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Human race has drifted through time maturing and changing on its way. Each century brought its own negative and positive prospects. This century along with many benefits has gifted us many corroding aspects of life, such as stress, anxiety and depression and that too on a very huge scale.

What is emotional development?
We are human beings made up of certain physiology. Environment around us influence our emotions, emotional change bring about chemical changes within us. These changes will work positively for us, if we for example are happy and negatively if we are angry. A developed emotional intelligence will direct us towards a positive course. It is an ability to identify, use, understand and manage your emotions in a very constructive way

Why develop emotional intelligence?
We all have different personalities, different wants and needs, and have different ways of sharing emotions. We influence, inspire, develop and maintain relationships through our emotions.
People with high emotional development are more successful in life – why? Because they know how to deal with themselves and other people. They are sorted out eagerly both in person and professional life. These people usually get what they want, they go through life with ease, influence themselves and others in a very positive way. These people have a grip over there emotional health which include- anxiety, depression, restlessness and stress.

How to develop emotional intelligence

Self-awareness
Emotional intelligence can be developed throughout life. The first step toward emotional development is learning how to communicate with your-self. Once you start communicating with your own emotions you can start reducing stress levels and start building your inner energy level, to deal with life challenges.

Take a pen and a paper draw a column, on one side write what you like about your-self. On the other side write those things which you don’t like about yourself-be honest, re-read your weakness column once again, accept your shortcomings which you have written. IT takes guts to accept your shortcomings, but remember acceptance is the first step towards self- development.

Always be aware of your emotions see how they affect you. Constantly question your-self are you in control of your emotions or are your emotions controlling your thoughts and behavior.
Take one day at a time of your life. Live by the minute. Focus; concentrate in the time frame in which you are living. Think how I will manage this time. Don’t think of yesterday and don’t get worried about tomorrow. Repeat this sentence to yourself, “Between yesterday’s mistakes and tomorrow’s hope, there is a fantastic opportunity called today, live it without any stress”.

The Shamsee style of meditation
To improve understanding of your emotions practice the following meditation. To conduct this meditation you don’t need any supervision of any teacher and it will cost you nothing.

Sit up right you can sit on your bed, sofa or on the floor, just be sure that you are comfortable and are not wearing too tight clothes.

Before starting your meditation make sure you are facing north. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. The north is at a right angle to the west in a clock wise manner. North can also be easily found on the compass.

Close your eyes take a deep breath, feel the air passing through your nose into your lungs, and slowly exhale. Do this three times.

Try to visualize in your mind color sky- blue. Concentrate how color sky-blue looks like, after two minutes open your eyes.

As you open your eyes tell yourself “you are a capable person you can achieve anything”

Self management

Remember there is a difference between knowledge and behavior. If you want change apply your acquired knowledge to your actions.

Take responsibility of your actions. Don’t ignore what you did, or avoid people who have been affected by your actions. People are usually willing to forgive and forget if you make an honest attempt to make things right.

Examine how your actions will affect others. Always thing how would you feel if they did to you, what you are doing to them.ask your self do you want that experience.
Examine your self Do you get upset every time when there is delay or work is not being conducted according to your will?
Never judge yourself and other impulsively, consider all the facts before reaching a judgment.

Social awareness
Value other people’s view, listen to their needs. Try to recognize their emotions too even when they are not obvious. Always excuse yourself from potential explosive situations. Never give decisions immediately, think how I can diffuse this situation. If you can’t help, just leave. Most important defense against anger is a walk- so why are you sitting take a walk. It should be remembered that good achievers are down to earth; they know they have achieved and yet they let others shine too. Never under estimate you capabilities. You will never know how you can change and change other people lives.

Using methods described in the Sedona Method, we’ve been exploring the process of releasing ourselves from emotions that often keep us in a low energy state and interfere with our ability to manifest our true desires. The process is rather simple. You dive into an emotion and explore it, until you feel prepared to release it.

Having released ourselves from apathy, grief, fear and lust, it’s time to tackle anger. Anger tends to stir a strong level of energy and reaction within us. Sometimes it feels intense, and sometimes even explosive. Some personal development ideology suggests that we would be better served by ignoring our anger and immediately thinking about something that feels more positive. This method can be effective, however to truly release the angry feeling…try to dive into it and explore it.

