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Salaams and Good Morning !
Here is your daily dose of Wisdom for Living Your Best Self!
Although emotions are as old as human beings themselves, it is only fairly recently that the word "emotion" has become of our everyday language.
The word "emotion" comes from Latin and French emovere meaning to "stir up, to move, to agitate". Some scholars would even define the term as "to suffer an emotion", which itself points to the disdain with which emotions have been viewed.
The term emotion was introduced into academic discussion as a catch-all term for passions, sentiments and affections. It was coined in the early 1800s by Thomas Brown and it is around the 1830s that the modern concept of emotion first emerged. "No one felt emotions before about 1830. Instead they felt other things - "passions", "accidents of the soul", "moral sentiments" - and explained them very differently from how we understand emotions today.
Historically, thinkers in the West have contrasted the ‘animal’ passions with calm and "God-like reason". Plato, for example, described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions and so various authorities from the Stoics to Spinoza have gone so far as to advocate apatheia.
Apatheia is a classical virtue which relates to the suppression of feeling, emotion and concern. It is not the same as apathy, by the way, which though it comes from the same
root word, signifies the absence of feeling (as opposed to the suppression of feelings that are present)
This historical privileging of reason over emotion has meant that being emotional has been seen as a character weakness. Today, the emotions are so neglected that most people are oblivious to the deep currents that move them, hold them back, and lead them. It is only very recently that psychologists are beginning to realize the central place of emotion in our lives and have begun studying it.
About time, wouldn’t you say?
Wishing you a day full of positivity, purpose and peace.
Warm blessings
Marzia
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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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