SelfGrowth.com articles for Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Needs: Can Another Person Fulfil Our Emotional Needs?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:00:00 am

When one looks for a relationship, there are emotional needs that one is looking for another person to fulfil within them. These needs can be conscious and known, and they can be unconscious and unknown. And some of these needs will be possible for another person to fulfil and meet and some ...

Emotional intelligence & Emotional Quotient - The Psychological Mantra

madan.tripathy@gmail.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:00 am

Emotional intelligence & Emotional Quotient - The Psychological Mantra ************************************************************************ Madan Mohan Tripathy “Mitti Kahe Kumhaar se, Tu Kyaa rundhe mohi Ek din aisaa aayegaa, main runghungi tuhi” (The clay tells the potter ...

Depression Forum

rychhmo@aol.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 5:08:33 pm

Depression forum.. The statistics say that 25% of us get this awful illness at some time of our life, if we do not then we get seriously affected by it. Those who have it seriously can be totally incapacitated by it and end up ruining their relationships and needing a carer. I have known of ...

Being Obsessive Can Be A Very Good Thing Indeed

Roseanna@roseannaleaton.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 am

Obsessions can be extremely good so long as the object of focus is of a positive nature. It is only when obsessions are negatively focused that they cause real problems. Obsessive tendencies can usually be seen in the most successful of people. Arguably it is their obsessive nature that ...

Dating a Single Parent

rychhmo@aol.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 4:52:39 am

Dating a Single Parent...Whether or not this will work out for you depends on what sort of relationship you seek, what sort of relationship the other person seeks, how many offspring they have, how old they are and how good a parent they are. But most of all it depends very much on why they want ...

Get Over Being Dumped

rychhmo@aol.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 6:13:31 pm

Get over being dumped... When it first happens you are probably upset, shocked, confused, angry, humiliated, bitter and wondering what you could have done differently. But soon those feelings turn to others such as where did I not see this coming? What could I have done to change things? Why ...

What is Emotional Intelligence and Why Should you Care?

sarafletcher88@gmail.com — Tue, 22 May 2012 6:05:42 pm

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a concept familiarized by Daniel Goleman, an internationally known psychologist, which is defined as one’s ability to understand and manage his or her emotions as they happen in themselves and others, while using this awareness to manage relationships effectively. ...

Conflicted Priorities Equal Conflicted Behavior

margaret@margaretmeloni.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:00:00 am

It was 4:45pm and the requirements review meeting had already gone fifteen minutes beyond the scheduled end time. Joe was becoming agitated. He needed to get out the door at 5:00 pm exactly in order to pick up his daughter from soccer practice. The meeting was not showing any signs of wrapping ...

Men who cannot Commit

rychhmo@aol.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00 am

Men who cannot commit can make difficult partners and for the woman who is keen on or needs a totally serious one to one relationship can be described as a waste of time. In my thirty odd years of working as a relationship expert, life coach and agony aunt most of my clients have been women ...

Keeping High Emotional Intelligence for Employees

michaelbraganza4@gmail.com — Mon, 7 May 2012 12:00:00 am

These organisations have invested resources in acquiring the finest of profitable assets - the employees. They also have a plan in place that supports the maintenance of those assets. One way to maintain high Emotional Intelligence for employees is to train Human Resource (HR) Managers and ...

Girl's Forum

rychhmo@aol.com — Sat, 5 May 2012 11:44:28 am

Girl's forum. One of the reasons people are so keen to use computers now is because they enjoy reading and writing. Sometimes it is possible to combine this with making friends and finding out things, getting support and sharing views. We go onto discussion boards and message boards and forums ...

Are you romantic?

rychhmo@aol.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 6:32:18 pm

Are you romantic? It tends to be considered to be old fashioned now to be interested in charm, dating, getting to know someone and to use courtesy and court a lover. Holding hands, sending flowers, sending love letters and many other things can be a sign of living this lifestyle. But are you ...

Family: Are Family A Gift Or A Curse?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

There are some families in the world that are filled with love and connection. These families’ work together, to support and assist each other and not because they have to; but because they want to. To them, family means much more than just a word or the DNA that may connect them to each ...

Women Dating Older Men

rychhmo@aol.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 5:10:20 pm

Women dating older men... Such relationshps are now very popular for all different reasons and fall into different categories. The first division you have is that some are for love and others are for sexual or practical reasons. There is a huge difference between a woman wanting to be with an ...

Religion: Why Are People Attracted To Religion?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

There are numerous religions in the world today; some of these have been around for thousands of years and some could be described as new in comparison. And as well as the religions that are clearly definable as religions, there are also other figures and establishments that are serving a very ...

Action Brings Success

angela.schulzhenke@gmail.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

With the new astrological constellation we are now in the phase of Action, Action and Action. Our head moves a thousand times faster than our feelings. Please cool down and breathe in consciously. We have a lot more sun flares and energy from the deep space. The galaxy and our sun are ...

