Here are six ways in which you can practice emotional intelligence. The first way is to consciously tune into your emotions. When you've been ignoring your emotions for years it can be quite challenging to tune into them. Notice what is happening in your body with each emotion. Is your jaw tight. Is your back sore?

Are your fists clenched? Is your brow furrowed? physical sensations can give clues as to what you're experiencing emotionally. Try scanning your whole body to determine what you're experiencing physically and how this relates to your thinking and what you're feeling. As you practice this, you'll become more skilled at noticing feelings, even some small subtle ones. The next way is to look at layers of feelings.

Frequently when people experience Animation they focus on the most obvious or most intense emotion. For example, in an argument, it's easy to notice that you're angry, but there are other feelings that surround this. Maybe you're feeling scared or anxious or lonely or unloved. These emotions can happen all at the same time. One doesn't cancel the other one out. They actually exist together, creating a rich tapestry of emotion.

So when you're experiencing an intense feeling, ask yourself, what else am I feeling? In an argument you're probably expressing anger as the most intense feeling, but in theory, you can choose to express any of the feelings. focus your energy and attention on one of these feelings versus another. Deliberately select a feeling and work on intensifying it. Tip is to think about how an actor or actress would work to express this feeling. What happens as you practice, you'll find it will be easier to bring one of your feelings to the fore.

It's not about being insincere. It's about choosing one of your feelings as a new starting point. The next way to practice emotional intelligence is to consider being more optimistic, but in a realistic way. When you're caught up in situations that don't seem to be going right, it's easy to become quite pessimistic. This can limit your thinking, especially if your options seem limited. While sometimes it's reasonable and useful to be sad, critical, scared or even helpless and desperate.

You're not likely to solve a problem if you stay in that state. The secret is realistic optimism and the secret to realistic optimism is to allow yourself to feel these feelings and use these to clarify the problem, enabling you to create new options for finding solutions. Acknowledge the seriousness of the problem and consider alternatives from a realistic perspective. What is it that you need to learn, strengthen, or to get some help with so that you can implement these solutions? Are there any people or books or websites or other resources that can help you? practicing this will build the way that you work with optimism and strength in your growth mindset.

In time, you'll find it easier to acknowledge the true nature of the problem and to create solutions to the problem simultaneously. The next way is to ask is this a factual issue or a relationship issue? You'll be able to process factual information in Easily as your brain will have been trained to analyze data at school and at work. Emotional data about the impact on people and relationships is important, but you have to build your skills to consider these. Many people find this difficult and are so focused on being right that they ignore emotional data. Consider everyone involved and make a concerted effort to believe that their views are just as important as yours.

And they could be just as right as you are. This helps to open up new perspectives and to build empathy. The final way builds upon this as you ask yourself, what will create the most value for all of us. With so many demands on you, it's easy to become overwhelmed by competing needs to take a short term focus in the face of others. certainty, look at creating value for everyone by thinking about the problem from a points in the future, say five years from now. By doing this, you will get a longer term view a longer term perspective leading to options that will still matter in five years time focusing your attention and energy on what is most important.

Emotional intelligence can be practiced easily without special equipment or a big financial investment without traveling anywhere or needing a team. You can practice it every day and you can practice it anytime and in any situation.