They serve as gatekeepers to a level of emotion that, like holiness, eludes a certain range of normalcy.
If you focus your energy and activity and thoughts and beliefs in a certain direction, toward a certain range of outcomes, and especially if you do so with passion, with directed emotions, then you are increasingly likely to "manifest" that outcome.
Moods typically facilitate certain ranges of object-directed emotions, but they form a class apart.
The "Sopranos" male audience can still rattle off favorite scenes and lines like batting averages, still attack and defend certain characters with the same range of emotions they bring to discussions about Kobe Bryant or Ray Lewis.
Studies show that children have a greater capacity for empathy when their own emotional needs are met at home. 2. Validate the Full Range of Emotions: Children need a certain level of self-awareness in order to develop empathy.
At the hospital, the Jets' headquarters in Florham Park, N.J., and a Manhattan hotel suite, Jenkins, 31, exhibited a range of emotions: nervous, excited, bored, energized, certain, reflective, stubborn.
