Emotionally intelligent

Emotionally intelligent The key skills required to be more Emotionally Intelligent are well reported and well known: we need to be more empathic and compassionate; more aware of how we and others are feelings. Pretty much all the competences and benefits of having a higher Emotional Quotient stem from these few essential life-skills. © Shutterstock.com | ImageFlowThe trouble is, the process of becoming more Emotionally Intelligent is rather a chicken and egg affair: we need to be aware to become more aware! It’s rather like learning to ride a bike: the only way to learn it is to just do it! So what is the EQ equivalent to stabilisers? How can we get a feel for what it’s all about without too much risk of falling off and getting hurt?Be willing to be hurt! Does a baby worry about getting hurt when taking its first faltering steps? Is a lonely person ever going to be anything other than lonely unless and until they open their heart?CONTROL CONQUER YOUR EMOTIONS?There is a common misconception with regard to EI: that it’s about controlling our emotions, holding them back. Yes, sometimes that may be necessary and appropriate, but more usually we need to recognise emotions for what they are.For example: We’ve had a first date, or a first meeting with a potential business partner. We felt it went OK, but we†™re not sure whether to proceed any further. We feel uneasy.Those on a conscious EI path will, at this point, stop what they’re doing. This is vital. Giving ourselves time to reflect is an essential part of the process. How can we hope to improve our EQ unless we put time and focus our attention into it? Whatever skill one is developing, it won’t happen without commitment.TAKE YOUR TIME TO DEVELOP YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCEThere are many ways of teasing out what is going on in our hearts and minds when it comes to becoming more aware. Here are a few that are worth experimenting with: find the ones that work best for you and be prepared to switch between techniques at different time.Go for a walk in nature, stopping to admire clouds, insects, blooms: whatever you see on the walk. Take your time. There’s no rush. Giving our mind something natural and, many would say, wonderful, to reflect on, frees the rational mind. It puts it into neutral and thus allows deeper thoughts and f eelings to surface.After a 20 minute walk you may find that the new partner situation, for example, is now clearer: perhaps remembering how your prospective partner kept interrupting you and wouldn’t let you finish your sentences. Not a good trait or helpful for a harmonious relationship of any sort!Now reflect on a piece of truth that so often comes into the EI journey: that which annoys us in others is often a problem of our own. This is projection, or reflection. Noticing somebody else’s faults is a good first step, but an even more important one is to see and admit ours. So go back to the memory of the meeting. You’re talking. Do you notice that they’re ready to say something and let them into the conversation . . . or ignore it  ..   or not even notice it? Who did most of the talking, you or them? Did discussions flow to and from you freely and easily?By stepping back and answering these questions we are beginning the process of becoming more aware.Understand why emoti onal intelligence is sooo important. KNOW YOUR ONOIONSIt’s a process rather like peeling the skin off an onion. And, like onion peeling, it may bring about a few tears. If you’re serious about becoming more intelligent emotionally, you’ll need to get used to tears! They’re our friends, our indicators: that some emotion that had been stuck is now being released. Have a box of tissues to hand and have a good sob. It will make you feel better.Yes, even if you, like me, were brought up in a household that didn’t do ‘soppy’ stuff. In fact, this is the next layer of the onion peeling: beginning to recognise when and where we took on board our emotional habits. The younger we were at the time, the deeper will be that programmed behaviour and longer it will take to undo it. As you start on the journey, you’ll begin to notice the patterns: you always feel uncomfortable perhaps when you see a child being scolded, or hear a particular song.Such triggers will be very personal to you, so keep a diary and jot down anything that seem to bring on any strong emotion: anger or sadness, depression or despair. Then, when you’ve a few weeks or months’ worth, take your journal someone peaceful and read through it. Look to the trees, birds, river, grasses blowing in the wind: allow your mind to be transported back in time.So often it is not what just happened that is the cause of a strong emotion: that is merely the trigger: of something stuck in our sub-conscious because we didn’t express it at the time (probably for good reason). It’s never too late to have that cry or release your frustrations.Grrrr!And what about the anger? How can we really feel that in a constructive and healthy manner? Good question! We don’t get angry without good reason and knowing that reason is very much part of the EI process. But before we can analyse the reasons clearly, we need to feel it.At this point that peaceful country walk can turn into a sprint. A quiet potter about th e garden can become a rigorous weeding or pruning. Feel the anger. Allow it to express itself and thus be released. Once you’re feeling calmer, you can then ask yourself “what was that all about?” Give yourself time to reflect, allowing deeper insights, more buried memories and feeling to surface.If you live with others, it’s probably a good idea to warn them what you’re doing: make it clear that these are your emotions and not aimed at them. If they’re willing and able to act as a sounding board, to practice active listening with you, even better.But don’t worry if you’ve no-one close who can share these personal, intimate and often intense, journeys. You could find a life-guide, mentor