Thursday, 20 February 2014

Emotion (anger and happiness) exercise.


Within this exercise you had to stand in a neutral position with your eyes closed. You would then have to visualize and remember the most recent moment that you were happy and angry. Once you have found the rawness of emotion you would access that emotion through the stomach and would only be able to release it through your physicality and voice. Then you would work your way up with a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. 10 would mean that either emotion (happy or angry) would have to be at its most extreme moment this means being very loud with massive over the top gestures. While 1 means that either emotion would have to be at its lowest moment and that you are quiet and have very little gesture within your movements.

I believe that this exercise was very beneficial in allowing me to relax and not be self-conscious of myself. While undergoing this exercise I discovered that once I was less conscious of myself I began to contribute and engage fully with the exercise. During some parts of the exercise when releasing the emotion it actually felt quite natural and very relaxed afterwards. From my own experiences of doing this exercise I found that portraying anger was a lot easier than happiness. I believe this was due to the anger emotion being a lot bigger and important to me personally therefore, I was able to express that emotion with a lot more passion and desire than the happy emotion. 

While undergoing the exercise with the rest of the group while my eyes were closed I started to get a bit curious and worried especially when doing the anger emotion. As I was unable to see what was actually going on around me plus I could hear all these angry and depressing voices. 

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