EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

A few days back, when I am just searching over internet. I came across a word called “Emotional Intelligence”. I am so fascinated by this word. When I searched his meaning over Google, I came to know that this word has a very vast meaning. So, In this blog, I am just writing my personal opinion about emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your emotions in a positive manner to relieve stress, communicate effectively and overcome challenges and defuse conflict with other people. Emotional Intelligence helps you to build a stronger relationship, which helps you to achieve your career and personal goals. It also involves the perception of the other, when you understand how they are going to feel. It is a proven fact that people with high emotional intelligence, are usually successful in most things because they know what they want from others.

For example: When people with high emotional intelligence send an email to some person, they will get a reply from another end because they make other people feel good and comfortable.

Emotional Intelligence affects

1. It enhances your performance at work.People with high emotional intelligence understand the other person , they will make him comfortable with himself,shows a high communication with other person.
2. Your Physical Health,if you are able to control your stress,it will definitely help you build a stronger physical personality
3. By controlling your emotions and stress, you are able to enhance your mental health and able to reduce thee mental pressure and able to attain a better and relaxed mental state.
4. Your social network,by understanding your emotion and know how to control them,you are able to feel better and understand other well which helps you to grow your social network.

The key skills for building your emotional intelligence is

1. Self-management: Emotions are important pieces of information that tell you about yourself and others, but in the face of stress that takes us out of our comfort zone, we can become overwhelmed and lose control of ourselves. With the ability to manage stress and stay emotionally present, you can learn to receive upsetting information without letting it override your thoughts and self-control. You’ll be able to make choices that allow you to control impulsive feelings and behaviors, manage your emotions in healthy ways, take initiative, follow through on commitments, and adapt to changing circumstances.

2. Self-awareness :Your ability to manage core feelings such as anger, sadness, fear, and joy often depends on the quality and consistency of your early life emotional experiences. If your primary caretaker as an infant understood and valued your emotions, it’s likely your emotions have become valuable assets in adult life. But, if your emotional experiences as an infant were confusing, threatening or painful, it’s likely you’ve tried to distance yourself from your emotions.

3. Social-awareness : To build social awareness, you need to recognize the importance of mindfulness in the social process. After all, you can’t pick up on subtle nonverbal cues when you’re in your own head, thinking about other things, or simply zoning out on your phone. Social awareness requires your presence in the moment. While many of us pride ourselves on an ability to multitask, this means that you’ll miss the subtle emotional shifts taking place in other people that help you fully understand them.

How to improve emotional intelligence.

They are some keys point to understand on how to improve the emotional intelligence of a person

1. observe how to react to other person
2. look at your work space
3. Do a self evulation
4. Examine how you react to most stressful situation
5. Take responsibility of the your decision.
6. Examine how to actions are going to affect other person.

I think, this is enough about emotional intelligence.