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We have now come full circle through the Five Elements and our Constitutional type and back to the emotions. We have spoken about emotions as if everyone understands what we mean. Psychologists do not necessarily agree about what an emotion is. Experience has taught us to think of an emotion not as an isolated thing, but as having many parts to it.

An Emotion is Made up of Many Different Parts

1 Sensations: ‘a rush of energy moving up in my chest’, ‘a tightening in my stomach’, ‘a sinking in the chest, right down to my navel’.

2 Thoughts or spoken words: ‘I feel so good about you’, ‘I hate it when he does that’, ‘I am so disappointed’.

3 Expression: facial expression, gestures, body posture, voice tone.

4 Behaviour: reaching out to touch someone. Clenching fists, slumping and letting the head drop.

5 The situation and roles: we have to take into consideration whether we are on stage, in a classroom, with a close friend or talking to a shop assistant.

Because an emotion is made up of parts, it can occur in different ways and to varying degrees. The emotion associated with Wood is anger, but this really begins as a normal assertion of ourselves and then, when we are blocked, we can experience frustration, upset, irritation, anger, rage and finally we go, as people say, ‘ballistic’. As the emotion escalates, the parts combine in different ways. All these can be associated with the Wood Element. We do not, of course, have to be a Wood type to get angry.