Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify our emotions and the motions of others and tow effectively work with them.
"Emotions are the foundation of our success in life" sayd Tom Wood.
Aristotle wrote: "Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.'
Peak oerformers seek to be in the zone - a state where a person is ina state that supports them.
How do we control our emotions in a world full of cliches?
Tom Wood suggests:
1. Recognise the emotion that is controlling you
2. Ask yourself: "When am I going to let go of this emotion?"
The more we contiously are aware of our experiences the more we can gain efective control. The choice of the word control used by tom Wood perhaps is a bit diffeent to meditative awareness, where one simply recognises an emotion, since to try and control our feelings usually only makes them worse. However, the diescision to identify emtions is universally recognised as having profound influence on our experience.
Dave Carey, a POW in North Vietnam for 5 1/2 years, gives an excelent description of how POW's used a sereptitious method to communicate with others from whom they were isolated.
He speaks of the need t do your best, to grow, to keep the faith andto keep a sense of humour.
his example shows that even in hardship we have more control of our circumstances than we often recognise.
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