WHAT EMOTIONAL SPINNING IS NOT

Emotional spinning is not the regular day-to-day feelings that people experience and demonstrate . Emotional spinning is not the acute, short-lived moments of agitation or disturbance that are a reaction to normal challenges.

Emotional spinning is an effect, or process, which endures long enough to have consequences. Acute processes are like breezes; they come and go with a bit of a dramatic flair, but are non-consequential, unless the breeze is carrying a contagious disease. (The consequences of a toxic-laden breeze may be quite collectively impressive.) When people get together day after day at work, tension happens and conflicts happen. Tension and conflict are normal gusts and breezes associated with human beings that hang out with other human beings. No matter what else human beings produce throughout a day, they have emotions that produce feelings. People working together are going to find joy and annoyance as they associate with one another to create products and complete performance tasks . Human feelings happen and spin into all the nooks and crannies of human life, including the worksite like simple breezes blowing across the face of planet Earth. No part of the Earth is untouched by the wind. This is a good thing. Emotions are good. Emotions are breezes, dust devils and short windy gusts. Emotional spins are more like big winds, tempests, gales, storms, typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones and batten -down-the-hatch-and-head-for-the-cellar tornadoes!

Many human feelings are the kind that can be described as positive like happy, enthusiastic, hopeful, ambitious, energized, loyal, and so forth. Some feelings are the kind that can be described as negative like angry , fearful, gloomy, annoyed, tense, and so forth. Some feelings are comfy and some are uncomfortable. Both kinds of emotions, positive and negative, are normal, human, useful and to be expected. Emotions are okay, even at the work site. Most healthy adults can handle periods of joy and periods of discomfort without it interfering with their jobs. Most businesses can handle periods of joy and periods of discomfort without significant risk or losses. Businesses that employ human beings should expect and be willing and able to handle the full range of human emotional expression without coming apart at the seams.