Emotional Self

Emotion and its Components

 is a positive or negative feeling state
involving physiological arousal, conscious
experience, and expressive behavior.
 An emotion is accompanied by automatic
physiological changes, such as an increase in
your blood pressure and heart rate.

An emotion is created partly by how you

consciously interpret the situation you are in,
and an emotion is often related to specific
expressed behaviors, such as different facial
expressions and body postures.
Emotions and Physiological Arousal
Emotions and Higher-Order
Thinking
 Research indicates that each of the two
hemispheres of the cerebral cortex is
related to one type of emotion more than
another.
 The left hemisphere is associated with more
positive emotions, while the right
hemisphere is associated with more negative
emotions.
 People with more active left hemispheres
tend to be happier than people with more
active right hemispheres.
Communicating Emotions
Nonverbally
 Humans and other animals signal their readiness to
fight, flee, mate, and attend to each other’s needs
through nonverbal expressions.
 Emotions are shown on your face and in your body
language, the different ways you stand or hold
yourself.
 Charles Darwin (1872) observed that specific facial
expressions convey specific emotions in all human
populations around the world. The expressions you
show other people and the expressions you see from
other people are the same facial expressions that
allowed your ancestors to communicate their
emotions to one another.
Can you identify the following
emotions?
Managing Anger
 1. Calm down angry feelings Anger energizes
your body and gets it all fired up for attack. Calm
down your body and your anger by taking slow,
deep breaths, and slowly repeat a calm word or
phrase like “relax,” “calm down,” or “take it easy,”
while continuing to breathe slowly and deeply.You
also could count to 10, or 20, or even 100.
 2. Change the way you think When angry,
your thinking often becomes negative, overly
dramatic, and not very logical. Try replacing these
thoughts with more positive thinking, such as “I’m
mad but it’s not the end of the world, and fuming
is not going to make things better.”
What is Emotional
Intelligence?
 Emotional intelligence is not about
being nice all the time. It is about
being honest.
 Emotional intelligence is not about
being “touchy-feely.” It is about
being aware of your feelings, and
those of others.
 Emotional intelligence is not about
being emotional. It is about being
smart with your emotions.
“We are being judged by a
new yardstick; not just how
smart we are, or by our
training and expertise, but
also how well we handle
ourselves and each other.“
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Working with
Emotional Intelligence
 The Five Essential Competencies of
Emotional Intelligence
• Self-Awareness

• Self-Regulation Relate to Ourselves

• Self-Motivation

• Empathy
Relate to Others
• Effective Relationships