Do You See the Opportunities in Your Stress?
Ask yourself, “Do I see the opportunities in my stresses? The SP sees every present moment as an opportunity. What a wonderful stress repellent. The NT, who is typically lost
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Questions Lead Us to the Tools to Manage Stress
In our quest to find helpful tools to manage emotions of stress, our first step is to ask questions of ourselves about our relationship to stress itself. We’ll address some
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Tools for Managing the Emotions of Stress
Stress tests our emotional intelligence (or unintelligence). It acts as a trigger for our emotions and asks, “How are you going to handle this?” Stress is not the problem. How
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Who Is In Charge — Reason or Emotion?
Determining whether to give first place to reason or emotions is tricky at times. Emotions can be right because first impressions, which are their forte, are often right. Reason can
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What Was the Trigger of the Cause of Your Emotion?
Discovering the trigger of the cause of your emotion will help you save yourself from repeating the event. The trigger is not always the cause. Stress can be a trigger,
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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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