or other therapist to help and support you, but there are others ways.DRAW, PAINT, WRITECreative art is a wonderful ally for the EQ process. But do remember that it is not the intent to produce ‘good’ art. Indeed, the whole point is to be spontaneous, to have no preconceived idea s as to what it is you’re aiming to produce. Which art form you choose is entirely up to you: if you have skills in one, better to choose another (otherwise your inner critic will want to judge and control the process). You may want to:Draw or paint. Tip: try wax crayons. These will immediately take you back to art as a youngster, before any rules or techniques. Spontaneity is the key. Let the picture create itself. This is you sub-conscious finally getting the chance to have its say!But dont worry if you dont have wax crayons, anything will do: basic pencil, ballpoint pen or treat yourself by going to a local store and buying whatever youre drawn to. It is worth remembering that we are all children at heart.Maybe you can try meditative drawing shown in this video. Likewise with creative writing: it doesn’t even matter if what you produce is legible, let along having correct spelling or punctuation. Prose or poem, story or doodle . . . deep inside you will be something that will relish the chance to see the light of day. Let it come. Let it flow. Let it out.If you’re tempted to analyse what you produced, then you may do so, but this is healing art rather than art therapy. The power is in the creation: no need to analyse.CHILDLIKE WONDERBeing emotionally intelligent is the difference between being childish and being childlike. When we are child-like then we are able to be spontaneous, to play, to see the magic and mystery in life: to be creative and allow things to happen, to explore, to wonder. All of which are positive things to be doing and its from these places that we can be creative in our work, in our art, in our relationship and in life generally.Being childish is when we are, let’s be honest here, being a nuisance: when we are just being selfish. For example, doing something just to get attention, when were doing whatever we’re doing in order to be awkward, being demanding.But if we are truly emotionally intelligent then hopefully we have gro wn out of childish tantrums. Because that is what improving our emotional intelligence is all about: growing up emotionally.We should try to live and work more child-like as discussed by Liz Wiseman. So the child that is growing through play is exploring their world; that is, allowing their play world to unfold, thats being childlike. Here, again, is where we can use drama: through storytelling, not just on paper but as an expression: role-play is a particularly powerful and useful thing in emotional intelligence development.This is the sort of thing you might do with a therapist, or fellow EI traveller: you might take the role of your mother or sibling, and somebody else would play you. Exploring a memory or situation from ‘the other’ perspective can be very powerful.ALWAYS THE PARENT OR ADULTAnother powerful technique is to recognise that within us we have many different characters; the many different roles and parts that we play in the course of our day-to-day lives. So, for example, if in our working day we are called upon to be particularly intense in a problem-solving and organising capacity, then our adult self will have been at hard stretch during the working day.Which is why we may feel the need to do something silly of an evening: watching a romcom, for example. But what if we dont know when to stop? What if we are always playing some role to fulfil someone elses expectation?Drama, role-play, playing games are all examples of where arts can really help us to reconnect to the different parts of ourselves. Last but by no means least lets not forget dance. Whether it is by taking waltz or tango classes or going to a nightclub and just bopping. Or perhaps the most intimate and useful emotionally intelligence use of dance is in our own lounge: to put on a bit of music that you’re intuitively drawn to and allow yourselves to express yourselves to it and with it.As with all other uses of arts for emotional intelligence improvement, there are no rules. It is not about creating a good dance or creating a good bit of art. You just need to give yourself permission to be free. To be Free: to dance, as the expression goes, like no-one is watching you.FREEDOM TO BE YOUR REAL SELFThink about it. Emotional intelligence is about being free of our conditioned reactions to things. It is about being free to be spontaneous, to be truly present, in tune with our own body. Once we are at peace with ourselves, there is a much greater chance of being able to tune into other people   and to the unfolding of life.Of course there are other ways of reaching the state of being in tune, of being present. many of you may already be practising some form of mindfulness, meditations that help us with our awareness, with being connected to our true self, with the situation we find ourselves in.Thus to answer the question “how to be more emotionally intelligent?” or “how to become more emotionally intelligent?” (the two questions probably amounting to one and the same) we need to explore these different techniques for becoming more connected, more aware. This is what we will look at now.MINDFULNESS AND HEALINGBecoming more emotionally intelligent is really about reconnecting to our bodies, to our sub-conscious and to who we really are. Some call this deeper aspect of ourselves our inner or higher self, our core essence, soul or spirit.If those ideas make you uncomfortable then we’ve probably uncovered an underlying cause of poor emotional intelligence. How can we be at peace with the world if we are not at peace with ourselves? But who are you? Really? Deep down?It is thus useful to equate the process of growth of emotional intelligence with an emergence of our true self and a deep healing. Most of us are so full