What are you thinking? This includes your thought patterns, how you label the emotion, the speed of your thoughts, etc.Įmotional regulation means you can calm down and cope with your emotions in an appropriate way. This is the conscious experience during the emotional experience. However, with worry, you may get fidgety and hypervigilant but with excitement, you may be giggly and talk a lot. Behavioral:Īs mentioned, you experience a similar arousal level when you’re both worried and excited. However, the two emotions feel very different. Both emotions cause an elevated arousal level. For example, excited and worried both fall into the yellow zone. There are more specific physiological responses to each emotion. The emotions that fall into each zone have a similar effect on arousal.īlue zone is low energy, green is ideal, yellow is slightly elevated and red is extremely high arousal. What is your arousal level? In the Zones of Regulation, each zone actually represents a level of arousal. There are three components to every single emotion we experience.
