Psychology: "The Importance of Emotional Intelligence"

"The Importance of Emotional Intelligence"

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"The Importance of Emotional Intelligence"

- by Akasha Lonsdale

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For centuries, emphasis has been placed on academic learning, qualifications and how intelligent a person was, ie: their IQ. Anything emotional was encouraged to stay hidden behind repparttar 126080 “stiff upper lip” rather than being acknowledged and expressed. Attending “the school of hard knocks” was character forming. When employee training was introduced in repparttar 126081 business world, repparttar 126082 programmes focused on areas relating to reason and logic – anything to do with interpersonal relationships was wishy-washy and classed as soft skills.

However all this is changing and not before time. The advances in neuroscience and brain imaging techniques have enabled scientists to confirm what we all suspected – that when we are confronted by situations that are life threatening or that we “perceive” are so, reason and logic fly out repparttar 126083 window and what emerges is a primitive, ready- to-fight Neanderthal in modern day attire. The section of repparttar 126084 brain responsible for this instant bypass is repparttar 126085 amygdala, hence repparttar 126086 new term “the amygdala hijack”.

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"Love & Fear Are Two Sides of The Same Coin"

Written by Perry Akasha Lonsdale

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"Love & Fear Are Two Sides of The Same Coin"

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LOVE = EXPANSION FEAR = CONTRACTION

"What repparttar 126079 world needs now is love, sweet love...that’s repparttar 126080 only thing that there’s just too little of...". These are repparttar 126081 opening lines of a great song and it’s true. What repparttar 126082 world needs now is love in its broadest sense because when fear, hatred, desire for revenge, intolerance and anger are present – Love is missing. Fear and Love are opposites. Fear is contraction of repparttar 126083 heart (not great for physical wellbeing!). With fear, possibilities are fewer and life can feel very narrow and restrictive.

LOVE Love holds hands with Courage to overcome Fear.

Love is at repparttar 126084 core of our being. We don’t have to find it – it is and always has been within us, tucked in repparttar 126085 inner recesses of our Being. Sometimes repparttar 126086 journey to “re- discover” it, can seem a long one and yet there are moments when we glimpse it totally and may not even recognise it. For example:

- Beautiful images "that lift our spirits" - The birth of a baby - Children really laughing - Strength in adversity - Being with a loved one at a special moment - A beautiful starlit sky - The unconditional generosity of another - And many more... Love is not soft and soppy. The love I refer to embraces Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Open-ness, Being Real, Truth, Courage, Authenticity, Joy, Generosity, Laughter, Stillness, Freedom, Clarity, Willingness, Sharing, Compassion, Empathy, Compassion ...and Tolerance.

It is a felt sense – repparttar 126087 sense of expansion – when repparttar 126088 heart feels full. When love is present, tenderness and strength co-exist. People may be moved to tears by its power but tears can be of joy and relief too. We may feel vulnerable but this is repparttar 126089 paradox:

VULNERABILITY IS TRUE STRENGTH.

How can that be? Because when we are vulnerable, we are open, exposed, REAL. We are in repparttar 126090 flow of repparttar 126091 river of life, not swimming against it. We surrender, we fall into ourselves and within we find repparttar 126092 Love that is there – has always been there – repparttar 126093 eternally burning light. The light that is. The light that will never go out – no matter how dark life sometimes gets. It is said that repparttar 126094 “darkest hour is just before dawn” – many times though, great insights and change come after a “dark night of repparttar 126095 soul”. DRAMA AND TRAUMA It is as if we create repparttar 126096 drama’s and trauma’s in life to challenge us to look within and begin taking us back to that place we know. A time of “re-membering”, “re-joicing”. The parting of repparttar 126097 70,000 veils – to reveal repparttar 126098 inner treasure – LOVE. No judgements, no criticisms, no anger, no bitterness, no recriminations. Just Love, all embracing, all encompassing, all knowing, never-ending Love. Love that cradles us like a parent with a new born child. Love that holds us in our pain. Love that sometimes creates repparttar 126099 pain so that we may grow. Love that wraps around us like a beautiful cloak.

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