20 Predictions for the Future of EQWritten by Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ Coach
EQ isn’t just a “designer” fad that’s going to fade, and many are interested to see what directions it will take in coming years. Here are some of my predictions:1.Emotional Intelligence will become a household word. Parents will actively teach their children emotional intelligence along with their manners, chores and life skills. Children will learn to accept and welcome their emotions, talk about them, label them correctly, manage them, and choose appropriate responses. 2.Parents will demand inclusion of an EQ program in day care, public and private schools, and universities. They will demand EQ credentials for nannies, childcare providers, youth workers, spiritual leaders, and teachers. 3.We will move beyond diversity to multiculturalism; working and living with people from different backgrounds and cultures. We will therefore have to rely more on universal "language" of emotions to reach commonality and understand what’s going on. We will have to rely more on nonverbal communication. 70-90% of communication even between two people who share a mother language, is nonverbal. 4.One person will ask another person "How are you today?" and instead of not listening to predictable and meaningless response of "fine," they will listen carefully as other person tells them how they are feeling emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The person asked question will know how he or she feels in all these areas and be able to articulate it, and listener will understand information and know how to use it. It will smooth inner world for each of them, and therefore smooth working in outer world. 5.As globalization and rapid exchange of masses of information continues to increase, we reach critical mass, and have to rely on our intuition and nonverbal communication skills. 6.From this massive cultural blending and exchange (culture is learned; not carved in stone) we will extract health-promoting practices and adopt them. We will wipe out what Mother Theresa termed worst disease on earth – “the isolation in West.” People in West will no longer be ashamed to “admit” they “need people”. (And we do not need people to be in same room with us, we need emotional connection with people and healthy interdependence.) We’ll be looking at why wellness statistics in some other countries surpass ours in US and adopting some new customs! 7.The “family” will expand. Proverbs around world tell us that feet go more easily where heart is. Predictions for future are that nearly half of working adults will be both single AND over 40. Businesses will recognize need for a more emotionally intelligent workplace, as un-paired adults working longer hours dominate work scene, who will need more emotional and social connection at office. Corporations will understand benefits of establishing an emotionally intelligent culture in their office. 8.Science and Spirituality Blend. Alliances such as work Dalai Lama has done with brain researchers at University of Wisconsin will be commonplace. Technology will improve and there will be more and better ways to measure and quantify data about emotions and brain. 9.The Left and Right will Also Meet. People will actively work to develop both their left and their right brains, and connection between two. There will be programs for children and adults available in schools, at work, through agencies, coaches, and faith organizations that teach how to do this. 10. Intuition becomes mainstream. Because volume of factual information will be overwhelming, and problems more complex, we will rely more on intuition, an EQ competency. 11.Immune deficiency diseases and stress will continue to increase, so there will be an emphasis on wellness benefits of emotional intelligence. The so-called "negative" emotions weaken our immune system, which is our health. Therefore understanding emotions and emotional self-management is crucial. Treating "emotional" component of a disease or illness will be accepted; it will be norm. Medical care in US will be moving toward Eastern model with its emphasis on prevention. Insurance will cover EQ-type programs. “Stress management” program s will be replaced by EQ Programs. Individuals will be given a discount on their insurance for developing their EQ, just as we are now given a discount on our home insurance for installing a fire alarm, or a discount on our car insurance for taking defensive driving or having air bags. Resilience, an EQ competency is air bag for our stress tolerance.
| | Improve your relationship with moneyWritten by Shrinivas Vaidya
Dear Internet friend. Each human being is an incredible piece of sowtware. Each one of us has been "programmed" in a certain way. This program runs our lives 24 hours a day, and will govern our entire life. But who was programmer? Of course you were not alone in it, it was a "joint venture" between you and society. By society, I mean ,your parents ,friends ,teachers ,colleagues etc. Your program runs every aspect of your life, right from your physical appearance to amount of money you earn. In this article I will discuss how this program affects Your money matters. The part of program which decides Your financial success is called as "Money Consciousness".In a single sentence I would say that "you will earn how much you believe you can earn." This clearly means that you have programmed yourself to earn amount of money you are earning now. There is a code running constantly in your mind which governs your actions when you try to earn money. It is your belief system about whole aspect of money which decides your financial fortune. A person with "poor" money consciousness has an underlying emotion about money and that’s "fear”. Fear of losing money is what governs their financial ability. These people always think that there is never enough money with me, and their mind picks up message, which reflects in outward reality. There is one more major emotion, which drives their mind. They think that earning too much money is bad. or money brings problems with it. So they never think about possibilities money can bring in their lives, and accept a conservative lifestyle. Our mind is like a magnet. It will attract exactly same circumstances and opportunities which are in tune with what we believe to be true. So if a person believes money is bad, his mind will recreate exactly same situations in his real world experience which will reaffirm his belief that "money is bad."
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