At the clinical level, it has been discovered that the correct emotional expression frees us and brings us several benefits So let’s talk about it!Let’s not let anything be saved. We’ll write, we’ll dance, even if we do it just to clear our minds.
In his emotional intelligence (IE) bestseller, Daniel Goleman explains that a person’s success does not depend on 100% of their IQ or university studies, emotional intelligence has a higher weight.
- IE.
- As Goleman points out.
- Is the ability to recognize one’s own feelings and those of others.
- So that we can manage emotions well and have more productive relationships with those around us.
People who have this ability know how to recognize their emotions and know why they feel them, recognize how their feelings affect their performance, and are able to associate them with their values and goals.
“Emotional intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding and choosing how we think, feel and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our own understanding. It defines how and why we learn; it allows us to set priorities and determines most of our daily actions. Research suggests that it determines at least 80% of the success in our lives. -Joshua Freedman-
It can be said that emotional intelligence has three aspects. On the one hand, it refers to the ability to connect with other people, as well as the ability to regulate individual emotional information; The second part is organizing all the aspects of the personality that contribute to success; finally, it is also used to describe the ability to regulate and manage emotional information (Mayer et al. 2000b).
Generally speaking, the IE refers to the ability to perceive, understand, reason and manage one’s and others’ emotions (Goleman 1998; Mayer et al. 2000b). It also implies the ability to be aware of emotions and how they affect and interact with so-called traditional intelligences.
Specifically, we will focus on the emotional intelligence aspect that corresponds to expression to describe the ability to regulate and manage emotional information. Emotional expression and emotional awareness are skills that bring many benefits and help:
“Let us not forget that small emotions are the great captains of our lives, and we obey them without realizing it. “-Vincent Van Gogh–
Some authors stress the importance of considering that today our society is very concerned about aggression, social conflict and school violence.
Faced with this widespread situation, it is worth considering whether there is an urgent need to create an adequate educational structure to create a society that allows a lower incidence of “emotional fun”.
This requires a better understanding of our emotions and those of others, as well as greater control of personal and social situations, without seeking only objectives of “personal balance”, as proposed by our current educational system, but also goals of “social balance”. (Gutierrez and García Cué, 2015).
Communication and emotional expression are the needs of societies in crisis, if we lack emotional intelligence, every time stress occurs, the brain moves to autopilot and tends to do more, but in a more complicated way, it is certainly not the best focus these days.
According to Peter Salovey, one of the leading pioneers of research on emotional intelligence and health promotion, over the next decade we will see research showing that emotional skills and skills have a lot to do with our performance in different areas.
“Master Socrates, ” You know? Understanding your own feelings at the time they occur is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence?. – Daniel Goleman-