Ensuring that Mankind’s Gift, Emotion, Remains Intact

Respecting Emotions Helps us Respect Each Other

Understanding people and judging their emotions is an art that not everybody excels at. Intelligence can be acquired but emotions must be fairly natural to the individual. Many might post an affirmative reply if they are questioned on their intelligence but how feasible is it to get such affirmations when the same people are probed into their emotional intelligence? You might give yourself a distinction in all these but where exactly do you stand in terms of emotional intelligence?
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Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Foremost important is to understand what we mean by emotional intelligence. EI is the ability to recognize, understand and manage our emotions while recognizing, understanding, managing and influencing the emotions of others. Its all about being aware of your feelings, understand how your emotions affect your decision-making perspective and how they impact your interaction with others. There is more to EI than being nice, soft and amicable to others. Its all about realizing what’s happening in the spur of the moment and using your emotions to put back things in place.

Individuals with high emotional intelligence are more open to thoughts and suggestions, have the ability to look at things from a different perspective and are more equipped to handle challenges by overcoming hurdles that surround them. In general, people with EI are happier, healthier and effective.

While people might be recruited based on their intelligence and aptitude the same guys are often terminated for lack of emotional intelligence. The need to understand people, interact with them, motivate individuals to be better workers and influence their thoughts and actions is critical for success of the organization and in turn the success of the employee. An employee who lacks these skills is no asset to the company despite his enriched intelligence. People management too is absolutely necessary for surviving through the thick and thins of the company without which there is a persistent risk of being thrown out of the organization.

Are you Emotionally Intelligent?
There are different things that analyze your EI level.

1. Your ability to recognize emotions both in yourself and in others.
2. Take a moment, think well and then speak as giving a pause before your talk helps you avoid repenting for something in the long run
3. Being criticized for your work is something that needs to be taken in a positive frame of mind as it provides you with an opportunity to learn. Push away thoughts of criticism and use this as a chance to make things work out in a better way
4. Be authentic. Talk only what you think, think only what you say and go by values above all.
5. Show empathy not by nodding to all of another person’s point of view but try to understand them. Don’t judge or brand them hastily but ensure to understand their frame of mind and appreciate things
6. Strengthen a relationship by focusing on the good things found in other. Who doesn’t like to be applauded or praised? So, why don’t we do the same to others too, gain their trust and build better relationships?
7. Feedbacks are essential to improve your style of working but never give those kinds of feedbacks that can hurt someone’s feelings or bring in negativity. Constructive criticism is the way to go as this is the only way to make the opponent consider it without feeling hurtful
8. Learning to accept mistakes and say sorry needs ample courage. By doing this you gain others’ confidence and in fact make others too realize that you value relationships above everything else.
9. Don’t stick to things but move on in life. Holding onto bad memories puts you a hostage to emotions and prevents you from delivering 100% of your capability
10. Fulfill your promises and commitments however big or small it might be
11. Don’t allow people to take undue advantage of your emotions in fulfilling their requirements. Protect yourself by protecting your emotional intelligence

Becoming Emotionally Stronger
Rather than introducing the concept suddenly it is better that children are trained to recognize emotions, understand them and respond appropriately to help themselves and the opponent in dealing with it. If you wish to become emotionally stronger as an adult it is pretty difficult but not impossible. Surround yourself with different people, learn something good from each of them and grow up in life. Come up with strategies to manage your emotions, for instance for anger management it is best to plunge yourself into yoga or meditation and analyze how well they have influenced you and people around you. Yoga and meditation have been the go-to help techniques for handling a variety of things other than anger and stress. Learn more about their advantages form the website www.firsteatright.com. The way we think (positive or negative) also affects the way in which we think about others.
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Emotions are a strong feeling that have the ability to take mankind to a better state. When each of us appreciate others’ feelings, give space for their emotions, don’t restrict their own emotions too much and develop the skill to handle emotions the world would seem brighter and more positive.

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