| By giving feelings a physical presence Flower Feelings enable children to identify emotions as something other than themselves. People tend to mistakenly think of feelings as who they are: "I'm sad" instead of an experience they are having "I'm feeling sad." Or we mistakenly regard feelings as an action, "stop being angry!" When feeling angry is completely acceptable. It's just not acceptable to push your classmate in response to your anger. Flower feelings demonstrate that there are no "bad feelings" all feelings are embraceable it's how you express them that matters. |