When someone has done something to make us angry, it is easy to focus on the mental image or picture of what that person did, telling the story to ourselves, again and again. We cling more tightly to the emotion of anger and it becomes part of our self identity. We become our feeling.

Anger may manifest in feelings such as:

Annoyance Brooding Disgust Resentment Hostility

By using the Sedona Method, you can not only release the anger, but feel forgiveness towards other people, and even yourself.

One level of emotion up the ladder from anger is pride. Feeling pride may mean desiring to maintain the status quo. We don’t want to change or transform. Our mental images may focus on what we have, what we know. If we are aware of others, we want them to notice how special we are. But pride is often an emotion we use to camouflage our true feelings of inadequacy.

Pride can blind us to our shortcomings, and limit our desire to seek help or support from others. It can be difficult to appreciate those around us.

When we’re in pride we might experience any of the following:

Contempt Stoicism Superiority Smug Judgmental

None of our emotional states need be permanent states. We can release them and experience the freedom that comes from awareness and inner harmony. The more you practice moving through the emotional states, the easier you will find it to release them.

Reflect on when you felt angry or experienced pride. Do the exercise with both the emotions, one at a time, beginning with anger. Ask yourself:

Can I welcome this feeling? Can I let it go? Would I let it go? When?

A speech or appeal without emotion is like a Car without an Engine. People may well like its outlines, but it isn’t going to take them anywhere

Media research reinforces how emotions drive viewing and listening choices in selected audiences in radio and television. Even ‘Hate Radio’, as we know it, gains its audiences by pressing the emotional Hot Buttons of targeted audiences: outrage buttons, disgust buttons, anger buttons, despair buttons, particularly in upper demographics.

Emotional stimulation reinforces a hate radio audience’s pre-existing emotions and may even give them pleasure.

Feelings drive actions: the action media operators are most concerned about (and as a speaker so should you be) is encouraging listeners to commit the act of choice in favour of their products and services – in other words, tune in, and stay tuned in. The same thing applies in presentations to groups – you need your listeners to tune in and stay tuned in if your message is to be heard fully.

The challenge then is to decide the kinds of emotions you wish to evoke in your audiences: emotions which drive listeners to act and choose to listen to you and your message. They don’t have to be negative emotions like fear, hate, jealousy or outrage, although on some occasions they can legitimately be associated with your message.

They can be emotions that are more useful to people’s everyday lives. They can be emotions which stir people to create a better future, generating optimism, hope, humour, strength, control, curiosity, and so on.

So, if people think-feel and then commit the act of choice to listen or not listen to you, what kind of emotions could you stir ethically? Below is an incomplete list that you may like to add to:

curiosity
confidence
exhilaration
enthusiasm
shock
humour
self-control
empowerment
desire hope
expectation
anticipation
titillation
thrill
scepticism
suspense
belonging
sense of knowing
sympathy
empathy
discovery
happiness
joy
material desire (greed?)
status
triumph (winning)
pleasure
concern
motivation
comfort
encouragement
re-assurance
disbelief
courage
passion
certainty

Content is all about positioning. If the content of your message regularly stirs a range of the above emotions, people will associate you with the generally useful emotions evoked. This is what is meant by gaining a ‘Share of Heart’.

By tapping appropriate emotions you can associate pleasure and stimulation with what you’re doing. The linkage of pleasure and stimulation to the experience of listening to your presentation greatly enhances the possibility of your message being taken on board by your audience.

Only Giving Head?

The other part of the thought-feeling dyad is thinking, and the myth that thoughts and feelings can be separated. This myth gives rise to the idea that you can have a discourse, debate or just a plan old conversation and not feel anything at all.

Much of the rhetoric in which many speakers engage, particularly professionals and politicians, is based on the spurious notion that you can separate thoughts from feeling. This reveals itself in interesting ways:

” ‘Hard heads’ who suppress the music and emotion of their voices believing it gives them “credibility” and “balance”.

” Stories told in abstract language, which removes the ‘life’ from the story.

” Real serious discourses with ‘analysis’, but without real life examples in which to embed an audience’s experience.

” Speakers sounding as if they have the world on their shoulders and every word uttered must be spoken with gravity.

” Presenters with personal phobias that reflect a fear of so-called trivialisation.

” Discourse using language that removes the speakers or moderator from the ‘dirty world’ of human emotions.

” Conversations conducted in ‘surface rhetoric’, such as econo-speak, pollie-speak, or in-house shorthand.