of conditioned ideas as to who we are and what we are (such as an Englishman or a painter, ‘sad’ or a prankster) that we spend all our time reacting through these labels: not exactly the natural response of the truly emotionally intelligent!Hence the need to:Reconnect to our real, inner, true selfReconnect to this facet of othersReconnect to the equivalent in the wider world; the ecosystem, the natural world, the seasons, etc…This is why you’ll see mention of eco-intelligence, social intelligence, cultural intelligence and so on. They are not separate nor different to emotional intelligence, just EI applied to particular sorts of relationships. Underlying each of these facets is the deeper intelligence that comes naturally through reconnecting ourselves.IT’S NOT WHAT YOU DO. . .There are numerous ways of doing this. And that’s part of the problem   and of the solution: to not get caught up on the specific method or technique. Getting it right is about choosing an approach that works for you and throwing yourself into the process.Having an intent of relinquishing old ways of thinking and of reuniting different facets of yourself is going to reap far more rewards than religiously pr acticing any particular technique or doing something by rote.EI isn’t about box ticking or following instruction, often it’s the opposite: being willing and able to trust what the ‘still small voice of calm’ inside you is saying.And that is an on-going process and one an increasing number are committing to. Many parallel developments complement the EI/EQ journey: the rise in mindfulness practice for example. Whether you’re drawn to Eastern techniques and ancient wisdom or to the recent more scientific (Westernised) versions of mindfulness, it is the intent that matters. To step back from our emotional reactions and to see them for what they are: thoughts that we don’t need to get attached to.Likewise any meditation technique: the precise method isn’t important: the intent and commitment is. To focus on our breathing or candle flame is to take the focus of our conscious attention away from those thoughts and feelings that would otherwise go around and around inside our heads. By detaching from such thoughts we automatically allow ourselves to reconnect to deeper thoughts and feelings. That helps us both to demonstrate a higher EQ and to improve it: through making us more aware of what disturbs our natural sense of inner calm.But enough talk and theory! I’d like you now to reflect on all I’ve been saying. You could do this, for example, whilst going for a walk in nature or, if that’s not practical, watch the video below, filmed in my local aquarium. Just be with these wonderful sea creatures. Observe them, sense their energy. Avoid any temptation to name, label, describe or judge:Take your time. Whatever you do to reconnect to your real self, take time over it: do it frequently, do it spontaneously. Do it when the emotions start to take over.BUT I’VE TRIED. . .Some of you may be thinking, “but I’ve tried meditating. I’ve tried going for walks. It doesn’t make any difference; I still get wound up by the same old things” Join the cl ub: that’s perfectly normal!Many of our low EQ bad-habits stem back to habits we picked up as kids (such as not liking being told what to do, for example). Such reactions are hard-wired into how we think; it’s unlikely we can change them over-night or even over a few months of awareness.This is a long-term, on-going process. So be gentle with yourself. Forgive yourself. Do that now:Give yourself a hug and say to yourself “I forgive you”. Such a simple thing to do and often extremely powerful.PRACTICE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, ANYWHEREBecause improving our EI is a long-term process and one that can be triggered (by what we see or hear) anytime, anyplace, anywhere, we need an approach that can be applied wherever we happen to be.One such technique is Reiki, or to be more accurate, the Usui System of Reiki Healing, after its founder (about 100 years ago in Japan) Mikao Usui. Often considered as an alternative/complementary therapy, Reiki is far more than that.Wh ilst you can go to your therapist and receive a Reiki treatment, its real value is in self-treatments: after a short course (typically 2 days, but also available on-line now) you can ‘give yourself a Reiki’. What Reiki does, naturally, is to reconnect you to your own intrinsic self-healing, sense-of-self and inner knowing.During a Reiki session our sense of calm is restored and we become aware of a ‘still small voice’ within. To do this amidst the usual clamour of society is a wonderful ability for EI: rather than react to things that annoy us, Reiki helps us to step back from getting even more angry or frustrated.It allows us to see the deeper truth behind a situation, to focus on our own inner healing and thus to connect to those we live and work amongst at a more honest and compassionate level.IN CONCLUSIONI hope, in the article, I’ve taken EI past the theory and brought it into real-life and practical focus. Because EI is about emotions, it often doesn’t help to get all analytical and rational. The only way to learn about your emotional self (and thus EI) is to tap into your real emotions. I hope I’ve enabled this process for you.About the guest authorKeith Beasley is a rare individual: he is both an artist and a scientist. Qualified as both a PhD and a Reiki Master he understands and embraces both the conventional ways in which we learn and the more magical, mystical ways that are equally part of being human.  Keith can be contacted via his website.In 1987, before the phrase become popular, he authored an article on Emotional Quotient (EQ) in the British Mensa magazine. His intent then, as now, is not to categorise or attempt to measure EQ, but to encourage and enable us all to restore a healthy balance between IQ and EQ: head and heart.See here for his summary of what Emotional Intelligence is and why it’s important.

