Emotional literacy

Emotional literacy is the ability to express feelings with specific words. It’s very important to know how to express our feelings, to be able to communicate. Identification of our emotions also helps to identify feelings of other people.
This ability to name feelings is a form of power, and like all of the powers, it can be used not only to help, but also to hurt, so it’s very advisible to think what we are saying to others.
All of us have a natural emotional need to feel, for example, supported, listened to, understood, loved. It’s necessary to satisfy those needs especially for babes, because if not, a growing person might have a lot of problem in the future.
Everybody has a different level of knowledge about our emotions, only few are as smart in this area as they could be, so I think that talking about feelings, understanding and naming them is more useful and important to our life than we imagine.