The Timeline of Emotions: Trigger, Experience, Reaction

The best tool I can teach you comes from a joint project by the Nobel Peace Prize winning Dalai Lama and the psychologist Paul Ekman. Their Three Step “Timeline of Emotions” model helps us find a pattern in the oodles of emotional journeys we are stimulated to participate in each day.

Step 1: Something in your environment triggers your emotions.

Step 2: You experience a feeling / feelings with a certain (set of) qualities: anger, fear, disgust, sadness, or enjoyment.

Step 3: You react in a particular way, either reflexively (automatically) or carefully, to that feeling.

Source: Timeline of Emotions

I want us counter Disinfolklorists to embed this way of modelling a mental routine we experience a thousand times a day into our minds: Trigger, Experience, Reaction. It is essential for realising the full power of Disinfolklore as an analytical method.

Source: Timeline of Emotions

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