40 Excellent Short Stories For Middle School

posted on May 13, 2014 Middle school is a funny place. Students can be mature and insightful one minute, obtuse and petulant the next. Yet even the most resistant scholar will enjoy a good story. The 40 stories below are sometimes surprising, other times hair-raising. They are all guaranteed to raise questions and instigate discussions in your classroom that can lead to meaningful dialogues about what really matters in the lives of your students. Need a short story fast? Engage your middle school (or high school!) students with these 40 short stories! #shortstories Click To Tweet All Curated Access Pass Just $3 per month (or $36 your first year!) Note: Would you like access to ALL of our curated short story resources — PLUS a free lesson plan template you can use for ANY short story — right here on this page — without having to enter your email address more than a dozen times? For less than the cost of one cup of coffee shop java, you can have ongoing access to current and future curated resources! Let us do the late-night searching for you. Sign up here for instant digital access. Purchased access but still not seeing links to the resources? Make sure you login to your account by clicking the Customer area link at the top of the page and entering the login information you created. Click the â€Å"All Curated Short Story Access Membership† link in your customer area. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury | Short Story Unit | Short Story Unit  on TpT Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas Icarus and Daedalus by Josephine   Preston Peabody Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara Rules of the Game by Amy Tan The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant by W.D. Wetherell To Build a Fire by Jack London The Ransom of Red Chief by O. 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Lawrence (Available in our All Access Membership) Miss Awful by Arthur Cavenaugh (Available in our All Access Membership) Charles by Shirley Jackson (Available in our All Access Membership) The Moustache by Robert Cormier (Available in our All Access Membership) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Available in our All Access Membership) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka* (Available in our All Access Membership) The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (Available in our All Access Membership) The Two Brothers by Leo Tolstoy (Available in our All Access Membership) The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty (Available in our All Access Membership) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (Available in our All Access Membership) The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (Available in our All Access Membership) Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (Available in our All Access Membership) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Third Wish by Joan Aiken (Available in our All Access Membership) The Landlady by Roald Dahl The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov (Available in our All Access Membership) Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling (Available in our All Access Membership) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Thank you, Ma’am by Langston Hughes Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez BONUS! The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry |  Assessment Activity Creative Writing Project | Assessment Activity Creative Writing Project on TpT The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson  |  Assessment Activity Writing Project |  Assessment Activity Writing Project on TpT The Masque of the Red by Death by Edgar Allan Poe* |  Assessment Activity | Assessment  Activity  on TpT The Stone by Lloyd Alexander (Available in our All Access Membership) 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut (Available in our All Access Membership) Note:  An RTE subscriber recently emailed me to ask if there was a simple way to subscribe to all the curated resources in one place, without having to enter an email address for every short story. At the time, there wasn’t, but we have worked out a way to make it easy for you to access all the resources in one place — right here on this page! For just $3 per month, you can have ongoing access to current and future curated resources! Let us do the late-night searching for you. Sign up here for instant digital access. All Curated Access Pass Purchased access but still not seeing links to the resources? Make sure you login to your account by clicking the Customer area link at the top of the page and entering the login information you created. You can then return to this post, or click the â€Å"All Curated Short Story Access Membership† link in your customer area. Once you login, your short story list will look like this. NOTE: Curated resources do not include the units that RTE has developed in house. Copyright notice:  These stories are published on sites other than reThinkELA.com and NO copyrighted stories are excerpted or quoted in RTE-created materials. Some stories are in the public domain (not copyrighted), or are excerpts of larger works, while others are not. In some cases, teachers may print a class set for their own classroom usage, but there are exceptions. Please check with your district regarding its policies and licenses for reproducing printed copies. Generally speaking, you may ask students to download their own copies (outside of the one you download for your own use) to their devices for their own educational studies. Michelle WatersI am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my Master’s of Education in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education, and a NBPTS candidate. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify my students’ voices and choices.

