Emotional IQ; The Gift With A Price Pt2

In my last entry titled Emotional IQ; The gift with a price. I spoke about Emotional Intelligence and how it's been so effective in my life. I would like to share five ways to quickly improve your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) can be defined as the ability to understand, manage and effectively express one's own feelings as well as  engage and navigate successfully with others.  According to Talent Smart, 90% of high performers at the work place possess high EQ, while 80% of low performers have low EQ. Emotional Intelligence is absolutely essential in the formation, development maintenance, and enhancement of close personal relationships. Unlike IQ, which does not change significantly over a lifetime, our EQ can evolve and increase with our desire to learn and grow.

1. The ability to deal with one's own negative emotions
     "We become what we think about all day long"  -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Perhaps no aspect of EQ is more important than our ability to effectively mange our own negative emotions, so they don't overwhelm us and affect our judgment.  In order to change the way we feel about a situation, we must first change the way we think about it.  Neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen developed an easy to practice exercise call "ANT Therapy-Killing our Automatic Negative Thoughts," which helps us examine the nature of our negative experiences and relate to it in such a way as to reduce our negative emotions. (This link I provided has to be placed in manually  unfortunately it's not available through this video link. Click on link  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGDnL1j7lw  and copy it onto the you tube search for) Dr.Amen(Change your brain; Change your life 7-8) explains A.N.T. Therapy from 01:04 to the end of the clip, and at the very beginning of the next sequence. Please watch it and share with me what you learned from this. video clip. Dr. Amen is very funny as well as informative.  In part three, four, and five of Emotional IQ; the gift with the price I will be sharing the next four tips so please log in.

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