BEYOND

EMOTIONAL

INTELLIGENCE

 

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) is the level to which we have cultivated our emotional responses and are able to successfully navigate life’s experiences. It involves overcoming our familial and cultural programming to handle things in mature and appropriate ways, essentially creating new, wiser personal defaults. It is important for us to find ways to achieve emotional intelligence and evolve our wisdom into practical application.

While the discussions in the world about emotional intelligence seem to be most prevalent in corporate environments, emotional intelligence is for everyone, all the time, in every situation of life. We would like to move the discussions about EI beyond its normal dialog and focus to include every facet of life and our beings. Why would we limit this to our corporate interactions when our lives are rich and full of a variety of things that all require our attention, and it would be highly beneficial if those interactions left us satisfied, fulfilled, and at peace.  

The idea that peace is intermingled with emotional intelligence is not usually a part of the emotional intelligence conversation. Yet, when you master the skills wrapped up in emotional intelligence, learn the tools and techniques, and then apply them, the results inevitably deliver to you a deep inner peace. You will realize that you can handle whatever comes your way, which brings you additional confidence and peace, and then this ripples forward  to your mastery of life situations.

Which leads to one of the most important ideas that we need to get our heads around, which is that peace is the best measurement of emotional intelligence.  A person can be highly intelligent and have a low peace IQ, or be emotionally savvy in some areas of life, but can be an emotional mess in other areas of life.

What is your Peace IQ?

• • How at peace are you … in your thoughts, in your emotions, in your skin? 
  • Do you have a level of anxiety that flits around inside of you, that lies dormant until stirred, or eats away at you continually, perhaps raging when certain topics come up? 
  • Do you turn into an emotional wreck when you get put in certain situations, or when you sit back and take a look at where you are in relation to what you want to achieve in life? 
  • Are there areas of your life that are devoid of peace?  
  • How does one organize thoughts about emotions? 
  • How does one navigate emotions in a beneficial way? 
  • Or have you found a way to remain at peace no matter what is coming at you?

These questions and more we will navigate together to reach new levels of inner peace and wellbeing.