. You can never resolve your need for friendship or for security from dangers, for example, completely on your own.
The less others appropriately respond to such needs, the less you can appropriately resolve them. And the more you slip into painful unwellness. Then it becomes increasingly difficult to respond properly to any of your publicly neglected needs.
Yeah, it hurts
Whether you overreact or properly respond to your needs remains independent from the objective reality of your objectively existing needs. Apart from the current state of needs your emotions report, you feel no pain.
Pain is not the problem as much as the threats your pain tries to report. No need, then no pain. There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs like these.
Your pain warns you that your ability to fully function is under threat. Removing the threat removes the cause for pain, as you get back to full functioning, to full wellness.
If you settle for pain relief without removing the threat prompting such pain, you will always be in pain. Apart from your unresolved inflexible needs, you feel no pain.
20 emotions conveying your objective needs
Apart from an inflexible need to connect more deeply with others, you feel no alienation.
Sometimes you need to connect more deeply with others to fully function. If unable to connect more deeply with others, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling alienated is subjective, such as how you might connect more deeply with others, the emotion factually reports your objective need to connect more deeply with others. Failing to resolve the need to connect more deeply with others factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to connect more deeply with others factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for lingering alienation.
Apart from an inflexible need to reject some apparent threat, you feel no anger.
Sometimes you need to reject some apparent threat to fully function. If unable to remove the apparent threat, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling angry is subjective, such as how you can remove the threat, the emotion factually reports your objective need to reject something you find unacceptable. Failing to resolve the need to remove what’s unacceptable factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to reject what is truly unacceptable factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for alarming anger.
Apart from an inflexible need to make sense of something, you feel no confusion.
Sometimes you need to make sense of something not immediately clear, to fully function. If unable to make sense of something, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling confused is subjective, such as how you can find clarity, the emotion factually reports your objective need to make sense of something and find clarity. Failing to resolve the need for clarity factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need for clarity factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for unsettling confusion.
Apart from an inflexible need to redirect your energies, you feel no depression.
Sometimes you need to redirect your energies to fully function. If unable to redirect your energies to replenish your overextended self, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling depressed is subjective, such as how you interpret that you cannot do much, the emotion factually reports your objective need to redirect your energies. Failing to resolve the need to redirect energy to refill your emptied tanks factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to redirect energies factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for crushing depression.
Apart from an inflexible need to rely upon others, you feel no disappointment.
Sometimes you need to rely upon others to fully function. If unable to rely upon others, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling disappointed is subjective, such as holding unrealistic expectations of others, the emotion factually reports your objective need to rely upon others. Failing to resolve the need to rely dependably upon others factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to rely upon others factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for disconcerting disappointment.
Apart from an inflexible need to remove something offensive, you feel no disgust.
Sometimes you need to remove something offensive to fully function. If unable to remove something offensive, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling disgusted is subjective, such as what you regard as pure and impure, the emotion factually reports your objective need to remove something offensive. Failing to resolve the need to remove whatever is offensive factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to remove whatever is offensive factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for uncomfortable disgust.
Apart from an inflexible need to cover something exposed, you feel no embarrassment.
Sometimes you need to cover something exposed to function fully. If unable to cover something exposed, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling embarrassed is subjective, such as how you assume others must be shocked by what they find, the emotion factually reports your objective need to cover something vulnerably exposed. Failing to resolve the need to cover something that shouldn’t be exposed factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to cover whatever gets vulnerably exposed factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for disturbing embarrassment.
Apart from an inflexible need to handle something menacing, you feel no fear.
Sometimes you need to handle something menacing to function fully. If unable to find the courage to handle something menacing, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling afraid or anxious is subjective, such as how certain you feel that you must flee, the emotion factually reports your objective need to handle something menacing. Failing to resolve the need to face and handle something menacing factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to face and handle some threat factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for paralyzing fear.
Apart from an inflexible need to have things go as planned, you feel no frustration.
Sometimes you need to have things go as planned to fully function. If unable to have things go as planned, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling frustrated is subjective, such as how things may go more as planned than first perceived, the emotion factually reports your objective need to have things go as planned. Failing to resolve the need to have things go as planned factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to have things go on as planned factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for upsetting frustration.
Apart from an inflexible need to adjust to a deep loss, you feel no grief.
