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Bust Holiday Stress
The holidays will be here before you know it. Clear the way for greater joy, love and meaning this year by busting these sources of holiday stress: 1. Too much to do in too little time. *This week, set holiday priorities with your family. Discuss...
Do We Really Need God?
The human being is endowed with ability. We have the capacity to do things. However, our ability is inherently limited. The human being is not almighty and so cannot accomplish all things. Because human capability is finite we find that a person...
Grieving Children
While it is my belief that death is just one more experience to seek growth and soul development in our current physical forms, losing a loved one is never easy. Our family has experienced its fair share of grief in the past few years. We’ve lost my...
How to Prevent Suicide
A British weapon’s inspector was found dead in the woods after he slashed his wrist. For the past few weeks, he was entangled with a controversy about the war in Iraq.
On Monday, a Hyundai executive leaped to his death from the 12th floor. He...
Living Together Without Marriage Improves Men’s Mental Health
When a man lives with a woman, without benefit of marriage, it will improve a man’s health, but for women being married, will make them happier.
A study in England of thousands of women and men found that people who went through the good and bad...
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EQ--for the Agony and the Ecstasy
“The Agony and the Ecstasy” is the title of a novel about Michelangelo, by Irving Stone. When I encountered the title in middle school, I decided to read the book to find out what “agony” and “ecstasy” might be like, states of existence apparently available to uber-humans like Michelangelo. I was sure I had not experienced them.
It may have been a misperception, or it may have been a vocabulary problem.
I’m now a grandmother, and I now know what they mean. In fact I have survived both many times.
When we’re experiencing deep, intense emotions is when we feel most alive. It is also when we are most vulnerable and most afraid. When we’re in despair, terror or torture, we want to know if it is going to go on forever. When we are in bliss, we need to know that if it should end, we would be able to survive it.
Managing our emotions is part of emotional intelligence. Managing them, not controlling them. Having such high states of emotion gives us experience in handling them, and the knowledge that we can survive them. It also brings us the understanding that they don’t last. The good news is, no matter how agonizing, it won’t last forever, and the bad news is, no matter how ecstatic, it
won’t last forever.
We also learn about the natural balancing act our brains do. When we have an ecstatic moment, for instance receiving an award, we learn that it’s often followed by a “down” time. Having gone too high, we seek to restabilize by going too low.
Does the converse happen? If you experience a deep grief, you will have carved out a space that can be filled up by happiness or joy.
If you are not willing to experience the agony, you won’t be able to experience the ecstasy.
To increase your emotional intelligence, take a course of get some EQ coaching. It’s when we’re experiencing our emotions that we feel most alive, and our life has the most meaning.
©Susan Dunn, MA, Clinical Psychology, The EQ Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc. Emotional intelligence coaching for individuals to impact every area of your life – career, relationships, life skills, midlife transition. Distance learning and seminars. Ebooks at www.webstrategies.cc/development.htm. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for free ezines. Put “EQ Work” or “EQ Personal” (or both) for subject line.
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