What is Emotional Intelligence and how do you improve your own E.I.?

A personal view. This is a blog after all. An opinion.

Feelings are intelligent too. Feelings show up and wait around for about 15 minutes. Feelings also could not match up with your own thoughts. Take the time to look inward and question yourself and your reactions. Good for you it is! Momma says it’s a recipe for good soul food.

Momma was once an emotional wreck. I let others views on me dictate my own view. Why? I didn’t know myself. My own emotions ran amuck because I didn’t even know what my emotions were. That’s right I said I had emotions and not a clue what they were for or how they controlled me.

During my understandings and learnings I have come across the concept of Emotional Intelligence. What is that you ask, glad you did, it’s the ability to manage, understand and use empathy for others while disrupting conflicts as they arise and win the day against daily stresses and challenges. Hurray!!!

By being perceptive and aware enough to tune in to them and become empathetic towards others immediately, is a sign of having self-control, handling situations and being emotionally secure to feel. Feeling is okay, feelings run amok are not. Using feelings to cripple yourself also not okay. Your feelings crippling others, a big no, no, no. No.

It took Momma a lot of inward looking, perceiving and processing of myself to become self-aware in a way that allowed me to self-manage these intelligence traits. All tools and skills that allow one to understand, explain and control personal…