How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Understand the connection between emotions and the body — recognising physical signals like butterflies in the stomach (nervous), clenched fists (angry), racing heart (scared or excited), and tight shoulders (stressed)
Lesson
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“How Emotions Feel in Your Body means matching body signals to emotions like nervous, angry, scared/excited, and stressed. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Body map outline
- Signal cards: butterflies, clenched fists, racing heart, tight shoulders
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Worked example. Butterflies can mean nervous. Clenched fists can mean angry. Racing heart can mean scared or excited. Tight shoulders can mean stressed.
Optional challenge. For How Emotions Feel in Your Body, add clenched fists or tight shoulders.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: signals matched; support used. This session samples body–emotion links, not mastery of interoception.
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How Emotions Feel in Your Body means matching body signals to emotions like nervous, angry, scared/excited, and stressed. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes placing signals on a body map, naming emotions, then checking a fresh signal.
Discuss possible body signals without treating one sensation as a diagnosis.
Discuss possible body signals without treating one sensation as a diagnosis.
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Match body signals to feelings.
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How to Talk About Mental Health
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Check understanding
- Name at least three body sensations and match them to the emotions they signal
- Notice a physical feeling in their own body and identify the emotion behind it
- Explain why the body reacts physically when we have strong emotions
“Before a school performance or sports day, can your child notice and tell you about the physical feelings in their body — like butterflies in their tummy — and connect them to being nervous or excited?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Emotional Literacy
- Age range
- Ages 6–9
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