Emotions Tracking Chart: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

1. Name what the emotion is doing in your body
   Track the physical signs of the emotion as they move through — this alone reduces their intensity.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
2. Track your emotions over time
   Log feelings briefly across days to see the patterns and triggers you would otherwise miss.
   Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill
3. Map your emotional landscape
   Identify which situations reliably produce which emotions for you — before you need to regulate them.
   Situation Selection, Made Practical
4. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
   After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
5. Rate emotional intensity before and after
   Record your emotional intensity (0–100) at the start and end of each thought record to track real change.
   The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool
6. Map your personal emotion triggers
   Know which situations, times of day, and states reliably trigger your most intense emotions — so you can intervene upstream.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
7. The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
   The Feeling Wheel, developed by counselor Gloria Willcox in 1982, is a visual tool that organizes emotions in concentric rings from six core emotions (glad, mad, sad, scared, disgusted, powerful) outward to increasingly specific nuanced feelings. It helps people name their emotional experience more precisely — a capacity research calls emotional granularity — which is associated with better emotional regulation and reduced distress.
8. Observe the emotion without feeding it
   When a strong emotion hits, watch it without adding the story that keeps it going.
   The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
9. Expand your emotional range by studying the outer rings
   Spend 5 minutes with the outer ring of the Feeling Wheel weekly, learning the names of emotions you do not yet use.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
10. Apply somatic tracking to difficult emotions as well as pain
    The same curious, non-fearful attention that retrains pain responses can be applied to emotional sensations in the body.
    Somatic Tracking, Made Practical

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• When a feeling takes over I’m just lost inside it, like it’s the whole room→
• My moods seem to come out of nowhere and blindside me, and only afterward do I half-notice it tends to happen around the same situations→
• My moods seem to come out of nowhere→
• I can analyze my feelings all day long, but it stays in my head and never actually moves through me→
• I do all this work on my thinking but it stays totally abstract→

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