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Calm it Down

The Art of Feeling: Your Emotional Color Wheel (Summer Short)

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ready to get colorful with your feelings? I want to show you how to think of your emotions as a palette, filled with blues of sadness, reds of passion, and every hue in between. Listen in to this Summer Short as we dig into how to mix and balance these colors to paint a picture of a life truly felt. Get your brushes ready; we're about to create an emotional masterpiece!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever stood in front of a canvas, brush and hand, palette full of vibrant colors, and wondered, where do I even start?

0:12.0

The age-old paradox of the blink canvas. I mean, think about it. It can be both exhilarating and yet paralyzing at the same time.

0:23.6

It's pretty fascinating to think about it, right? The way we feel can be so easily related to something as basic, yet as intricate, as a color.

0:35.6

Today, we're going to paint, and not with watercolors, not with chalk,

0:41.2

and not even with crayons, but we're going to paint with our emotions. And guess what? It

0:49.3

is stunning. I'm Chad Lawson, and's comment down in three, two, one.

1:03.2

Imagine for a moment that each emotion you experience is a specific color. Blues for sadness, perhaps, reds for passion and love, yellow

1:16.2

for joy, green for envy, so on and so forth. Now, just as an artist mixes primary colors

1:25.2

to create an entire spectrum. We, too, mix our basic emotions to experience a plethora of our feelings.

1:34.3

What happens when you blend happiness with a smidge of nostalgia?

1:40.3

Well, you get that golden amber of contentment, perhaps a shade that we might call memory-laced

1:48.0

joy, or what happens when you swirl some excitement into a pot of nervousness?

1:55.0

Ah, I have a name for that one. That's the orange hue of anticipation.

2:00.0

I mean, it's pretty incredible how one primary

2:04.7

emotion can bleed into another, right? Have you ever thought about how emotions, how they mix,

2:10.5

and how they interact with each other, right? Creating something completely new, yet equally genuine.

2:19.0

Have you ever stopped to consider what your emotional color palette actually looks like?

2:25.4

Do you have more cooler tones, or are they warmer?

2:29.7

Are there colors you gravitate towards, more or less?

2:40.0

Are there emotions you gravitate towards, more or less? Are there emotions you find yourself feeling on a regular basis? You see, just as with painting, balance is key.

2:46.0

Too much of one color, and you risk losing the intricate nuances of the portrait that you're

2:51.7

painting. And yes, balance, easier said and done, right? So it's like, how do we find it? How do we

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