What is an Emotion? Paul Ekman help us to find a good definition of what's an emotion.

Paul Ekman is the pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to face expresion.He says that emotions are  what we see in what people do.They found 15 things present in emotions. Emotions are not private, most of emotions have a signal in our faces and voices that informs to the others what are you feeling. Anger, fear sadness,disgust,enjoy and surpres. He sad that to improve emotional life is to bring consciousness awareness into emotions. To future teachers we have to know that  it's important to know that emotions can ocurr briefly and they can last in a short time too, so a child can be angry in one moment and to seconds later change. And we have to read between lines in order to preserve the child well-being.

Paul Ekman sentence that i really like:

WE DON'T CHOOSE TO BE EMOTIONAL, IT HAPPENS TO US