Improvement Emotional intelligence is key when it comes to finding happiness and success in life so, it is important to improve in certain areas of our daily lives. Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage our emotions in a constructive way to relieve stress and being able to interact with others. Being able to have control of our emotions is important because not being in control can have a negative impact on ourselves. It is also important to practice certain steps to relieve stress because it makes us perform our tasks betters such as our jobs. Emotional intelligence can also improve your physical health and mental health. It also improves our relationships with others by being able to communicate our emotions better
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When I get stressed I become moody. I become rude to my family and it is not a good situation to be in. I will give them attitude without them doing anything to me and then I regret taking my anger on them. Being able to calm down during stressing events is important because I will analyze situations better and resolve them quicker. For example, I am not doing good in my math class therefore, I am stressed about my exams and it has caused me to to take my anger on my family. There is few things that I can do to calm down during stressful times. For example in order to calm down I can do small breathing exercises that will help me to regulate my breathing. Robert Locke explains how to keep breathing controlled, “thee secret is to inhale deeply so that the chest and stomach are filled with air. If you are lying down, you can easily feel your stomach rising by placing your hands over your belly button area. Then exhale slowly. As you do so, concentrate on the movement you feel and also repeat a mantra such as ‘breathe in’ and ‘breathe out’”. Doing such exercise can help you calm down quickly under stress. …show more content…
I could improve by being able to have a moment to moment of self awareness with myself. Most of the time when I 'm home I feel sad or angry with myself over things that I don 't have control over and most of the time I shut my emotions down because I don 't know how to deal with them. This causes me to feel numb and its not a nice feeling. If something makes you feel negative in any sort of way a good tactic is to write what you feel, so in that order you can become aware of what all your feelings are. Although, theres so many negative feelings there is also positive ones. Dr. Patricia Thompson explains that, “People who experience more positive emotions enjoy better relationships and are more resilient in response to negative events”. If you focus on positive things your outlook on relationships with others will improve. Focusing on positive emotions up is key to feel happier. Core emotions such as anger, sadness, fear and joy. Those are strong emotions meaning if they are too powerful some people aren’t able to handle them. In order to be emotionally healthy and emotionally intelligent we need to be able to recognize such feelings and being able to accept them. By also, being able to manage stress it will become easier to deal with strong and displeasing emotions it helps the way we acknowledge and respond to our feelings.
When I get stressed I become moody. I become rude to my family and it is not a good situation to be in. I will give them attitude without them doing anything to me and then I regret taking my anger on them. Being able to calm down during stressing events is important because I will analyze situations better and resolve them quicker. For example, I am not doing good in my math class therefore, I am stressed about my exams and it has caused me to to take my anger on my family. There is few things that I can do to calm down during stressful times. For example in order to calm down I can do small breathing exercises that will help me to regulate my breathing. Robert Locke explains how to keep breathing controlled, “thee secret is to inhale deeply so that the chest and stomach are filled with air. If you are lying down, you can easily feel your stomach rising by placing your hands over your belly button area. Then exhale slowly. As you do so, concentrate on the movement you feel and also repeat a mantra such as ‘breathe in’ and ‘breathe out’”. Doing such exercise can help you calm down quickly under stress. …show more content…
I could improve by being able to have a moment to moment of self awareness with myself. Most of the time when I 'm home I feel sad or angry with myself over things that I don 't have control over and most of the time I shut my emotions down because I don 't know how to deal with them. This causes me to feel numb and its not a nice feeling. If something makes you feel negative in any sort of way a good tactic is to write what you feel, so in that order you can become aware of what all your feelings are. Although, theres so many negative feelings there is also positive ones. Dr. Patricia Thompson explains that, “People who experience more positive emotions enjoy better relationships and are more resilient in response to negative events”. If you focus on positive things your outlook on relationships with others will improve. Focusing on positive emotions up is key to feel happier. Core emotions such as anger, sadness, fear and joy. Those are strong emotions meaning if they are too powerful some people aren’t able to handle them. In order to be emotionally healthy and emotionally intelligent we need to be able to recognize such feelings and being able to accept them. By also, being able to manage stress it will become easier to deal with strong and displeasing emotions it helps the way we acknowledge and respond to our feelings.