Sometimes you need to adjust to a deep loss to fully function. If unable to adjust to a deep loss, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of grieving is subjective, such as the depth of the loss to which you must somehow adjust, the emotion factually reports your objective need to adjust to a deep loss and find a new sense of meaning. Failing to resolve the need to adjust to the significant loss factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to adjust to a deep loss factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for troubling grief.
Apart from an inflexible need to restore your respect for others, you feel no guilt.
Sometimes you need to restore your respect for and from others, to fully function. If unable to restore your respect for others, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling guilty is subjective, such as believing your actions were more offensive than they actually were, the emotion factually reports your objective need to restore your respect for others. Failing to resolve the need to restore your respect for others factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to atone for past offenses factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for further distressing guilt.
Apart from an inflexible need to avoid any risk of harm, you feel no insecurity.
Sometimes you need to avoid any risk of harm, to fully function. If unable to avoid any risk of harm, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling insecure is subjective, such as regarding less familiar situations as inherently dangerous, the emotion factually reports your objective need to avoid any risk of harm. Failing to resolve the need to avoid harm factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to avoid any risk of harm factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for worrying insecurity.
Apart from an inflexible need to enjoy what another enjoys, you feel no jealousy.
Sometimes you need to enjoy what another enjoys, to fully function. If unable to enjoy what another enjoys, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling jealous is subjective, such as perceiving another’s interest in your partner as flirtatious, the emotion factually reports your objective need to fairly access what others enjoy. Failing to resolve the need to access what others access factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to enjoy equitably what others enjoy factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for painful jealously.
Apart from an inflexible need to connect with someone, you feel no loneliness.
Sometimes you need to connect with someone, to fully function. If unable to connect with someone, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling lonely is subjective, such as how you sense no one will want to take any interest in you, the emotion factually reports your objective need to connect with someone. Failing to resolve the need for deeper social connection factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need for meaningful social connection factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for isolating loneliness.
Apart from an inflexible need to control your situation, you feel no powerlessness.
Sometimes you need to control your situation, to fully function. If unable to control your situation, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling powerless is subjective, such as downplaying how much impact you really have in the moment, the emotion factually reports your objective need to remain atop your situation. Failing to resolve the need to maintain control over your wellbeing factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to control whatever happens to you in some situation factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for naked powerlessness.
Apart from an inflexible need to rethink your actions, you feel no regret.
Sometimes you need to rethink your actions, to fully function. If unable to rethink your actions, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling regret is subjective, such as how you read what could have been, the emotion factually reports your objective need to reconsider your actions. Failing to resolve the need to rethink your actions factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to rethink your impactful actions factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for costly insecurity.
Apart from an inflexible need to promptly get something done, you feel no restlessness.
Sometimes you need to promptly get something done, to fully function. If unable to promptly get something done, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling restless is subjective, such as mischaracterizing how long something may actually take, the emotion factually reports your objective need to promptly get something done. Failing to resolve the need to get things done factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to get things done factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for unsettling restlessness.
Apart from an inflexible need to deal with some loss, you feel no sadness.
Sometimes you need to deal with some loss, to fully function. If unable to deal with some loss, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling sad is subjective, such as assuming something is permanently lost only to find it later, the emotion factually reports your objective need to deal with some loss. Failing to resolve the need to deal with some loss factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to get through some casual loss factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for discomforting sadness.
Apart from an inflexible need to guard your social image, you feel no shame.
Sometimes you need to guard your social image, to fully function. If unable to guard your social image, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling shame is subjective, such as misreading another’s body language as scorn, the emotion factually reports your objective need to guard how others perceive you. Failing to resolve the need to manage your public image factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to guard your social image factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for worrying shame.
Apart from an inflexible need to meet some high expectation, you feel no stress.
Sometimes you need to meet some high expectation, to fully function. If unable to meet some high expectation, you cannot fully function as an objective fact. And your wellness suffers.
While the content of feeling stressed is subjective, such as the high expectations you impose upon yourself, the emotion factually reports your objective need to meet some high expectations. Failing to resolve the need to meet such expectations factually compromises your wellness.
Promptly resolving your need to reach some noble expectation factually restores your wellness. Which then removes any cause for mounting stress.
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