Have you ever wondered what emotions seem to come up for you more than others?
Maybe you’re a Body Type and are more attuned to anger.
Or perhaps you’re a Head Type and tend to intellectualize your emotions instead of letting yourself feel them.
Or maybe you’re a Heart Type and experience ALL the emotions.
We all experience the four core emotions to some degree:
- Anger 😡
- Sadness 😔
- Fear 😨
- Happiness 😊
We naturally seem to be more attuned to one or two of these emotions more than the others.
We unconsciously push away some of these emotions to get on with our everyday lives.
But pushing away feelings really doesn’t help anyone, least of all ourselves.
Using The Feelings Wheel to Understand Your Emotions Better
There’s a great resource therapists often like to use called The Feelings Wheel (sometimes called the Emotions Wheel.
The Feelings Wheel goes into more detail about the four core emotions (plus surprised, disgusted, and bad on this particular wheel model) and the secondary and tertiary emotions to the core feeling.
It’s not enough to say we’re angry, sad, afraid, or happy about something. Getting down to the how and why can give us so much more information about our emotions at any given moment.
It’s perfectly okay to let ourselves feel what we’re feeling, learn from that feeling, and then let it go.
The Four Core Emotions and the Subtypes
So how do each of the subtypes experience emotions, and how do they differ from the other subtypes of their same type?
Below you will find an assessment of how each of the 27 subtypes experiences the four core emotions of anger, sadness, happiness, and fear and whether it’s an emotion they tend to be more or less in touch with.
As you’ll notice, some of the subtypes don’t overuse or underuse any of the emotions. These subtypes are either so attuned that they use all the emotions regularly or so unattuned that they use none.
If you’re interested in having a printable version of the information below, download my free guide to Emotions and the Subtypes.
BODY TYPES
Type Eight
Self-Preservation 8
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS 😔
Social 8
More in Touch With:
ANGER, HAPPINESS 😡😊
Less in Touch with:
FEAR 😨
Sexual 8
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
FEAR 😨
Type Nine
Self-Preservation 9
More in Touch With:
FEAR 😨
Less in Touch with:
HAPPINESS, SADNESS 😊😔
Social 9
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS 😊
Less in Touch with:
ANGER, SADNESS 😡😔
Sexual 9
More in Touch With:
SADNESS 😔
Less in Touch with:
ANGER, FEAR 😡😨
Type One
Self-Preservation 1
More in Touch With:
FEAR 😨
Less in Touch with:
HAPPINESS 😊
Social 1
More in Touch With:
NONE
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS, FEAR 😔😨
Sexual 1
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
FEAR 😨
HEART TYPES
Type Two
Self-Preservation 2
More in Touch With:
SADNESS, HAPPINESS 😔😊
Less in Touch with:
ANGER 😡
Social 2
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS 😊
Less in Touch with:
FEAR 😨
Sexual 2
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS, SADNESS 😊😔
Less in Touch with:
NONE (generally in touch with all the emotions)
Type Three
Self-Preservation 3
More in Touch With:
FEAR 😨
Less in Touch with:
HAPPINESS, SADNESS 😊😔
Social 3
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS 😊
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS 😔
Sexual 3
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS, SADNESS 😊😔
Less in Touch with:
ANGER 😡
Type Four
Self-Preservation 4
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS 😊 (on the outside)
Less in Touch with:
ANGER, FEAR 😡😨
Social 4
More in Touch With:
SADNESS 😔
Less in Touch with:
HAPPINESS, ANGER 😊😡
Sexual 4
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS 😔
HEAD TYPES
Type Five
Self-Preservation 5
More in Touch With:
FEAR 😨
Less in Touch with:
ANGER, HAPPINESS 😡😊
Social 5
More in Touch With:
NONE
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS, HAPPINESS 😔😊
Sexual 5
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS, FEAR 😔😨
Type Six
Self-Preservation 6
More in Touch With:
FEAR 😨
Less in Touch with:
ANGER, SADNESS 😡😔
Social 6
More in Touch With:
NONE
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS, HAPPINESS 😔😊
Sexual 6
More in Touch With:
ANGER 😡
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS, FEAR 😔😨
Type Seven
Self-Preservation 7
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS, FEAR 😊😨
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS 😔
Social 7
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS, SADNESS 😊😔
Less in Touch with:
FEAR, ANGER 😨😡
Sexual 7
More in Touch With:
HAPPINESS 😊
Less in Touch with:
SADNESS 😔
