As I write this, Valentine’s Day approaches in less than one week.  What emotions are you experiencing related to the day?  Good ones?  Bad ones?  In addition to romance, other things evoke them.  Can you imagine eating without having a sense of pleasure or dislike?  Or can you imagine any relationship without emotions?  Whether happy or troubled, they play a large part in every relationship.  Just imagine an art show, perfume, love, hope, a sunset, a funeral, a birth, or a birthday without them.  You can add to this list indefinitely, I think.  Furthermore, language would have little meaning without it.  “My child is a little angel,” or “I love you,” would mean nothing.  Get the picture?  So now, do you love your emotions?

The Can Be Positive As Well As Negative

It goes without saying that there are positive as well as negative emotions (although I just did say it — twice!).  Consider these examples:

• Emotions, like thoughts, can hurt or heal.  And so it follows, they can create war or peace — both internally and externally.
• Emotions give pleasure, create pain, save our skins, and can sell us out in shame.
• Emotions operate under the banner “Have it your way!”  And therein lies both hope and failure.

Love Your Emotions!

We tend to think only of the emotions that give us trouble and of those we can’t control or manage.  But don’t throw the baby (positive emotions) out with the bath water (negative emotions)!  Emotions have great value.

Consider These Facts

Their Impact On Learning

• Emotions play a part in an infant’s learning.  They feel hungry.  Then, they cry.  Consequently, they get fed.  They use emotion to get what they want.  Without emotion we would not learn well.

• Memories are set more strongly in the brain if they have emotional content.  What would recalled memories be like without emotion? Think for a moment about some of your strongest memories.  Do they carry strong emotional impact (whether good or bad)?

• Without emotions, the smartest among us would be dumb.  We would not fear danger, feel safe, or feel anything. And our judgements most often would be wrong.

Their Impact on Decisions and Pleasure

• All decisions are made with the assistance of emotion.

• Emotions give color to life.  Therefore, they make bearable or unbearable an otherwise barren existence.

Intelligence and Health

• EQ is more important to success in life than IQ.

• Denying our emotions the right to speak creates internal stress and does damage that none of us, as yet, can really understand.  

Emotional intelligence is harder to achieve than earning a Ph.D.  So, fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride that may last a lifetime.

Resources to Help You:

Are there such things as intelligent emotions? Intelligently Emotional will argue that there are. And they are the ones we must focus on if we want to know success.

Ray W. Lincoln will show us how understanding the patterns of emotion in our temperament will enable us to manage our emotions effectively. If you long to know how to understand your emotions and the immense power of your feelings, Intelligently Emotional  will show you the way.  The path to real emotional intelligence requires learning to partner with intelligent emotions.

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Our first and most important task in a world-changing mission is to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgence of crooked thinking in our culture and in our world today. If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking, we promote it. Furthermore, if we remain silent, we also give it credence. In Who Am I?, the reader progresses from how we have become “crooked thinkers” to how to break out of this prison of the mind to become instruments of change for a better world.  We do this by recognizing from where we derive our value as humans. “Build a straight and powerful mind.” ~ Ray W. Lincoln