Last year, I went for a training for teachers and EI (Emotional Intelligence) was one of the topics discussed. Just like you mentioned, there is always a positive and a negative side to emotional intelligence, when you have positive emotions inside of you, you always describe feelings that lack negativity and negative emotions describe unhappy emotions. During the training, we are made to understand that, to better understand our emotions, we have to be self aware of the things we do and say, manager ourselves around people, because our actions always affect others positive or negative ways, be conscious of your environment and most importantly, take responsibility for your actions. Thanks for taking out time to work on this post. Very lovely.
EI is at the heart of everything we do. We don't learn of it until its teachings come upon us. I wonder what the world would be like if we learned to maintain an awareness of it.
Definitely will be a better place. My actions recently put a student of mine in a bad state, honestly, the young man was battling in his mind if he should confront me to tell me how my actions affected him, but before he could do that, I went back to him and apologize, I told him, I'm aware of what I did and I am apologizing because I know if someone does that to me, I wouldn't feel okay, hence forgive me. The young man immediately was happy again and his response was, thank you sir, I really appreciate your honesty, I was coming to meet you already. It's very important for us to be self aware of how our emotions affect us and others, then and only then we can apply intelligence in solving human relationship problems.
Yeah, it happens, unfortunately. I am not amazed at how many times now I catch myself in the middle of an action wondering why I'm doing something. Most of the time, I justify my actions and move forward.
It isn't the struggle between each other that's the problem. It's our struggle with the id and those shepparding the emotional atmosphere around us.
Very true too. It's really nice of you sharing. Thanks