FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS

What are feelings and emotions?

Nobody can help having feelings - they are part of everyone. We feel different things all day long as different things happen to us.
Sometimes we feel sad - eg. when someone we love goes away.
Sometimes we feel happy - eg. when we are having fun playing.
Sometimes we feel scared, angry, guilty, lonely or any of a huge range of human emotions.
It is important not to be ashamed of having feelings. Everyone has them - good and bad.  we can all learn to show our feelings in ways that are helpful to us and to others, not ways that are hurtful.
What counts is what we do about our feelings -

Looking at emotions

When we are feeling a strong emotion, it's because chemicals are released into our brains. These can make us feel happy, sad, angry etc.
When you watch TV or movies you can usually work out what the character is feeling by looking at the face. Are you good at 'reading' faces?
Here are some faces and a list of words to describe feelings.

emotions and feelings strongly influence the Development each child throughout their life and learning, that is why we must take into account the changes and the motivation that is given at home and in school for a better performance

EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOR

In order to carry out the correct behaviour—that is to say, correct in relation to the survival of the individual and the group—humans and other higher animals developed innate drives, desires, and emotions, and the ability to remember and learn. These fundamental features of living depend on the entire brain, yet there is one part of the brain that organizes metabolism, growth, sexual differentiation, and the desires and drives necessary to achieve these aspects of life. This is the hypothalamus and a region in front of it comprising the septal and preoptic areas. That such basic aspects of life might depend on a small region of the brain was conceived in the 1920s by the Swiss physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess and later amplified by Erich von Holst. Hess implanted electrodes in the hypothalamus and in septal and preoptic nuclei of cats, stimulated them, and observed the animals' behaviour. Finally, he made minute lesions by means of these electrodes and again observed the effects on behaviour. With this technique he showed that certain kinds of behaviour were organized essentially by just a few neurons in these regions of the brain. Later, von Holst stimulated electrodes by remote control after placing the animals in various biologically meaningful conditions.
When such acts result from the artificial stimulation of the neurons, the accompanying emotion also occurs, as do the movements expressing that emotion.

The hypothalamus, in company with the pituitary gland, controls the emission of hormones. It is in control of body temperature, maintains the blood pressure and the rate and force of the heartbeat, and controls the body's need for water and electrolytes. The maintenance of these and other changing events within normal limits is called homeostasis; this includes behaviour aimed at keeping the body in a correct and thus a comfortable environment.

The hypothalamus is also the centre for organizing the activity of the two parts of the autonomic system, the parasympathetic and the sympathetic (see the autonomic system). Above the hypothalamus, regions of the cerebral hemispheres most closely connected to the parasympathetic regions are the orbital surface of the frontal lobes, the insula, and the anterior part of the temporal lobe. The regions most closely connected to the sympathetic regions are the anterior nucleus of the thalamus, the hippocampus, and the nuclei connected to these structures.
In general, the regions of the cerebral hemispheres that are closely related to the hypothalamus are those parts that together constitute the limbic lobe, first considered as a unit and given its name in 1878 by the French anatomist Paul Broca. Together with related nuclei it is usually called the limbic system, consisting of the cingulate and parahippocampal gyri, the hippocampus, the amygdala, the septal and pre-optic nuclei, and their various connections.

The autonomic system also involves the hypothalamus in movement. The expression of emotion and signaling to others depend greatly on the sympathetic nervous system. Emotional expression is also carried out by regions of the cerebral hemispheres above the hypothalamus and by the midbrain below it.