Who’s In Charge — Reason or Emotion?
Determining whether to give first place to reason or emotions is tricky at times. Emotions can be right because first impressions, which are their forte, are often right. Reason can
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What Was the Trigger of the Cause of Your Emotion?
Discovering the trigger of the cause of your emotion will help you save yourself from repeating the event. The trigger is not always the cause. Stress can be a trigger,
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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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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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The High EQ of the Calm NT
Two temperaments down and two to go. To continue, today, let’s look at the calm NT. I say “calm” because that is the NT’s prime emotion and their main emotion
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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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We Manipulate Our Emotions
It seems to follow that if our thoughts can passively turn our emotions on, we can also purposefully turn them on by imagining or thinking something that has emotive content.
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Emotions Read Reality or “Perceived” Reality
Emotion’s reality is a relative concept. One person’s reality may be another’s myth when it comes to an emotional response. Our emotions judge whether a remark was a deliberate insult
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