Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
Most people aren’t taught emotional intelligence in their upbringing. Because of that, there are often lingering negative emotions hanging around in us that might need to be addressed if we’re going to experience a life without the burden of anxiety, depression, and emotional triggers.
Getting out of anxiety and depression is often not an easy task. But I hope to help give you some extra tools for your emotional toolbelt in this article to give you a good start.
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When your top-level values are being met in your relationships, the rest of it usually works out. When they aren’t, you suffer, and the relationship often fails. Every relationship, whether it’s platonic, romantic, or family, contains components that make up what we value.
Trust contains confidence and honesty, whereas distrust contains fear and stress. I talk about that and read a few emails making for a variety show today.
When you are mistreated in some way and made to feel less than dirt, do you accept that you are as you are treated or that you are as you choose to be?
Don’t let other people’s perceptions of you define you. Hold yourself to a certain standard and watch everyone else change or leave. It’s not easy, of course. But it is very useful.
The pain of loss shouldn’t be stuffed down and avoided, it should be felt at the deepest level, but only when you’re ready and only at the pace you can handle. Everyone experiences loss differently so what works for one person may not work for you.
In this episode, I help you connect with the deeper layers underneath the loss so that perhaps there can be some small release or relief. This isn’t about healing, it’s about connecting. And sometimes that’s all that’s needed to start healing.
When the feelings of inadequacy overcome you, do you let them linger in the background? Do you repress them so that they come out in emotionally destructive ways later?
Inadequacy usually has a source. We’ll talk about that and a lot more in this packed episode.
