Page 101 - Advanced Biblical Counseling Student Textbook

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Let’s look at one more chart that has
to do with emotions. Many
psychologists agree that all emotions
fit onto the following two-dimension
chart. You’ll notice the horizontal line
has unpleasant on one end and
pleasant on the other. The vertical line
has intense and mild on opposite
ends. Find the emotion frustrated.
This is an unpleasant emotion and can
be somewhat intense, depending on
the situation. Notice its location on
the chart. Does its location make
sense to you? Now find tired. It is
located by mild as it is not a very
intense emotion, and it is not an
unpleasant feeling. One more. Find
happy. Happy is pleasant but not very
intense. If you can think of emotions
not on this chart, decide where you
would place them. You will see that
every emotion fits somewhere within
these two dimensions.

Let’s take a closer look at three of these emotions. First, we will read about happiness. What function
does it serve? What influences our experience of each? Then we will spend time reading about fear and
anger in a separate section.

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