Mental Focus Managing Emotions cards

Managing Emotions cards

An emotion regulation toolkit for understanding emotions and shifting emotional states

Joy, sadness, anger, fear or anxiety – we can't always choose our feelings, but we can influence how we relate to them and what we do in response to them.

The Managing Emotions cards offer practical help in recognizing, naming more precisely and managing feelings more consciously. With easy-to-use questions, exercises and strategies, the card deck supports you in choosing your next step in line with your goals and values, rather than reacting automatically.

What can the card deck help with?

• Recognizing feelings and bodily signals.

• Enriching your emotional vocabulary.

• Reducing the intensity of strong emotions.

• Preparing in advance for difficult situations.

• Finding the path between calming down and conscious action.

• Understanding recurring emotional patterns and needs.

• Mobilizing inner resources and desired qualities.

• Becoming aware of and deepening pleasant experiences.

• Supporting others emotionally.

Three complementary tools

Emotion map

The map, assembled from four parts, arranges feelings according to their pleasantness and energy level. It helps you recognize your current emotional state more easily and name it more precisely.

Emotional V.Á.L.T.Ó. (váltó = 'switch')

It shows five possible directions for consciously shaping your emotional state. It helps you prepare for a difficult situation, reduce the intensity of a strong feeling, turn towards the values that matter to you, and notice and reinforce the good that is present.

Emotion bridge

In eight steps, it leads from recognizing and more deeply understanding a feeling to a small, achievable action in line with your values.

Box contents

The deck contains a total of 141 cards and a detailed guide:

• 18 large cards

• 48 Emotion cards

• 30 Self-soothing cards

• 10 Resource-building cards

• 10 Prevention cards

• 25 Best Self cards

• 1 guide

Among the various exercises you'll also find techniques based on breathing, sensory experiences, shifting attention, changing perspective, changing your environment and supportive connection.

You can use the cards in a current situation, for daily self-reflection, before a difficult conversation or an important decision, or for regular emotional skill development. You can go through the exercises alone or with the support of a trusted partner.

Game developer: Bella Bagdi, psychologist, mindfulness teacher (MBSR, MBCT), mindful self-compassion teacher (MSC)

Professional reviewer: Dr. Csilla Jeszenszky

The self-discovery and skill-building cards do not replace medical, psychological or psychotherapeutic care.

Product details:

Box contents:

• 141 cards
• Guide booklet for using the cards

Card size: 105×140 mm + 70×105 mm
In a quality box with a magnetic closure.
The cards are recommended for ages 14 and up.