Prologue Teacher, Now is the Time to Focus on Emotions

1) 'Fire', an intense expression of an existence that had no choice but to endure

Angry, displeased, and burning unpleasant feeling
Mindfulness for Teachers) How to guide students who have become angry and have become their attitude towards life.
Someone needs to be released and feel frustrated and wronged
Mindfulness for Teachers: How to Care for and Wisely Resolve Grievances

2) Here and now, the time to care for myself, ‘sadness’

A feeling of suffocation, depression, and sadness that comes like a cold
Mindfulness for Teachers: Creating a Routine to Overcome Depression
Similar yet different, shameful feelings of shame, guilt
Mindfulness for Teachers) Perfectionism has many good points, but requires balance
A feeling of listlessness that is different from fatigue and is endlessly dejected
Mindfulness for Teachers) Learned Helplessness: How to Overcome It.

3) The fastest reaction to protect myself is 'fear'

Fear, the starting point of scary, fearful, and uncomfortable emotions
Mindfulness for Teachers: Practicing How to Overcome Fear
Anxiety, worry, feeling uneasy and restless
Mindfulness for Teachers) Things to Keep in Mind When Your Teacher Identity Feels Shaky

4) 'Dislike', a signal to become a better person than I am now

Feelings of jealousy and envy that arise without intention
Mindfulness for Teachers) Recognize the signals your inferiority complex is sending you.
A feeling of boredom and irritation that is not fatal but is becoming increasingly uncomfortable
Mindfulness for Teachers) When you feel irritated, stop and think about calming strategies

5) The more you enjoy it, the more abundant the flowerpot becomes, 'happiness'

Feeling content and happy, feeling content and happy
Mindfulness for Teachers) Use happy emotions like this.
A light and refreshing feeling of freedom without any awkwardness
Mindfulness for Teachers) When you find yourself thinking, 'Am I being negative?', remember:

A training class to face my emotions
Face the fire
Confronting injustice
Facing Depression and Sadness
Facing Shame and Guilt
Facing helplessness
Facing Your Fears
Facing Anxiety and Worry
Facing Envy and Jealousy
Facing boredom and frustration
Facing happiness
Facing the feeling of freedom

Appendix (List of Emotion Words / Teacher Sentiment Analysis)
Epilogue
References

Teachers who are hurt in schools where they often experience things that secretly cross the line,
As I unravel the threads of 'emotions' that I thought I knew well but didn't know in detail,
Beyond mind care and self-healing, it is used as energy for teacher growth!

Emotions and reason have distinctly different functions.
They are complementary to each other, but while reason is slow in processing, it is stable and reliable.
On the other hand, emotions are processed quickly and intuitively, but they also change in a variety of ways, making them difficult to utilize if you do not know or recognize the role of emotions.
We have received formal education for years to develop our rationality, and in our daily lives, we make and implement countless choices and decisions based on rational judgment.
Most teachers use reason to solve many problems in school life.
Teachers' reasoning plays a significant role in students' learning, living, counseling, and even in processing official documents on the work portal.


When preparing for a class, running a class or club, or preparing for a school task or event, reason determines and carries out various procedures to ensure that the task is completed.
If nothing happened like that, a teacher's life would be really smooth.
But then, suddenly, the student blurts out:
“Teacher, why do you discriminate against the students?” “Teacher, do you know your class is really boring?” Sometimes, I get hit with a verbal bomb without being able to defend myself.
"Teacher, isn't this going too far? Why are you doing things so arbitrarily?" Sometimes, I even hear abusive language from the students' guardians.
"Is it all about the teacher? What did my child do wrong? Will they come to their senses if I report them to the media and file a complaint with the Blue House?" It would be great if reason could function calmly even in these crisis situations, but in reality, that's often not the case.


Most of the problems at school that are difficult to solve through reason alone are relationship problems.
It is related to human relationships within the school and relationships between students and their guardians.
Withdrawing from or severing ties might solve the problem immediately, but school as a workplace is not flexible in that regard.
Once a homeroom teacher is appointed, he or she remains in that position for one year unless there are special circumstances, and once assigned to a school, he or she must remain there for at least three years.
When unresolved problems continue to pile up in a situation where teachers cannot avoid or cut off relationship problems, they become psychologically discouraged and their sense of efficacy and self-esteem decrease.
Also, they may become depressed, lethargic, or suffer from severe stress such as anxiety and tension.


Unconditional comfort and support, such as patting, can be helpful at this time, but they clearly have limitations in confronting the fundamental problem.
The most effective thing to do in this situation is to develop sensitivity to your own emotions and needs and utilize them.
To understand your emotions and figure out how to use them, you need 'sensitivity training'.
Teachers' awareness and care for their students' emotions have a significant impact on their students' sense of efficacy and well-being in school.
In other words, teachers' emotions are directly linked to the quality of school education.
Motivation and rapport building are necessary during class, and teacher emotional flexibility is also important in life guidance and counseling.
This is because teachers must have inner peace in order to recognize students' emotions and conditions.


This book explains why teachers should not simply give up or ignore their emotions, while also suggesting ways to confront and fully examine their own emotions and put them into practice.


Teacher Growth Psychology: How Mindfulness Training to Face Your Emotions Makes Your Life Special

This book examines core and fundamental emotions, such as anger, resentment, depression, sadness, shame, guilt, helplessness, fear, anxiety, worry, envy, jealousy, boredom, irritation, happiness, and relief, focusing on situations and cases that teachers commonly encounter in the field among the emotions that humans universally feel.
The cases introduced in the book are reconstructed based on the concerns and inquiries the author received from teachers in the field through lectures given at training centers of provincial and metropolitan offices of education over a long period of time.
These examples provide detailed guidance on where each emotion arises and how to recognize and confront these emotions on your own.
Also included at the end of the book is a simple worksheet to help you practice facing your emotions.


Emotions always reside in one place in our hearts.
So perhaps studying emotions means focusing entirely on yourself.
When teachers focus on their own emotions and minds, their sense of efficacy and self-esteem are bound to increase.
We have continuously accumulated knowledge through textbooks and books, and have developed our reasoning, but compared to that, we have not learned even a hundredth of our emotions, so it is only natural that it is difficult to manage emotions.
It is an overly 'rational' idea to master all emotions at once and deal with them freely.
As you gradually practice becoming more aware of your emotions through this book, you will move beyond the vague belief that you know your emotions well and gain the standards and basis to accurately view them.


These standards and groundings give us more room to take better care of our own emotions.
Caring for and regulating your emotions means being able to control the intensity of your emotions and regulate your behavior based on those emotions.
This provides teachers with a realistic, sustainable, and concrete strategy that can increase their satisfaction and sense of efficacy with school life.
This book will provide many teachers with an opportunity to cultivate mindfulness and take time to care for their emotions, which have been relatively neglected compared to reason.