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Techniques

The Feeling Wheel

A Tool for Expanding Awareness of Emotions and Increasing Spontaneity and Intimacy

Pages 274-276
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The Feeling Wheel is designed to aid people in learning to recognize and communicate about their feelings. It consists of an inner circle with 5 sectors and two outer concentric circles. The sectors are each labeled with the name of a primary feeling, viz., mad, sad, scared, joyful, powerful, and peaceful. The outer rings contain names of secondary feelings related to the primary ones. The wheel has proven useful in assisting clients to learn how to identify, to express, to generate, and to change feelings. Suggestions for employment of the Feeling Wheel are provided.

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Gloria Willcox

Gloria Willcox is with The Network of Christian Counseling Centers, lnc., St. Luke's United Methodist Church, St. Petersburg, Florida.