You might be interested to know that the pre-scientific notion of separating thoughts from emotions was revived and championed by a philosopher called Descartes, who lived a couple of hundred years ago. The notion had been around since biblical times, but he picked it up and ran with it. He proclaimed that somewhere, he wasn’t quite sure where, there existed absolute ‘truth’. His method of finding that somewhere was to somehow lapse into “pure rationality”, take a “a God’s Eye view”, in the hope that all would be revealed. He failed.

In many ways, the assumption that there is such a thing as objectivity, pure rationality, non-bias or dispassion still governs much of the practice of so-called rational debate and discourse.

Rational debate, by its very rules, demands that you separate thoughts from feelings and engage in “unfeeling” dialogue. This happens in some pockets of academia as well as business and the media. Interestingly, modern psychology has a name for people who have stopped feeling for others, or can’t think-feel in the concrete realm any more. They’re called sociopaths.

(c) Desmond Guilfoyle 2006

Due to the wrong beliefs about how acupuncture works, many people develop wrong preconceived notion about it. Acupuncture treatment appears mysterious to most people who question the legitimacy of acupuncture as a healing practice. To be discussed by this article are three mistaken beliefs about acupuncture:

Needles play the most important role in acupuncture theory.

Most people regard the needles used in acupuncture treatment as the most important aspect of acupuncture. This belief is not true. Acupuncture theory involves a lot of things and the needles is just part of the treatment. There are other things that need to be considered in acupuncture treatment including qi flow, acupoints, and meridians. For an acupuncture treatment to take place, several factors play important functions in the healing process.

There is no connection between emotion and the physical.

In modern medical practice, emotion is separated from the physical ills of the body. In acupuncture theory, acupuncturists consider several external factors that influence qi flow in the body which make it different compared with modern medical methods. Acupuncture experts cite various factors that affect the flow of qi in the body including the needles, lifestyle of the patient, and his or her emotions.

Medicine is not needed in acupuncture.

There are some cases in which medicine is needed in acupuncture but these medicines are purely herbal and can help in balancing or controlling the flow of qi in your body. The use of herbal medicines supports the stand of acupuncture on non-invasive healing. These medicines can help you go out and achieve better results in your acupuncture treatment.

The information discussed above will help clear your minds about acupuncture theory. If your friends have questions about acupuncture treatment, you could use the information above to address their doubts on the topic.

Yoga is the name given to the science or method of training, which is followed by spiritual aspirants. It has existed for thousands of years and is still revered in India and in Indian culture where the knowledge has been carefully preserved through a sacred traditional, unbroken channel between teacher and pupil. The system offers both health and spiritual understanding through the rewards of self-discipline and through the individual’s direct inner experiences or realizations.

The practitioner of Yoga is known as a “yogi” or sometimes in the feminine case, “yogini” and is a term of reverence for one who not only follows the practical techniques and embraces the yogic philosophy but is a title bestowed upon one who represents the spiritual quality essential in the ideal human character.

Yoga was once always practised in the traditional manner either within the home or ashram or in a place of natural beauty near water or stream, to enjoy quietude and shelter and to allow the student to feel in touch with nature. Earnest pupils had few or no possessions, or placed little value on material goods and were expected to follow the traditional austerities and the prevailing attitude of self-sacrifice. Renunciation was a part of their training. Serious aspirants were prepared to leave family, friends, material comforts and to accept the simple life in order to find answers to their spiritual needs.

However, in a different process, the general knowledge of Yoga has now become common knowledge throughout in the more materialistic western world where it is proving to be used as a popular aid in several areas of self culture – physical, psychological and spiritual.

The most well known and popular yogic path in modern times is Hatha Yoga. This demands self control over the body, physical cultivation of strength and flexibility through exercise and development of a fine degree of health and stamina through personal efforts in self discipline. In the process of applying the traditional physical disciplines involving nutrition, exercise, breathing exercises, postural controls and relaxation the yogi comes to better health and to understand his body.

The same may be said with Bhakta Yoga, which demands self-control over the emotions, the cultivation of contentment, love and peace and the rejection of emotional habits that produce stress. In the process of applying the entailing disciplines involved in gaining emotional control and cultivating positive moods, the yogi not only comes to better understand his feelings, but begins to find increased happiness and well-being.

