We Need to Name Our Feelings
What is the name for your feeling? It is important that we name our feelings. What we name a feeling determines our perspective and thoughts about that feeling. Calling fear
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How YOU Can Help!
Dear friends, Knowing you have been watching all of the news reports about the Texas Hill Country flood, we just wanted to update you, our friends, as to our situation.
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Identify Your Emotion and Analyze It
As we continue learning about tools for handling our emotions, we move today from awareness to identification. What is the feeling/emotion? Please identify your emotion. Sometimes a detailed analysis is necessary
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Tools for Diagnosing Our Emotions
To find the right tool when diagnosing our emotions and the challenge they present, we need to ask the right questions. We cannot emphasize that principle enough. Asking the wrong
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Help for Creatively Managing Our Emotions
In addition (to knowing our tools), we must learn how to use our tools for building intelligent emotions (emotional intelligence)? It would be laborious to show you all the ways
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Build All Our Mental Tools
Wherever possible, I have chosen to use friendly, open-ended questions that will direct our attention to the root causes of emotional trouble and help us choose the right tool. We
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Tools to Manage Emotions
“Where are my tools?” yelled the frustrated repairman. Such a situation can be critical because without tools we struggle and can be helpless. In fact, tools for mental tasks are just
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The High EQ of the NF
Having examined the high EQ challenges of the SP, SJ, and NT, we now address the EQ challenges of the NF. If you are an NF, you know the challenges
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Two Paths to Emotionally Intelligent Behavior
Management of emotion is accomplished in different ways for different people. Each temperament becomes emotionally intelligent by different methods and applications. This should be obvious by now. However, there are
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Are You Sensitive to Emotional Messages?
If you have an “F” in your profile, then you may have a mind that is sensitive to emotional messages. The presence of an “F” is an indicator that emotions
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Balance Is Not Nature’s Way
Some people think that the goal of emotional intelligence is balance. Keep everything in moderation, they say — your anger, fear, hope, and love (to name a few candidates for
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The Role of Focus
Although the emotions are the powerhouse of the mind, one factor can cause the power center to shift. Focus plays a very strategic role in harnessing the mind’s power. If
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