Now emotions are just energy in motion, / they’re composite / biological signals /— the signals made up of all / the pounding heart rate, / the sweaty palms, / the tension in the muscles / or whatever is going on biologically, / it’s stereotypical energetic patterns /— energy in motion, / they are e-motions. // Now we all have emotions, / every single second of every single day, / even those fellows. // Feelings, / however, / are something entirely different. // Feelings are the awareness in our mind / of the energy. // So the energy is always there / but we don’t necessarily feel it / and that’s where we’re stuck, / is we haven’t really learned / to understand our own emotional life. // So we go through our life believing / how we’re feeling on a moment by moment basis, / it’s down to somebody else. // So we actually say this / — you annoyed me, / you made me unhappy, / you did it to me, / and we point the finger at other people, believing other people / the cause of our own unhappiness. So Newsflash, / nobody’s doing it to you, nobody is making you feel / these things. // I mean, / what do you think that happens / when you get frustrated with somebody else? // Do they come up to you / and inject you with frustration, / with the chemicals of frustration? // Do they create the electrical signals / of frustration, / the pressure waves, / the sound waves? // No. // You did that, / you created that inside yourself / in response / to their poor behavior. // So if you can accept / that you’re doing it, / it’s not them, / it’s you. // Now that simple truth / takes you from what we call / the victim position / and it crosses the threshold / to ownership. // That’s the most important transition / you’ll ever make in your life. // So to help you / navigate that, / first and foremost, / you have to understand / where am I / in the universe of emotions. // Now if I asked you to write down what emotion you’re experiencing right now / and gave you five minutes, / you might have a list of things / and then we said, / OK put your hands up who’s got how many / and we did a sort of test of how many you got, / the average in a room like this would be about ten or twelve. // There are 34,000 emotions / that you can experience. // Most people go through life / with ten or twelve. //

And just to try and help you navigate, / I just want to show you an app that we’ve built / to help people know where they are / in the universe of emotions. // So we’ve plotted all these emotions / on a map / and this map shows you / the axis. // So to the / top / of the axis / in the universe of emotions / we’ve got the ones that are sort of more energy, / if you like, and to the bottom the ones that are more relaxed. // And to the left / the ones that are more positive / and to the right the ones that are more negative. // So you can see that we’ve plotted maybe the twenty commonest emotions there / and right now as I’m talking to you right now, / you’re somewhere on this group. // You’re somewhere in the universe / experiencing / one of these planets and we can bring in / the next hundred emotions, / we can bring in the next 200 emotions, / the next thousand, / so we’ve built this app / to try and crowd source with you all 34,000, / we’ve built it with just 2000 as a starter. // And you can enter into / the one of the 64 galaxies that exist and start to navigate round / and see where you are, see where you are / in relation to some of the other emotions, / because if you don’t know where you are, / you’re lost. // Now you would never get control of your own state / and it’s really important / not only for your health, / for your well-being, / for your success, / whatever you’re doing, / whether you’re a sportsperson / or a business leader / that you can start / to control your own emotional state / of what’s going on for you. // And if you don’t know where you are, / how can you possibly control any of this stuff? // And the answer is you can’t. // So the start of the journey is even knowing which planet are you on, / and this is designed to help you, / and you can see in the top corner there, / it shows you roughly where you are in the universe at any point in time. // Now we can zoom in / into one of these 64 galaxies and look at a specific solar system. // So we’re going to go into / maybe sociable, / we can see. // So let’s zoom in / to the solar system of sociable / and start to see what planets / around you. // So if you want to move from sociable to someone else / and then gradually navigate / yourself to a different part of the universe, / you can see where you are. // And most importantly you can track where you are, / so you can enter some notes. //