From this base, effective communication is most likely to evolve. Acknowledge Emotions Accurately recognizing and naming your emotions is helpful when trying to voice them to another. Emotional language is universal, but there are often mixed messages, and perhaps denial or guilt, when it comes to talking about them. But opening up this important area helps us to share the experience of being human. When people share emotions, both painful and joyful, bonds form.
Support is deepened and the experience can be healing.
Human emotions are called by many names and vary in intensity. But when it comes right down to it, there are only eight. Learning effective emotional language can be greatly simplified by narrowing the range of intensities into these eight human emotions. Using these terms to help another understand what you are feeling can be very effective. When cancer is first diagnosed, anger and other negative feelings are common responses.