The Basic Facts of Critique on Arguments Essay Samples

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The Brain And Memory Processes Essay - 1316 Words

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The United States And The Civil War - 860 Words

In the 1800s Mexico owned a large portion of North America. This Mexican territory included the current country of Mexico along with, Arizona, Colorado, California, New Mexico, parts of Nevada, and Texas. When the Mexican government allowed American to live in Texas conflicts arose between the settlers and government. The Americans rebelled and stared their own republic and asked to join the United States. After much debate, the Republic of Texas was annexed and shortly after a war broke out between the States and Mexico. After Americans settled in Texas under the Mexican government, rebelled and formed their own republic, the Mexican war started when the territory disputes led a group of Mexican forces to attack American soldiers in the disputed area. The war stretched over two years showcasing the work of upcoming military leaders, such as â€Å"Stonewall† Jackson. After the war , the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settled the current western borders of the states while the Wi lmot Proviso attempted to set up an anti-slavery policy in the newly added lands. In 1824, Mexico decided to let Americans settle in Texas. The Mexican government agreed to give Americans land grants if they became Catholic and learned Spanish ; by 1830 there were about 7,000 Americans in Texas (Keene,325). Soon there proved to be a clash of interest between the new settlers and the Texan Mexicans, called Tejanos. The American s neglected the conditions of their settlement and brought many slaves intoShow MoreRelatedThe Civil War : The United States1622 Words   |  7 PagesThe Civil War divided the United States with its’ origin in the struggle to preserve the Union from the Confederacy’s succession. A war to maintain the United States quickly progressed to battles fought because of the controversial beliefs on slavery in the North and South. 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Making A Good Compensation Plan - 1288 Words

Introduction: Making a good compensation plan will motivate the managers. Bad compensation plan could influence the company’s development and damage the shareholders’ value (GordonKaswin, 2010,p2). The XXX Ltd want to design a compensation plan which can attract and retain the executives needed to achieve and its objective of establishing an industry-leading company with high operational performance and maintain shareholders’ value. The issues addressed in this compensation plan is how to protect shareholders’ value via the compensation contract and compensation plan components: Base salary, cash compensation benefit,. Nevertheless, in order to determine the different portion of the each component, basic salary survey and performance associated with target accomplishment should be guided the payment model selection. Conclusion: XXX LTD establishes a Remuneration Committee, Setting up a specific executive compensation plan for senior managers are necessary. 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Creative Writing 18/04/13 Dear Diary - 904 Words

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