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Salaams and Good Morning !
Here is your daily dose of Wisdom for Living Your Best Self!
Given that sometimes emotions get the better of us, or even make us miserable, have you ever wondered why are we created with emotions? I mean, if we are to suppress and control them (more on that in the coming days), what’s the purpose anyway?
So here are only a few reasons why human beings need emotions:
1) Emotions help us learn from our memories
When we go experiences in life, these experiences become part of our memory bank. However, when our brain stores experiences, it does just not collect facts. Our brain is designed to also record the feelings that go with these experiences and these feelings help us
to learn from our experiences.
Let’s take a really simple example: if we touch a hot stove, we will experience intense pain. The thought of touching another hot stove in the future will carry with it the memory of that searing pain. Thus our emotional memories from this experience will keep us from getting hurt again.
2) Emotions also help us interpret the feelings of others, which can help in predict their actions.
If we are faced with an angry person, for example, we can judge their emotional state from their body language – clenched fist, loud voice – and protect ourselves accordingly.
Similarly, if we meet someone who is sending loving vibes, our brain will go into approach mode, signal safety, and
we are more likely to befriend them
3) Emotions give us the drive to act.
We need them to react quickly to a situation. If we are faced with someone who is a threat, we need the fear to prepare us to fight or flee. When people with significant mental health issues, take medication to suppress emotions for example, they may also lose the drive to act.
Wishing you a day full of positivity, purpose and peace.
Warm blessings
Marzia
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for a list of recommended books on building your emotional intelligence
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Have you listened to the podcast yet?
Family Connections Podcast
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Dr. Daniel Goleman.
Touching on psychology and neuroscience, the expert on brain and behavioral sciences, Dr. Goleman explains the crucial skills for success offered by emotional intelligence that can determine your success in relationships and work and may impact your overall health.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, and Patrick M. Lencioni.
One of the most famous on this topic, this book is focused more on ways to use EQ to improve your life. You’ll find a step-by-step program for increasing your emotional intelligence that focuses on four core skills: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, along with activities that will help you boost each of these areas.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
The classic on self-growth, this book remains a top seller and go-to for millions around the world. Taking a less conventional approach to the subject, he isn’t focused on emotional intelligence per se, but rather presents a guide for anyone looking to better understand and control their emotions. The seven habits described in his book all require an awareness and control of emotional intelligence while
teaching people how to become more proactive, a big-picture thinker, manage various interaction while building more effective communication.
The Language of Emotional Intelligence: The Five Essential Tools for Building Powerful and Effective Relationships by Jeanne Segal.
A great resource for finding information on using emotional intelligence to build better relationships with just about everyone in your life. Segal lays out a simple step-by-step program on how to use five basic tools of emotional intelligence to enhance your relationships through better communication, reading non-verbal cues, and gaining skills at diffusing arguments and conflicts before they get out of hand.
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