What is Emotional Intelligence?

To put it simply, emotional intelligence is having the capacity to understand, manage, and regulate our own emotions, as well as understand the emotions of other people.

Our emotions show in every aspect of our lives. In fact, we consciously and unconsciously depend on our emotions in ways you might not have thought of before. For example, our emotions keep us out of danger to maintain our survival. They help you make short-term and long-term decisions, take action or inaction, communicate with others, build relationships, make sense of the world around you, and help others understand you better.

It's clear that our emotions were no mistake. In fact, they were intelligently designed to keep us moving forward. They act as our guides and directional signals to navigate this crazy thing we call life. Although our emotions serve such a purposeful function for humanity, it poses a problem when we are unable to recognize, identify, regulate, communicate, and release them efficiently.

If left unchecked, these emotions can run rampant throughout our mind and our body causing us to feel stuck, lose control, and react to our external stimuli, instead of responding and creating a meaningful solution.