It has often been perceived that our emotions do not influence our success and some believe that our emotions may negatively affect our making of decisions and hence cause personal failure.

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence is the ability to become sensitive to understanding your own emotions and the emotions that you observe from others. This in the end will be consciously monitored to serve as determining factors in creating decisions and in putting up reactions to various stimuli.

Since we are dealing with the various aspects of emotions, it is pretty obvious that there is no gray line between emotions and emotional intelligence. Emotions affect decision-making, your reactions to things, moods, sentiments and your general disposition in a given situation. Sometimes, solutions do not come from the intellect. Too much thinking may even cause paralysis of the mind. This is largely due to the fact that when we think too much for a solution, our minds seem to clutter with answers that point to nowhere, but to the beginning. Analysis takes time and when it does, it may allow time for the aggravation of problems.

It is not to discourage anyone from analyzing personal problems clearly. There is more to intelligence than using your cranial capacities in creating decisions. At birth you begin to be affected by various stimulus, and these stimuli must be written before you ever find the concept of reactions to emotions. Only as you age and therefore exposed to spectrum’s of experiences do you learn to react with the different types of emotions.

This is probably the reason why as children, you would have had no fear or anxiety over doing something dangerous. You would not have had any idea what fear or anxiety or any other dangerous experiences were.

Knowing the degree of your emotions and the various reactions that are created occur during specific conditions and having enough knowledge of determining how well you can cope with any given stimulation. Knowing what are the factors that create the rise of certain emotions in you will be helpful in gaining new insights of yourself.

Emotions are inevitable parts of our existence and experts in this field have learned to evaluate emotional intelligence by determining its five domains. They are:

1. Management of Emotions
This generally covers the ability to handle one’s emotions to fit a given condition. This also entails the proper mixture of emotions and the realization of what caused a specific reaction to arise.

2. Self-awareness
This is different from self criticism mainly in the manner by which specific emotions are determined. It is the systematic observance of oneself to recognize feelings and moods as they happen.

3. Self Motivation
This is evident in delayed gratification, in positive use of emotions to channel emotions into goals, and in over-all self control.

4. Empathy
This is basically the sensitivity to other people’s feelings and perspectives of things.

5. Handling of Relationships
This is one dimension of social intelligence, which is closely intertwined with emotional intelligence since it covers the management of emotions to retain and harmonize relationships.

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