Do You Know What Caused the Feeling?
If you are angry, have you lost something? Were you insulted? Did someone challenge you? Do you feel accused or simply worthless? Are you hurt, jealous, envious, revengeful, feeling cheated
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We Need to Name Our Feelings
What is the name for your feeling? It is important that we name our feelings. What we name a feeling determines our perspective and thoughts about that feeling. Calling fear
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How YOU Can Help!
Dear friends, Knowing you have been watching all of the news reports about the Texas Hill Country flood, we just wanted to update you, our friends, as to our situation.
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Identify Your Emotion and Analyze It
As we continue learning about tools for handling our emotions, we move today from awareness to identification. What is the feeling/emotion? Please identify your emotion. Sometimes a detailed analysis is necessary
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Tools for Diagnosing Our Emotions
To find the right tool when diagnosing our emotions and the challenge they present, we need to ask the right questions. We cannot emphasize that principle enough. Asking the wrong
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Help for Creatively Managing Our Emotions
In addition (to knowing our tools), we must learn how to use our tools for building intelligent emotions (emotional intelligence)? It would be laborious to show you all the ways
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Build All Your Mental Tools
Wherever possible, I have chosen to use friendly, open-ended questions that will direct our attention to the root causes of emotional trouble and help us choose the right tool. We
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Tools to Manage Emotions
“Where are my tools?” yelled the frustrated repairman. Such a situation can be critical because without tools we struggle and can be helpless. In fact, tools for mental tasks are just
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The High EQ of the NF
Having examined the high EQ challenges of the SP, SJ, and NT, we now address the EQ challenges of the NF. If you are an NF, you know the challenges
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The High EQ of the Calm NT
Two temperaments down and two to go. To continue, today, let’s look at the calm NT. I say “calm” because that is the NT’s prime emotion and their main emotion
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The SJ’s High EQ
In our previous article, we observed that living in our strengths determines the nature of our emotions (positive if we live in our strengths, and negative if we don’t) and the power
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How to Achieve a High EQ
Living in our strengths determines the nature of our emotions (positive if we live in our strengths, and negative if we don’t) and the power to control our emotions, which comes from
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