Emotional Intelligence - Your Emotion Brain
Emotionally mature people, with the ability to recognize and manage their own emotional state, are able to keep their feelings in check and stick with the plan when, inevitably, setbacks arise. In addition to being icy-cool in a crisis, they’re also able to recognize and accommodate the feelings of other people and, as a result, build strong relationships. A high level of emotional intelligence is vital in leaders and those aspiring to lead.
In this series of articles I teach you a ridiculously simple—but unexpected and counterintuitive—way to manage your feelings and enhance your emotional intelligence. Don’t allow your enjoyment to be chewed up by chronic anxiety, guilt or repeated bouts of unnecessary rage.
The Emotion Brain - Left Brain / Right Brain Myth
You have two brains inside your head. One of them is a bullying, delusional dictator who rants at your unconscious and screams absolute demands at the world. To tame this part of your brain, you need to start thinking about your emotions in a whole new way: The Emotion Brain - The Left Brain / Right Brain Myth
The Emotion Brain - Scream
To manage overly emotional states (such as anxiety, anger and guilt) it’s vital you appreciate the raw power of your Emotion Brain. It’s a super-sensitive early warning system which (in response to a perceived threat) will fill your head with buzzing mental static, create overly emotional states and drive self-defeating behaviors. Read this article so you don’t become part of the problem you’re trying to solve: The Emotion Brain – Scream
The Emotion Brain - "Fight Or Flight" Revisited
By far the largest group of people who need emotional control techniques aren’t prone to flying off the handle and have never shouted at anyone in public. Here’s a new look at an old idea—The fight or flight response: The Emotion Brain - "Fight Or Flight" Revisited
The Emotion Brain - I’m A Jerk Reflex
It’s an almost universally held misconception for people to believe that their overly emotional states (like fear, anger and guilt) are caused by other people and situations. Here’s the truth: Emotion Brain – Part Four A and Emotion Brain – Part Four B
The Emotion Brain - Toxic Stories
The stories you tell yourself about (even genuinely unpleasant) situations can trigger, amplify and prolong an overly emotional responses. Some stories can make you more angry than is helpful for resolving the situation. Other stories can leave you feeling anxious or guilty. You can, quite literally, talk yourself into a state of intense agitation or anger. And in your distressed state, fearful or furious, your worst fears become self fulfilling prophecies: Emotion Brain – Part Five
The Emotion Brain - Triple-R Strategies
Any time you’re feeling (in any way) threatened, you need a simple, step-by-step system that—at a time when everything else is trying to drown out your reason—focuses you on couple of important things. Here’s a brief outline of the very simple, mega-effective Perspective PowerTM approach to diluting toxic emotions: The Emotion Brain – Triple-R Strategies
