EMOTIONAL BAROMETER CARDS (BOX)

It can be remarkably hard to tell other people how we really feel; it may even be tricky for us to get clear about our own moods. Mostly, if people ask how we are, we'll just say, 'Fine' - knowing that we've provided only a sharp abbreviation of what is actually going on in our minds. These cards are a tool to help us overcome our vagueness: offering definitions of twenty moods that we can all recognise but that can be hard to pin down and explain. They include descriptions of - among many other things - the sense of feeling weepy, nostalgic, anxious, and dreamy, helping us reach a clearer understanding of our inner emotional weather. They can also be passed on to friends and colleagues (or simply displayed on our desk) so that the world can better know what's going on inside us, without our needing to explain too much.