Develop Emotional Intelligence to Live a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Life

Emotional intelligence is one of the most effective abilities to understand not only your emotions but also to recognize the emotions of others. Furthermore, it assists in developing a distinguished personality to live a happy and prosperous life. Presently, behavioral experts, social scientists, and physicians also accept the importance of this practice to improve health as well as to upgrade the standard of performance at work. The criteria of emotional intelligence can be used to improve your life from multiple aspects including, health, personal development, and relationships develop and so on. There are numerous researches revealed that as long as you are emotionally balanced and fit automatically your physical health improves, and ultimately, because of emotional intelligence you bring improvement in your professional performance as well (Brackett, Rivers & Salovey, 2011). However, before applying the important tools of emotional intelligence in your life you need to understand this approach deeply. Basically, in order to provide in-depth guidance regarding emotional intelligence Daniel Goleman represented five important components in his book which are as follows.

11.   Self-awareness

22.    Self-Regulation

33.   Motivation

44.   Empathy

55. Social Skills

Self-awareness

According to Daniel Goleman, Self-awareness is a fundamental and primary requirement to develop emotional intelligence. However, before creating a self-awareness of your emotions you need to conduct a proper assessment of your physical health, emotions, strengths, weaknesses and more. Once you become fully aware of your emotions then tackling emotional issues will be easier such as, depression, anxiety, and worry behavior and so on. Conversely, mental health plays a key role in your overall health because if you are completely fit at the level of mind, it contributes positively to overall physical health. It is a recognized fact that poor emotional health leads to several health issues, and people who do not understand their emotions, they are most likely to face mental and physical health issues. Therefore, in order to bring improvement in physical health and professional performance you need to enhance self-awareness so that you will be able to cope with emotional issues which may occur in your daily life (Cejudo, Rodrigo-Ruiz, López-Delgado & Losada, 2018).

Self-Regulation

Another important characteristic of Emotional intelligence is self-regulation, basically, it refers to self-control and discipline in your personality. In order to obtain success in any field of life, you must have proper control over your emotions, feelings, and behavior, besides it, while dealing with other people you must have skills to an understanding of their psyche. As a result, with the practical application of self-regulation, you can develop self-control that will support in executing your all important responsibilities in a most appropriate and efficient manner. Above all, self-regulation enhances your control over your emotions and by controlling emotions you can tackle every kind of challenging situation of life. Evidently, people who do not have proper control over their emotions they are failed in tackling tragic situations of life, for instance, if your loved one passes away then it can be disastrous for your whole life. In this situation, if you have self-regularizing skills it will support in beating sadness, depression, and anxiety. As a result, this is a highly effective practice to get proper control of your life in your hands (Afolabi & Balogun, 2017).

Motivation

Healthy and successful people always possess a self-motivated behavior, and as long as you are motivated you acquire betterment and progress whether in your health or in your personal and professional life. Even, motivation is an important source of happiness, and by keeping yourself motivated you put enthusiasm, and efforts while delivering any performance or executing any work. Therefore, in order to stay healthy and positive motivation is necessary; however, motivation is acquired through understanding emotions and by developing a positive and hopeful behavior. Above all, the motivation requires burning desire in your mindset, because burning desire leads to motivation which assists in performing appropriately and efficiently. Thus, motivation itself encompasses several elements which must be added to bring control over this emotion because as long as you are motivated you will deliver your best performance in every field of life (Kumar, Vineeth, Mehta, Maheshwari, Nidhi, 2013).

Empathy

The fourth important component of emotional intelligence is “Empathy”. It is an ability to understand the feelings of others and without developing this ability you cannot get competency in emotional intelligence. However, in order to develop this ability, you need practical experience as well as observational skills because this process requires a sense of development to recognize the emotional states of others. By developing this ability you will be an expert in managing relationships, the understanding psyche of others as well as diagnose and treat behavioral problems of people. With the help of this ability, you can improve the performance of your business because you will be able to understand the demand and psyche of consumers. Likewise, it is an effective tool to improve your health as well because once you understand the emotions and psyche of others then you will handle every person in accordance with his or her mindset. As a result, no one will be able to make you sad and you will have the understanding to tackle all kinds of people. Nevertheless, you must have proper awareness of emotions and several kinds of behavior (Abe, Niwa, Fujisaki & Suzuki, 2018).

Social Skills

Daniel Goleman described social skills as an influential component of emotional intelligence. Social skills refer to communication skills and it is one of the imperative requirements to build relationships with others. For instance, you are running a business organization; in this case, you must have social skills because you may have to interact with customers, employees, and others. Thereby, social skills will play a decisive role in building positive relations in your professional settings, whereas, the lack of social skills lead to failure in relationship development. It is a recognized fact that to acquire customers as well as to retain employees, an owner must have effective communication skills. Consequently, social skills refer to the practical implication of emotional intelligence because these skills are an integral part of overall emotional intelligence (Kumar & Devi, 2016).  

Important Associated Points with Emotional Intelligence       

•  Visionary understanding
•    Resiliency development
• Avoidance of Negative Feelings
• A source to live a balanced life
•  An instrument to improve your health and to enhance productivity at work

Poor Emotional Health and its Adverse Effects on Overall life

Poor emotional health is highly detrimental for the overall life, because if you are not aware of your emotions then you are most likely to face depression, anxiety, and worries in your life. A person who has poor emotional health he or she cannot fight with the challenges of personal and professional life. I suggest you that in order to handle all kind of stressful and challenging situations of life, you must have an understanding of your emotions so that you will respond accurately and calmly to overcome those problems of a stressful situation. It is evident that breakups of love relation, death of loved one, challenging responsibilities at work, these all situations bring upsets in life and if you are not aware of your emotions then you may go into depression which produces adverse effects for your mental health. Therefore, you need to obtain proper awareness of emotions as well as a resilient behavior to overcome all problems of life. Consequently, by applying emotional intelligence you will maintain not only better health, but also you will have an ability to handle all kinds of challenging situations of life (Cejudo, Rodrigo-Ruiz, López-Delgado & Losada, 2018).

                                                                          References

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Abe, K., Niwa, M., Fujisaki, K., & Suzuki, Y. (2018). Associations between emotional intelligence, empathy and personality in Japanese medical students. BMC Medical Education, 18(1). doi: 10.1186/s12909-018-1165-7

Brackett, M., Rivers, S., & Salovey, P. (2011). Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Personal, Social, Academic, and Workplace Success. Social And Personality Psychology Compass, 5(1), 88-103. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00334.x

Cejudo, J., Rodrigo-Ruiz, D., López-Delgado, M., & Losada, L. (2018). Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship with Levels of Social Anxiety and Stress in Adolescents. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 15(6), 1073. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061073

Kumar, D., & Devi, S. (2016). EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN RELATION TO OCCUPATIONAL SELF-EFFICACY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. International Journal Of Information Movement, 01(04), 85-103. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308415168_EMOTIONAL_INTELLIGENCE_AND_SOCIAL_SKILLS_IN_RELATION_TO_OCCUPATIONAL_SELF-EFFICACY_OF_SECONDARY_SCHOOL_TEACHERS

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