Feelings Archives - Emotional Intelligence for Life

About Excitement

by Miriam Bross | September 27, 2024 | Emotions, Feelings

Excitement is a strong positive emotion. It gives us a boost of energy and inspires fast positive action. Because it is such a strong emotion, many people have learned to tone it down or even suppress it entirely. But excitement is very powerful and once we allow...

About Guilt

by Miriam Bross | September 27, 2024 | EI Basics, Feelings

Guilt is a feeling, meaning we are taught to experience it. Worse, we are trained into keeping ourselves feeling guilty as a form of self-punishment. This dynamic is based on the limiting belief in some societies that we were born to suffer and that mistakes deserve...

About Curiosity

by Miriam Bross | August 30, 2024 | Emotions, Feelings, Habit

Curiosity is the driving force behind our learning. It motivates us to find solutions to problems and invent new creations. To unleash the full potential of our in-built motivation and learning system all we have to do is allow and practice it. Key to learning and...

How To Handle Your Emotions

by Miriam Bross | August 16, 2024 | Emotional Hygiene, Emotions, Feelings

You can handle your emotions – any emotion – with a simple 4-step process. Anyone can learn and practise it in less than ten minutes a day and I’m sharing the how-to with you right now. If you have trouble simply following along, though, I...

About Pity

by Miriam Bross | August 2, 2024 | Emotions, Feelings

Pity is rude. When we pity someone, we judge them and imply that they are unable to take care of themselves. This judgement is either rooted in arrogance or just a reflection of our own limiting beliefs. If you feel pity regularly, you have also turned it into a...

About Control

by Miriam Bross | July 19, 2024 | Behaviour, Emotions, Feelings

Our need to control ourselves and others is a learned response to fear. Emotions trigger chemical chain reactions in our bodies to prepare us for specific actions. When these actions work out, meaning they help us survive or improve our situation, our brain remembers...

How Emotions and Feelings Become Habits

by Miriam Bross | May 10, 2024 | Emotions, Feelings, Habit

You are driving your car and need to change lanes. Do you have to think about signaling, checking the mirrors and maybe changing gear? I bet your movements flow so smoothly you hardly notice them at all. Why? Because after enough repetition the act became automatic....

The Power of EI Skills

by Miriam Bross | February 16, 2024 | EI Basics, EI skills, Emotional Hygiene, Emotions, Feelings, Habit

EI Skills are superpowers. Our emotions influence the decisions we make, what kind of day we are having and even our health. They trigger our actions and can make our lives either easy or very difficult. Have you ever missed out on a fun party because you felt too sad...

About Joy

by Miriam Bross | January 19, 2024 | EI skills, Emotions, Feelings, Habit

Just google “joy” and you’ll find plenty of books, research and even speeches about the subject. But joy is just bite-sized happiness. Why not go for happiness in the first place? Why do some people prefer to aim for joy? Lessons from the past From...

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