Feelings
Happy, sad, cry — where emotion lives on the body, and on the face.
Focus
The chest and the 'feeling finger'
Emotion signs cluster on the chest, over the heart, and many use the bent middle finger — the dedicated 'feeling' handshape. Learn it once, unlock a whole family.
Your face carries the intensity
The difference between 'okay' and 'thrilled' is not a different sign — it's the size of the movement and what your face is doing.
Signs in this lesson
Open any sign for its full history, sources and minimal pairs.
Brush a flat hand upward on your chest in a repeated circular pat — rising feeling.
Let both open hands slide down the front of your face, gaze falling with them.
Trace index fingers down your cheeks from under each eye — tears falling.
Brush the bent middle finger of an 'open-8' hand upward on your chest.
Brush the bent middle fingers of both 'open 8' hands up your chest in alternating circles.