Emotional education can occur at every stage of our lives, for example, we ourselves can learn from it at the same time that we educate our children and share feelings with our family. Teaching emotionally allows us to strengthen our emotional intelligence and ensures that we live healthier relationships.
A person's IQ had long been positioned as the main characteristic for assessing an individual, however, today emotional intelligence has gained a place among human skills to be assessed, such as cognitive intelligence or the ability to adapt.
Daniel Goleman defines this intelligence, according to the specialized page psychology.com, “as a way of understanding cognitive processes beyond logical and rational thinking.” Emotions help us relate to each other with other people and also with our own being. They allow us to understand situations and to move within them by reacting to external stimuli and expressing our feelings appropriately.
According to this author, emotional intelligence has the following principles:
- Emotional self-awareness: It is the ability to understand our own moods.
- emotional self-regulation: It is the ability to control behaviors based on emotional impulses and, in this way, adapt better to social dynamics.
- Motivation: It is the ability to direct our energies towards a goal or objective.
- Empathy: It is the quality of understanding and experiencing the emotional states of other people as one's own.
- Social skills: It is the tendency to always give the most appropriate response to the social demands of the environment.
Acquiring habits that allow us to interact more with other people enables us to act appropriately according to situations that demand a reaction or social participation from us. By relating we can strengthen our emotional responses so that they occur according to a reading that we can make of others, the context and the situation. This will allow us to connect better with other people and react more assertively, as the case may be.
Learning from another person, for example, gives us emotional and understanding elements that allow us, through interaction, to enhance the way we read external expressions and what our most appropriate reaction to them may be. foster early emotional development and taking care of our children will give us research habits, mental and emotional health by sharing with our family. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says:
“Children have, from birth, the fundamental capacity to relate socially. But they can develop this capacity as long as there is someone, the primary caregiver, available to establish this social relationship. Therefore, it can be thought that it is not possible for a baby to develop alone.”
We need other people to learn and through our family or social circle we can share the conscious experience of naming, through dialogue, what we feel to learn to react more appropriately. Expressing ourselves correctly is identifying the moment, the place and the emotional expression of the other to express joy, anger, sadness taking into account also the magnitude that the circumstance allows to express. It says UNICEF:
“Affective regulation can only take place in the context of a relationship with another human being. Physical and emotional contact—cradling, talking, hugging, reassuring— allows the child to establish “calmness in situations of need and learning to regulate one’s emotions on one’s own.”
Emotional intelligence benefits us both in mental health and in all our personal, educational, professional and relational activities in general. “If we want emotionally healthy children, We will start at home, and we will look for schools that promote these values, extracurricular activities that develop their skills and friends that make them grow as people.” Marisa Navarro explains in isanity, specialized health portal.
Social relationships are exchanges of experiences that They give us knowledge, skills and feelings that we learn from other people. In a world where our social relationships are so valuable, Seguros SURA accompanies, trains and advises us to ensure that we live our most important relationships and decisions with emotional intelligence.