emotional awareness
Knowing your feelings
Emotional awareness is the ability to recognize and understand feelings—both your own and others'.
It involves noticing emotional states as they arise rather than being blindly driven by them: Her emotional awareness helped her recognize when she was becoming defensive.
The term appears frequently in psychology and self-help contexts, often as a foundation for emotional intelligence and healthy relationships.
- emotional intelligenceCapacity for managing feelings
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- self-reflectionExamining one's own mind
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
in touch with feelings · attunement · tune in · felt sense · inner dialogue · emotional resonance · reading the room · self-perception · nonverbal communication · stress management · self-regulation · emotional literacy · pause · coping strategies · impulse control · self-soothing · sensing · sympathy
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- mental wellnessmental health support, self-care, mental wellness, emotional wellness, coping skills
- awarenessalertness, attention, cognizance, conscious, attentiveness
- emotional expressiontone, laughing, mood, yelling, crying
- coping skillscoping skills, coping strategies, coping mechanisms, emotional regulation, self-control
- EQ skillsemotional intelligence, EQ, self-regulation, emotional literacy, emotional expression
emotional awarenessemotional repression
Blocking one's own feelings
intellectualization · defensiveness · dissociation · compartmentalization · emotional detachment
emotional awarenessinner emptiness