Emotional awareness is the awakening of emotional intelligence: it is this first step where we identify and delimit the fog behind our mood to take control and feel more competent in our lives, we are definitely talking about a skill that we should all develop, a power tool with which we will be better managers of our own emotions.
However, it must be said that this art is not simple, the emotional experience is heterogeneous, unpredictable and sometimes chaotic, we have all found ourselves in a similar position, trapped in a place where all we are aware of is discomfort and, on top of that there is a cost that pays our health for this amalgam of internal sensations that, like invisible spines , break us, boycott us and shade ourselves.
- In fact.
- There are many people who come to the psychologists’ office and who demonstrate their discouragement expressed after the classic phrases of “no one understands me”.
- “it is as if I carry the weight of the world on my back.
- Am I exhausted?””or all I do all day is cry.
- However.
- Behind these expressions.
- There is rarely an obvious emotional consciousness.
- Where one can identify what is behind sadness.
- What is behind this persistent fatigue.
Daniel Goleman himself explains in books how: the practice of emotional intelligence?That taking on an emotionally conscious practice improves our adaptation to the problems and challenges of everyday life. Constant reflection on how we feel and what is behind our mood directly affects our well-being. In addition, it provides us with appropriate strategies to deal with possible depressions and other psychological disorders.
Eskimos have up to 40 different terms to define snow: hail, gray snow, fine snow, compact snow, wind rain-snow . . . Learning these denominations from an early age allows a better adaptation to an environment as difficult and demanding by nature as the one in which they live Now, it is possible that many find it surprising to know something really curious and that, at first glance, has little to do with the Eskimos: up to 250 words have been catalogued to designate different types of emotions and feelings.
How many of us know have you taught us how to use them, as children, at all times so that we can identify and use them?Emotions are not like snow falling from the sky, we know that, they inhabit our interior, but they also cause snowstorms. , they also caught us, caught us and even isolated us. Identifying and naming them will also help us survive better in our environment, just as Eskimo children do when they learn these 40 words by heart to explain how the snow is doing every morning.
So we all need to develop a real emotional awareness, here are some of the reasons for this premise:
One of the best skills we can pass on to our children is the ability to acquire a true emotional consciousness, allow them to reflect on their emotions from an early age, name them and guide them in their favor, because this will probably allow them to be more socially competent, even academically.
To better understand this dimension, we will now delve into the levels that make up it and, in turn, are part of the LEAS (Levels of Emotional Awareness) scale created by psychologists Lane and Schwartz.
Finally, as we see, we are formed and elevated as truly competent people in these strategies who can return directly and positively to our well-being. Emotional awareness is the testimony to orchestrate a happier life, the compass that will lead us to a more fulfilling north. , where we know each other better and have more control over our reality.
Let’s put this into practice
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