Essay on Emotions

Emotions form a characteristic feature among individuals. Emotions are used as a generic term to represent a number of feelings or experiences. There are certain responses which are embedded in the behavior and are regulated by body mechanisms to show the feelings of an individual whenever he is in any situation. For example, color and scent impacts mood and is determined to affect the cognitive performance. It has been found that smooth colors and relaxing fragrances physiologically as provokes cognitive changes and therefore influences mood, in particular, enhance the focus and avoids individual from distraction. This is probably the one major reason why scents and colors are given importance in décor of meeting rooms. The responses are diverse which aid as emotions and mood, for instance, some individuals feel refreshing, some becomes more determined, some feels joy and churlishness which is ultimately reflected in his mood.  Emotions are feelings that can be intense and directed at someone or something. However, mood and emotions are subsequent to each other, the major difference between is that mood is relatively less intense than emotions.  Emotions are identified to be more fleeting as compared to mood. For instance, when an individual faces a rude behavior, he turns angry. However, the feeling of anger is strong, but it comes and passes by quickly sometimes within a second. Besides, when an individual is in a mood, he can pass several hours or sometimes days with consistent feeling.

Exploration of mood is usually based upon in relation with the emotions and temperament. Temperament is likely treated as an inherent trait which is associated with personality.  Temperaments, however, are often referred as diffuse emotions which are vague and complement an individual’s mood with specific emotions. For example, some individuals usually appear out happy and joyous and tend to find positivity in any circumstance whereas some remain irritable or nervous.  Emotions are defined as a state of consciousness where a person is able to experience the arousal of feelings. Besides, the state of consciousness allows him to distinguish them from other mental states for instance awareness of physical sensation, cognition, and volition. This entails both the moods and emotions are related to feelings, but the mood is the sense where feelings are interpreted as a pervasive state of mind.

The mood changes are unpredictable and often the change in response to something and somewhat irrational.  This is because there is more than one factor which overlaps to form mood expressions and it is difficult to say how and when it may change and in what dimension. However, this is not always the case and it is not always that mood changes are unpredictable. The mood changes again relate to one’s temperament and how he perceives things. For example, people dealing with addicts are usually found to be angry, tired, and frustrated.  There is always interference from external factors upon mood changes.  However, not all the changes are negative, but mood also represents positive feelings such as laughter, and joy. Generally, the term of mood is used to represent the negative feelings such as of petulance, irritability, grouchiness, anger, and self-pity. This is because the mood is generally perceived as stronger feelings and since the negative feelings are asserted as more strong than positive ones because of their capacity to linger, the mood is usually associated with negative feelings.