Emotion is energy. With the help of emotions, we change or maintain the distance between us and another person. Different emotions support the process of changing distance in different ways. Any emotion speaks of some kind of human need. Accordingly, a person experiences tension, because the person needs to somehow satisfy this need. When emotions are expressed and needs are satisfied, the tension goes away. Basic emotions are those emotions from which more complex emotions can be composed. Basic emotions are: anger, disgust, fear, shame, gratitude, guilt, tenderness, satisfaction, interest, sadness. These emotions cannot be split into any other emotions. And they are further divided into the following groups of emotions: Autistic emotions are those emotions that are not directed at another person, namely: fear, anger and others. Contact emotions are those emotions that are directed towards any person, namely: tenderness, gratitude and others. There are emotions that are evaluative and social - these are shame and guilt. Complex emotions are made up of several basic emotions. For example, such a complex emotion as envy consists of such simple emotions as anger, shame and interest. Basic emotions, unlike complex ones, are very easy to transform into some kind of action or formulate some kind of desire. But complex emotions are much more difficult to transform into action or desire, because they contain several needs. These needs may even be opposite. Emotions have a toxic level, which occurs when emotional arousal becomes excessive, and there is no release to this arousal. Such a strong emotion becomes unbearable for a person. Absolutely any basic emotion can become a toxic emotion. Any emotion may not be pleasant for a person to live with if there was a ban on this emotion in the parental family, and he does not know how to express this emotion. Absolutely all basic emotions are present in the background of any situation. We will get to know these emotions better in my next articles..