Emotion Wheel | Identify Your Feelings

🧭 How to Use the Emotion Wheel

1. Start by selecting a core emotion that feels closest to what you're experiencing
2. Choose a secondary emotion that narrows it down further
3. Pick a specific feeling that best describes your exact emotional state
4. Save your emotion to track patterns over time

1️⃣ Core Emotions

Start here - which core emotion are you feeling?

2️⃣ Secondary Emotions

Select a core emotion first

🌟 Why Naming Emotions Matters

Emotional granularity - the ability to precisely identify and label emotions - is a key skill for mental health and wellbeing. Research shows that people who can name their emotions with specificity:

• Experience less intense negative emotions
• Cope better with stress and challenges
• Make better decisions under pressure
• Communicate their needs more effectively
• Show greater emotional resilience

This emotion wheel is based on Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions, which identifies 8 core emotions that combine and vary in intensity to create the full spectrum of human emotional experience.

Tip: Use this tool regularly, especially during times of strong emotion. The simple act of naming what you feel can help you process it more effectively.