Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
When you have negative thoughts and emotions floating around in your head more often than not, the choices you make going forward in life are going to be influenced.
After all, whatever is swimming around in your head at the time of a decision is what typically affects that decision. If you are carrying around old baggage, it’s time to drop those emotional bags off so that you can create a future without fears or worry. [Read more…]
Emotional triggers are the surprises that we get when someone we love, or a situation, causes us to have a reaction that we haven’t processed yet.
For example, if you were yelled at as a child and you attached being yelled at to fear, you might get triggered as an adult when you are near someone yelling.
Triggers are typically childhood beliefs that aren’t necessarily true anymore and need to be addressed to save your relationships. Once you release your old triggers you can view the world from an entirely different place instead of through the eyes of a fearful child.
(after you read this article, be sure to tune into the Love and Abuse podcast for more on emotional triggers in relationships)
Can you accept the behaviors of those you love? If not, are you still in the relationship?
You have a choice to walk away from the behaviors you can’t accept in life, or stay and accept them. In the end, what you really want is closure. Knowing the direction you need to take is a much more powerful place than waiting for something to happen. Lingering is no fun.
Click on the play button above the video to listen to the entire episode or choose to read it below. By the time you’re done, you’ll know if you’ve reached full acceptance of the people in your life, and if you are choosing to suffer or not.
When it comes to accepting what is, or not accepting, one choice leads to suffering and the other does not. [Read more…]
*This episode of The Overwhelmed Brain is no longer available, however if you’d like to hear other episodes on anxiety, click here.
Charlie Hoehn cured himself of anxiety. He reveals how he did it in this extremely important conversation about his battle with anxiety and panic attacks and what he did to get beyond them. [Read more…]