Punjabi/Conversation/ExpressingEmotions

ਭਾਵ ਵਿਅਕਤ ਕਰਨਾ - Expressing emotions
Emotions such as happiness, sadness and anger in humans are responses to events happening around them. These emotions can broadly be classified as positive e.g. happiness, negative e.g. sadness or neutral. Your expression of emotions is also an event which produces emotions in someone you are interacting with. Your expression of happiness may make someone happy and vice versa. Therefore using right expressions for your emotions is important so as to avoid, to the extent possible, producing negative emotions in others.

Expressing happiness
Happiness is a fuzzy concept and can mean different things to different people. Broadly speaking happiness is a mental state of positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. The contentment and joy are reflected in the expressions of happiness. On a non verbal plane a smile is excellent expression of happiness. Here is a sample of verbal expression of happiness.

Expressing surprise
Surprise is the result of unexpected event. It can manifest in the raising of eyebrows and dropping of jaws.

Expressing sadness
Sadness is an emotion characterised by sorrow, despair, disappointment, loss or helplessness.

Expressing anger
You become angry when you feel wronged by others. Sme people are by nature irritable and become angry without any rational basis. Expression of anger helps in remedying the wrong and addressing the grievance. However unnecessary expression of anger may create strained relations. It is therefore absolutely necessary that expression of anger be controlled and appropriate.

Expressing fear
Fear is caused by danger to life, health, wealth or harm to the loved ones. The instant response to fear is fight as in the case of killing a snake or flight as in the case of recoiling or moving away from the snake when encountered suddenly.

Expressing disgust
The emotion of disgust is caused by a gory scene, a miserable condition, immoral actions etc. Sample response to a gory scene.