Are You High In Emotional Intelligence?

Being smart without emotions is like a robot. Being emotional without intelligence is like weakness. What about if you have these two altogether? Is this a feeling of bliss?

I always wonder if do I have higher emotional intelligence. They said when you are high in emotional intelligence, you have the ability to express and understand the emotions of others. Probably you have heard a lot about it but you don't pay attention or it is your first time to hear about it. You are in the right page because I'm going to share what emotional intelligence is.

Studies found that having high EQ is more important than having a high IQ in your overall success in life.

Having a high level of emotional intelligence means you have the ability to reason using emotions. The ability to understand different emotions and the ability to manage emotions. One of the best example is when someone showed anger towards you, it doesn't reflect to your mind that they are literally angry because it might be possibly that they are dealing personal problems. Often people who have high EQ are good in the field of psychology. If you are planning to become a psychology one day then you have to consider your EQ levels so that you will know whether it is a suitable profession for you.

In the world we are living in today, people react first before they think. Emotional intelligent people are a good listener and they always have the time to think before they speak a word. The world forgotten that the peace starts once we know how to listen to the side of others.

I personally think that I am an emotional intelligent person. Based on my personality and how I react towards the things around me, it is enough that I can say I have higher EQ. Why would I say that I am?

First of all, I do not like to fight back in any kind of argument. I would just shut up to make the war end. I don't easily get offended and if I do, I do not like to speak about it. Sometimes I can see the whole personality of the person even just by looking at his aura but I do not use that as a judgment towards others.

However there's a downside of this just like everything else. Being emotionally intelligent also means you are too considerate that even someone already crossed the forbidden line, you still give it a chance. One of the things here is that you can be taken for granted for being an understanding person all the time. It's a human nature that if someone is too kind then there's nothing to worry if they would be mean or what. That's quite horrible because your kindness is being treated like a dirt.

Emotional intelligent recognized thoughts as a result of chemical reactions within your brain. Controlling those thoughts will influence the emotions you feel.

This is the truth when we are an overthinker we forgot that most of them are due to the chemical reactions of our brains. So while you can’t always control when and how you experience an emotion, you can learn to control how long you experience that emotion.

"The design of the brain means that we very often have little or no control over when we are swept by emotion, nor what emotion will it be. But we can have some say in how long an emotion will last."- Daniel Goleman

So being an emotional intelligent individual means you know that you are capable of controlling your emotions because our brain can manipulate emotions.

Emotional Intelligence is one of the skills we can develop and improve by time. We focus more on the IQ without thinking that EQ is important too. People who are high in EQ often succeeds in life with better relationships to everyone, the ability to understand emotions and express oneself.

March 5, 2022