Topic 2 Cognitive and Affective Experiential Processes

Pay Attention to Feelings

• Increase the individual’s understanding and awareness of himself and the problem.
• Experiencing and expressing an emotional reaction to the events that take place in the environment.
• Manifestation of feelings about the problem and its solutions.

Dramatic relief can be achieved through movies, commercials, but also from unpleasant events in a person’s life (e.g. the fact that an obese child experienced a low performance in a basketball game can move him from one stage to another).