5 Exercises For Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence 🤖

Emotional intelligence is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.

“Whatever goes on in your mind eventually exits your realm of experience as long as you don’t follow it around.”

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

5 Exercises For Emotional Intelligence

The Opposition Thinking Technique 💭

Emotions derive from feelings — if we can correctly manage our feelings, we can avoid the emotions that follow, or learn control them better.

The first step to this technique is to become aware.

• Become aware of the emotions you are feeling.
• Take a minute, take a deep breath and just figure out what exactly you feel. Find out what emotion resonates with your current state.
• Do you feel stressed, anxious, worried? Figure it out.

The second step in this technique is to shift your thoughts to the complete opposite of your current state.

• If you’re feeling frustrated and angry, shift your thoughts to…