Through Raja Yoga, disciplines centre upon the individual’s thoughts as he learns to assume greater awareness and conscious control over his thoughts, to cultivate his mental faculties and natural talents and to still the turbulence of transitory thoughts and impressions. This last provides the appropriate state of calm in which he can find inner peace and enjoy the climate in which creative thought can flourish. And even more importantly, then his mind is capable of reflecting thoughts beyond his usual limitations to experience what we call inspiration.

Throughout the training of a yogi, the factor, which is all-important, is that he holds his personal self image clear and strong so that he can direct his personal growth towards his own concept of the human ideal. He aspires to perfect himself in all ways and knows that this undertaking is difficult, long but extremely rewarding as he realises his personal responsibility in directing his life and his future.

By the teachings of Karma Yoga, the path of right action, all that is acquired by the yogi becomes integrated in his nature and directed towards positive outcomes in his life of action. towards better health, loving relationships, greater knowledge and skills. His capacity to help others increases accordingly. No reward, whether of better health, joy, knowledge or inspirational thought is for his own possession alone but is seen as an energy over which he has responsibility to utilize in the practical world and in his association with others around him,

The over-riding general realization which is experienced by those who practise yoga is that behind all life’s diversity is an integral unit and brotherhood of being in which all living creatures and kingdoms, although seemingly separate, are in essence interdependent not only in order to be life-sustaining but in order that life on our beautiful planet may progress towards the ‘better world’ of which mankind dreams.

So the practice of meditation assumes a prominent role in allowing conscious experiencing of the subtler worlds beyond the obvious material one – the world of emotions, abstract thought and the soul and spirit worlds beyond. Meditation, brings the yogi ever nearer to that higher consciousness, that illuminates his being and in stages allows his expansion of consciousness to comprehend something of the vast cosmic life of which we are a part.

The ultimate experience of Yoga equates with what is called ‘the mystical marriage’ of the Christian – or the ecstatic blending of individual with the supernal in an uplifted state evidencing beyond all doubt, the fact that in essence all life is one.

Stock trading is a very big game that millions of investors play. As the outcome of every game, some people wins and some losses this game. But the one who loses in this game usually gets emotional and ultimately it affects his health. People who are expert in this game know the rules well and therefore they constantly make money in the share market trading. They follow a simple rule that takes them to success. The stock tip says, “Make decisions on buying or selling stocks without being influenced by fear or greed factor”. Generally, emotions like “greed” of making huge money and “fear” of losing money are exhibited by the masses that trade in the stock market.

Experts and stock brokers reveal that emotions have no place in the share market trading. Experience and constant analysis of the share market trends has made them the investing experts. People investing in the stocks usually get stuck with the emotions and start running after the stocks which are rising on the share market charts. It is obvious that you may display the same behavior, but there may be several factors involved in the instant rise in the stock price. In fact, many times, it is a planned game of the stock brokers that affect the stock with their moves.

Emotions are so strong that they make our rationale and logical thinking handicapped and as a result emotions take control over our decisions. Emotions take us to the wrong track and therefore, we invest in the wrong stock without even giving a single thought on it. That is how people sometimes loose sound stock investment opportunities, just because of the emotions. Experts call the emotions, the evils of the share market trading. Investors who are able to quite their emotional urges works well in the share market trading and this helps them taking the right decisions at the right time.

You can also start exercising the control on your emotions and gradually this will help you to trade well after giving a strong thought on your investment decision. Once you learn to control your emotions and keep them out of the share market trading, you will realize that you are playing a smart and safe game that will lead you nowhere else, but to your ultimate destination, i.e. the success. You will start analyzing the market trends and will stick to your own trading strategy even if others give you stock tips to switchover or if your stock price started going down.

But controlling emotions is not easy in fact it is sometime unrecognizable. The key to control the emotions is, to start recognizing it. To do this, you can start keeping a record of the behavior that you exhibit in the situations when your stock price goes up or when the stock market crashes. You must do this exercise honestly to recognize the evil emotions. Keeping a track of both situations i.e. rise in stock and dip in stock and your related reaction is very important. This will help you to check both your bad and good emotions.

There are also several trading tools available on the Internet that allows you to practice the online stock trading like the experts. Such tools assist you in taking emotion free decision while trading stocks. These online trading platforms are developed to trade without taking risks. They help you in choosing the right stocks by analyzing the current trends of the stock market. They are capable of reading the share market charts and can tell you expected pattern of the stock. The most important part is that these tools have no place for emotions.