After you index your feeling and mark your waypoint, you have the opportunity to write 100-150 characters describing your emotion. Based on clarity and readability studies, [13] we restrict the length of these notes to teach individuals how to articulate which emotions they are feeling and enhance their emotional literacy with brevity and comprehension.
Emotion tracking helps to quantify our feelings. By recording your emotional moments, you can provide insight for yourself, or for medical professionals to analyze and interpret.
Emotion tracking also teaches awareness and self-compassion. Self-compassion is not based on positive judgments or evaluations; it is a way of relating to ourselves. [14] Self-compassion is also how we feel connected to others rather than feeling separate or isolated. [15]
Phil Stutz, a therapist, author, and renowned psychiatrist, said: “It is very rare in life that you get a chance to record something at the climactic, most important moment. And then you come back to it. Whether it's in a week or a year, it doesn't matter. There's a time gap. And in that time gap, you experience the forces of healing, of recovery.” [16]
