VIAwareness of emotion would require that we are able to notice bodily changes and reactions that precede the experience of emotions and moods. Many of us are not really in touch with our body. We are able to sense only extremely gross sensations in our body and not the subtle ones.
It is not very easy to be emotionally self aware. If we randomly study about lOO adolescents and young adults in our society - this is the very same cross sections of people who are under our care – not many of them would be aware of their emotions,
able to name them correctly, able to own them, or take responsibility and act appropriately. However, this is a goal that the formation process has to achieve, if candidates are to turn out to be emotionally mature adults.
Once we are aware of our emotions, we need to learn to manage them. Managing emotions is another important step in becoming emotionally mature. We can learn to express them appropriately. Part of this management is the capacity to make proper judgment on whether it is helpful to express them in a particular situation or not. It is a mistake to presume that we need to express all our emotions whenever we feel them. We can also learn to handle our emotions without expressing them, by processing them cognitively by ourselves.