During the day there are many times that you might be gripped by emotions, often without noticing it.Rushing to the car, anxious about being late and frustrated with trafficIrritated with a computer that doesn't start soon enough, rejected when colleagues are not friendly or guilty about beingWhen the morning is...
Myth #1 - Emotions are useless Most recently, scientists mapped out our brain evolution and they found that our limbic system (responsible for emotions) - is significantly older than our neocortex (responsible for thinking). The limbic system is thought to have evolved about 250 million years ago, at the back...
5 Stages of Emotional Turmoil and How to Know When to Seek Help My friend recently got caught up in a difficult situation at work. He is accused of something he didn’t do, but he can’t do anything about it because the matter is sensitive, with potential legal ramifications. The...
5 tips to start transforming your behavior #eq #emotionalintelligence #transform #behaviors ‘Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.’ The first time I heard this quote, often mistakenly attributed to Viktor Frankl,...
Top Question #1. How to deal with negative (insert ‘toxic’, ‘bull’, ‘aggressive’, ‘narcissist’, ‘abuser’) people in my life? A close second - ‘How can I change my partner's (insert ‘boss's, ‘colleagues, ‘mother's, ‘father’s, mother-in-law's) behavior? In this video, I talked about the number one mistake that people do when starting...
Few tools are as valuable to master our emotions as a meditation practice. And yet so many consider it as not ‘their cup of tea’ and resent the seemingly sudden explosion of meditation and mindfulness practices everywhere. I too resisted the notion that all answers to your inner world seem to...
This might sound familiar. You come to work, make yourself comfortable, and ready to kick off, but the colleague that sits close to you just grunts. Your ‘hello’ get’s a barked ‘hello’, but a 'how are you', triggers a snap ‘fine’. You think to yourself - ‘somebody is in a...
A project planning meeting was going for more than an hour when Annie - one of the project team members - started crying. There were a lot of puzzled looks around. Are you ok? - The Chair of the meeting asked. But Annie couldn’t muster her answer between her sobs....
You think I am overpromising. I probably underpromise. Research around emotions is compiling and it's more robust and converging by day. Many findings show that a handful of negative emotions cause most of our daily troubles. In a similar fashion, a few positive emotions cause our best experiences and give...
If I only had one word to describe the last few months, it would be emotional. I was sad. I had to cancel my vacation to see the family. I got scared. I went to the shop and saw the same fear in everyone’s eyes. I was anxious. I felt...
