Self-awareness is key to developing emotional intelligence because, when you understand yourself and others well, you are better able to deal with any internal or external emotion.
The process of developing emotional intelligence is not as mysterious or scary as you might have been led to believe. The vast majority of human beings have the capacity to feel emotions and use them to improve their lives.
Being able to effectively deal with and manage your emotions will help you feel happier and more balanced, solve problems, get along with others, and improve your quality of life.
Here are some ideas to help you develop your self-awareness and emotional intelligence:
- Realize that emotions are a normal part of life and that even the uncomfortable ones can benefit you.
- Understand that emotions aren’t positive or negative, they are all potentially beneficial.
- Learn to identify and name the emotion you are feeling inside at any particular moment.
- Do something that is positive with the emotion. For example: If you feel sad about something, you can use those feelings to learn and grow and take action in way that will be beneficial to you and others.
- Keep practicing feeling your emotions and using them in a positive way until you feel comfortable with any emotion that arises.
- Once you are comfortable with your own emotions, start applying these ideas to other people’s: Identify and empathize what what they’re feeling and be there for them to take positive action.
Developing emotional intelligence is the process of learning to identify and feel your emotions, use them positively, and relate to other people’s emotions as well. The idea is to be able to feel what’s going on inside you and use it to improve your life, and doing the same thing with other people’s emotions.
What will you do to increase your self-awareness and emotional intelligence?
Cheers,
Guy
