Emotions: The Orchestra
Parrish Owen Taylor
Human Performance Solutions - Personal, Team and Organizational Development Strategies with a core focus on emotional intelligence, personality styles and our proprietary mental & emotional training program.
The Orchestra of Emotions is a simple explanation using the sounds of music to better understand our human (personal) feelings, moods, and emotions.
For simplicity we can say feelings, moods, desire, emotions ... lets put all these together in one group for this example. When we say emotions ... we are referring to all the above. In this example when we say emotions, we are referring to a long list of over 200 "emotions" (according to our friends in Psychology).
We are also learning that you will experience a great deal of each emotion throughout each day of your life ... directly impacting the decisions you make (big ones and the most small trivial decisions we make by habit).
Did you catch that detail?
Every second of the day your mind is thinking (we call it chatter; another lesson).
These random thoughts, words and mental pictures impact another part of your brain we are now learning more about from our friends in Neurology. The short lesson here is that your mind is going to think on it's own ... and as it does the emotional centers in your brain are right there creating the music.
Consider the Orchestra - A full range of sounds, instruments, tempo and harmony; your emotions work in the same way.
An entire event with nothing but happy happy, high pitch, fast tempo sounds would drive you bat-crap crazy. While a two hour marathon with sad, slow and low pitch sounds would put you to sleep before intermission.
We appreciate the full sounds of the Orchestra and the emotional stimulation that comes from the full drama of the music...
Life, your day... and all the emotions you will feel today unfold as a beautiful Orchestra.
Emotional Quotient is the science - now valid and reliable after thirty years of refinement; Emotional Intelligence is the set of skills and abilities that we can now measure.
Emotions are scary for pretty much all of us ... we do not understand them, they change frequent (hint hint - your Orchestra plays daily).
Science validates what is happening inside of you - chances are you have not had any formal training or education on this New-News. More importantly, you maybe lacking the depth of knowledge (or understanding) on how your Orchestra playing without your awareness each day ... will hurt you.
In the simplest explanation of the "mind" as we know it today ... it will either HELP you today (with purpose, intent and discipline). Or, your own mind will HURT you today (without your knowledge, the enemy is inside).
Conclusion - learn to enjoy your Orchestra every day, every second of the day (86, 400 of em). This ability requires skills you either have and do not know, or do not have and must learn to develop (EQ & EI).
Good bless ... every one wins when we are more emotionally intelligent.
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Parrish Owen Taylor
PS - Teach a kid to be smart about emotions and learn these skills; just because we may have missed it or show up a little late doesn't mean we need to short-change the next generation.