We can feel different things on different days. Sometimes we feel miserable because we have an argument with a friend and sometimes we feel worried about something. It’s important to understand our feelings and learn how to show them so that we don’t make our friends, our family and ourselves sad.
Babies and children show their emotions by laughing or crying because they can’t say what they feel and why. As we grow up, we learn how to understand how we are feeling. This is called emotional awareness. It also helps us have good relationships with other people.
When we feel strong emotions, or we are stressed there are chemicals in our brains that can make us feel happy, annoyed or sad. This chemical is called cortisol. It can be good for us because it gives us energy. However, if we feel too stressed then we have too much cortisol in our brains and it’s difficult to sleep.