Comforting the Little Orphan Girl

tina@tinatessina.com — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

When life hands me a very difficult time, and I feel defeated and overwhelmed, I enter a hopeless and helpless state of mind I think of as The Little Orphan girl. This is the way I felt, as a teen, when I lost nearly my whole family, father, aunts and uncles, between the ages of 12 and 18. ...

The Mainstream Media: Where Perspectives Become Truths

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Wed, 9 May 2012 8:32:29 am

One of the challenges I have with the mainstream media, is that what is shown is largely portrayed as the truth. It could be said, that all forms of critical thinking are gradually eroded by exposing ourselves to it. Of course, it could be argued that it is down to the individual to use their ...

Relationships: What Is Our Most Important Relationship?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

During our lives we can have many relationships and some of these relationships can last for what feels like moments and others can seem to last a lifetime. It could be greeting someone we might never see again or embracing someone we will see many times. These relationships can range from a ...

Use Emotional Intelligence and Body Language Training So That You Don’t Suffer Under Your Perfectionist Boss

chelsea.elm@skillsconverged.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

You have been working in a company for a few years. Six months ago you were asked to join a team on a new project. You were assigned a new project manager. Over time you discovered that this new project manager had a very poor view of leadership. Your boss saw his role as a person who should ...

Emotional Balance on the Journey of Life

lucy@freespiritcoaching.co.uk — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

Emotional Balance on the Journey of Life Everyone experiences the ups and downs of living. Whether that's going through a change in career, starting a new business, setting yourself a goal to get fit and healthy, trying to sustain or create positive relationships or just doing your best to ...

WHY KIDS TAKE DRUGS!

Safeneighborhoods@gmail.com — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

George Will’s national editorial, “Should U.S. legalize drugs?” needs discussion. Will states, “20 percent of all prisoners – 500,000 - are incarcerated for dealing illegal drugs, but alcohol causes as much as half of America’s criminal violence and vehicular fatalities.” Interdiction and ...

Healing: How Does Healing Work?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

My current outlook to healing and processing is that, along with the individual's willingness to process their past, the other important element to releasing our patterns is to be assisted by someone who has achieved a certain level of presence. And that the processing (healing) technique alone ...

Fire your client!

mandiecrawford20@hotmail.com — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

What do you mean, fire the client? It seems hard enough to find a client – now you want to fire them? However many people take on just any client because they think that they must - to stay in business. But not every client is the right client. How can there be a wrong client? A good ...

True Self: Why Is It Hard To Reveal Our True Self?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

Revealing who one is to others is not always easy and I believe that this can be due to two reasons. Firstly this can come about through not knowing who one is and secondly through the feeling that it is not safe for one to reveal who one is. Both of these reasons can be the result of ones ...

How to Make Sure you are not Scammed

rychhmo@aol.com — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:12:03 am

How to make sure you are not scammed...We often assume that a thief is someone who comes up to us in the street and offers to sell us something dodgy or they burst through our bedroom window and help themselves to our things when we are out. But scams are a different way to steal from you and ...

Price to pay for academic success

xhow2.com@gmail.com — Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:00:00 am

Price is what you do or give in order to acquire another thing. Virtually, everything in life has a price, nothing is for free. I what to use this ample opportunities to clearly state that even the air we breathe is not for free. The energy you dissipate to free the system is the price you pay ...

Defence Mechanism - Repression

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:26:05 am

Repression, as I see it, is denying a situation of any expression or exposure, until it has gone from our awareness or rarely takes up too much of our attention. This can be brought about in two ways, which depend on the subjective severity of the experience. The first one is by the use of ...

Entitlement Mentality: What Created It?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:25:55 am

In today’s society there is a common mentality and this mentality is often called - The Entitlement Mentality. On the dictionary.com website this is described as: The fact of having a right to something and the amount to which a person has a right. So what this means is that one has the ...

Speed Programming Competition Enhance Your Skills

howtomates@gmail.com — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Speed Programming, most of the members might have not even heard this term particularly people not belonging to Computer Science. I listen it a lot when my brother got admission in Computer Science, indicating he was really fond of programming. At the time of my admission in university, he ...

Top 5 Lessons To Teach Our Children

mslilyponds@gmail.com — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Top 5 Lessons To Teach Our Children With so many parents relying on TV to teach their kids about life, your child is at risk of growing up in a world where straight teeth are more important than the words that pass them. Here's five life lessons that aren't covered on sitcoms and ...

How to avoid Falling in Love with a Married Man

rychhmo@aol.com — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 4:24:56 pm

How to avoid falling in love with a married men... Most women would not want to bother to date a man who is already married to another woman. Either they see it as wrong and would feel guilty because of their morals and what they see is damaging to the wife, or they want the man full time and ...

Defense Mechanism: Dissociation

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:25:32 am

Dissociation is the result of trauma we have experienced in our life. And by dissociating from the intensity of the trauma, we can minimize the suffering caused. With these experiences being subjective in nature and usually extremely overwhelming for the individual, they may however seem ...

