Emotional Intelligence speaks of having self-awareness and the ability to manage responses to emotions clearly from a place of grounded presence and compassion.
By developing emotional intelligence, we have a greater capacity to navigate life‘s challenges and be in the world with other beings without causing so much harm.
Without sufficient emotional intelligence, we are at the whim of life’s ups and downs, riding a roller coaster of grasping at what we like and avoiding or reacting to what we don't like and acting out our unconsciousness unprocessed hurt with everyone we interact with.
Emotional Intelligence involves :
- understanding how we operate internally
- knowing what our needs are and how to meet those needs on our own
- knowing what our expectations are and how to adjust them to meet reality
- knowing what our wounding is and how to attune to and meet that wounding empathically
- knowing how we react and how to manage that reactivity when we are triggered
- having the ability to take a pause before reacting
- knowing how to give space to feelings allowing them to move through
- knowing how to distinguish between thoughts and feelings
- knowing how to meet our fear as a feeling
- knowing how to have compassion for ourselves and others
- knowing how to relate to ourselves and others authentically
- knowing how to stand in our innate power
- knowing how to be vulnerable
- knowing how to be open hearted
- knowing how to connect with ourselves and others
- knowing how to be mindful, etc.
