One of the things many of us struggle with is emotional intelligence. The fact that it’s called emotional intelligence means that it’s separate and different from your intellectual intelligence. Someone may be intellectually gifted but still be very dull emotionally. I’ve met brilliant people, got A’s all through school, got and still get academic prizes but emotionally? They are in a rollercoaster at Gold-reef City. To be wholesome you need to have both.
There are many reasons why you must be emotionally balanced. One of them is that in your journey or quest to occupy , you will meet people. People are the main causes or influences in our emotional health. The fact that there are people around you, best believe your emotions will be affected either negatively or positively. Your emotions must be in check. To think that you will never have an emotional reaction to things or life is to plan to exist outside the world. It is only dead people who would not be affected.
We will look at the ways to build emotional maturity as on the photo above throughout the Reflection Fridays. One of the effective ways to regulate emotions is to calm down. Calm down first before sending the message. Cool down before you pick up the call. Cut off any noise or anything that might make you react or respond in a way that might cause a burst in emotions. You have to learn to ignore some people, their messages and their calls. It’s not everything that needs your reaction or response.
If you are the kind of person who always acts on emotions , you will act on impulse. An example would be, in a marriage , you have a conflict with your spouse then you start packing bags. You lack emotional intelligence. A teacher in school says something that offended you, you drop his or her class. People act on anger that would’ve subsided. Listen, even if they broke your heart, you cannot cut their tyres and set their house on fire.
How have you been emotionally? What are some situations that could’ve been avoided if you were not so emotionally unstable? Who are the people you could’ve kept in your life had you not ran to block them? In your home, could your relationship with your siblings been better if you or they could just control their emotions which in turn controls speech! Most emotionally unstable people have the worst speech. They can impulsively call someone a pig or a cow. They can impulsively cuss or swear. They can just punch someone or break furniture. As Christians , we must ask God to help us. We need to be stable emotionally so that we can even deal with one another.
I can tell you for free that some of us here are difficult to love because of the issue of unstable emotions. Some people are the hardest to be friends with, they being so much drama and emotional manipulation that people stay far from them. There are some who cannot keep a relationship because they have the most childish ways of dealing with things. How will you occupy with such emotions?
See you on Monday. I love you 💕
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