The Matrix: What Is The Matrix?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:25:43 am

When the words ‘The Matrix’ are mentioned the first thing that comes to mind is probably the film by the same name. And this was a film that had a profound influence on many people. This was not only because of the quality of the film, but also because of the questions it made people ask and ...

How to Avoid Fake Psychics

rychhmo@aol.com — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 5:31:15 am

How to avoid fake psychics.... Unless you are in "the business" you may find it very difficult and maybe even impossible to avoid these frauds. The mistake most clients or potential clients make is to equate it all with costs in pounds, shillings, dollars and cents only, thinking that so long ...

Achieving Complete Emotional Mastery With The Power Of The Brain

article@chargedaudio.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

The human brain is the epicenter of the entire nervous system in every living individual on planet earth. When properly motivated, your brain can help you achieve complete emotional mastery anytime. The power of the brain cannot be underestimated especially when the brain is well nurtured and ...

How to Deal With Difficult People

trb@talentsmart.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Dealing with difficult people is never easy. You can't do this successfully unless you have and approach that enables you, to control what you can and eliminate that you cannot. You are in control of so much more than you realize when it comes to dealing with difficult people, and your emotional ...

Enlightenment is a Process

marketing@charleneproctor.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Although “enlightenment” means awakening to our God-self within, it is a word with a lot of nuances. It suggests that spirituality is a destination we reach after we achieve a state of spiritual wonder, or a reward for having trekked a specific number of times to Tibet, India, or Rome. It’s a ...

Two Tips to Manage Anger

Martha.Dawson@gmail.com — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Anger is a normal emotion like any other emotion. Human beings are hard wired to experience anger as a means to preserve ourselves. Instinctively anger inspires one to fight, to defend or to take cover as it alerts one to a perceived threat. In this view, we can see how important anger can be in ...

Power: How Do We Give Our Power Away?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:25:04 am

For each one of us power can mean something different. It can have both positive and negative connotations. On the positive side, there is the power to have an effect on one’s life and on the negative side it can mean being controlled. The meaning of power here is; the ability to have an ...

It’s Okay to Disappoint People

mike@mike-robbins.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

How do you feel about disappointing others? How about being disappointed yourself? I’ve recently noticed how much of my conscious and unconscious attention is focused on not disappointing others, while at the same time protecting myself against being disappointed. As I’ve been looking at ...

How to Avoid Being Hustled

feistysmartlady@aol.com — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

How to avoid being hustled. Not one day goes by without someone telling me that they have been conned out of their hard earned money. But when you analyse everything they tell you you can see how it happened. Take this example. A guy I know - who lives alone in a rented room in the worst ...

Humor Affects Our Psyche

carter@innovativesocialdynamics.com — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

Humor and laughter are some of the most enjoyable and powerful emotions that we experience in life. It has the power to bond us together as people, regardless of our differences. Humor is a bonding language that all of us across the world share. While handshakes, hugs, and bows all have ...

Are you a Secure Enough as a Leader to Empower Others?

ahorton@icon.co.za — Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:00:00 am

The most effective way of leading any team is not by trying to do everything yourself, clutching onto every morsel of power your position holds. The best way to lead any team to greatness is to identify leaders within your teams, invest time to build them up into great leaders themselves. Give ...

Emotional Masks: What Is An Emotional Mask?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:16:55 am

The word mask is described as: an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Emotional Mask However, the mask that I am talking about here is an emotional mask. This can effect: how one sees themselves in the mirror; how one believes ...

Skilled Sobriety

tbranston@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:00:00 am

Long-term sobriety requires personal engagement in your recovery. Real engagement goes beyond just attending meetings or calling your sponsor. Engaged recovery requires that you constantly learn new, concrete skills which support long-term sobriety. When I think of concrete skills that support ...

***Your Own Inner Work Affects the Whole World!

margaret@innerbonding.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 9:01:01 pm

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean." - Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat would happen if we each learned to take 100% responsibility for our own feelings and needs - learning to attend to our feelings with compassion for ourselves, and ...

Toxic Shame: What Is Toxic Shame?

ojrc@hotmail.co.uk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:23:52 am

There is said to be two types of shame. One is described as normal and healthy and the other is said to be abnormal and dysfunctional. Healthy Shame This shame is part of having a healthy conscience; with certain behaviours and actions being kept in check by this feeling. And when ones ...

Two Things You Must Do to Have a Blissful and Joy-Filled Marriage!

nkeafam@yahoo.com — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:49:00 pm

Just like it takes two to betroth, there are two things you must do to experience complete happiness and unspeakable joy in your marriage. No matter how you look at it, life is very beautiful and you can only enjoy this kind of life when you know how to. Your marriage can be blissful, if you ...

Instant Gratification Part II: Instants and Ideals

riakhmerov@gmail.com — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:48:58 pm

In the previous article we talked about instant gratification and how it manifested into an epidemic. We also discussed the psyche and how it is affected by things that try to satisfy long-term problems with short-term solutions. Now we'll dive a bit deeper, and examine the two different types ...