palette: free interactive emotional palette for self-awareness

How It Works

• • Start with base emotions represented by distinct colors
• • Explore nuanced variations of each emotion
• • Click to add emotions to your personal palette
• • Switch between stack and blend visualization modes
• • Watch your emotional landscape animate and flow
• • Remove emotions as your state changes
• • Discover the relationships between different emotions

Benefits

• • Develop deeper emotional awareness and literacy
• • Visualize complex emotional states
• • Understand emotional nuances and variations
• • Track emotional changes over time
• • Improve emotional vocabulary
• • Practice emotional self-reflection
• • Enhance emotional intelligence
• • Create beautiful representations of your inner state

When to Use

• • During daily emotional check-ins
• • When processing complex feelings
• • Before important conversations or events
• • During therapy or counseling sessions
• • As part of a mindfulness practice
• • When feeling emotionally unclear
• • To track emotional patterns
• • Any time you want to better understand your feelings

Science Behind It

The Palette experience draws on concepts from color psychology, emotional intelligence research, and visual learning theory. It suggests that associating emotions with specific colors might aid in better recognizing and understanding those emotions. The process of identifying and articulating emotions can foster metacognition and emotional awareness. Additionally, visual representations may help in processing complex emotional states. This method aims to engage both the analytical and creative aspects of the brain, potentially enriching emotional understanding.

Practice Tips

• • Take time to explore each emotion's nuances
• • Notice how emotions blend and interact
• • Use the descriptions to refine your understanding
• • Don't judge your emotional state - just observe
• • Revisit your palette throughout the day
• • Consider journaling about your observations