The Ping Ding Thing uses four basic emotions to illustrate how each quadrant responds to their environment. Sadness, anxiety, happiness, and anger. Each quadrant expresses these four emotions in different ways. So as not to overwhelm my audience, here is a start-
Each quadrant struggles to express one of the four above emotions; typically, people can more easily identify what others struggle to express as opposed to what they are comfortable expressing. Below you will find a list entitled “They don’t know when they’re feeling ____” My dad did not mean that people are in the dark about what they’re feeling, but let’s be honest sometimes we struggle to know. He meant those moments when you hear someone say, or find yourself saying, “I’m fine,” “I feel weird,” “ugh,” or “I’m just off.”
They don’t know when they’re feeling ____
Ping-heart ~ anger
Ping-head ~ happiness
Ding-heart ~ anxiety
Ding-head ~ sadness
Disclaimer – Therapy can certainly skew this because we are hopefully taught to identify emotions with which we have previously struggled. Self-awareness can certainly skew this in the same way. Think back to before you were the self-aware person you are today and see if any of this resonates. Even if you’re unsure of your quadrant, I’m sure we can all identify with “why do I feel like this?!”
And if you read through this and thought that “ugh” was a perfectly valid emotion…you’re right.
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