Mind Meets Heart: The True Essence of Emotional Intelligence
Sanjiv Beri
Wellbeing & People Performance Trainer - Keynote Speaker - Mentor | Changemaker Championing in DEI Centric Excellence in Leadership
What really lies at the heart of this concept of Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI)?
Let’s dive in to demystify emotional intelligence and explore why it's an essential component in our lives.
The Basics of Emotional Intelligence
At its core, emotional intelligence is the ability to identify, understand, manage, and effectively express one’s own emotions, while also being attuned to the emotions of others. Dr. Daniel Goleman, a pioneer in the field, highlights five main components of EI:
Why EQ is More Than Just Being "Emotionally Aware"
While the aforementioned components offer a structured view of EQ, the essence of emotional intelligence runs deeper. It’s about the confluence of the mind (rationality) and heart (emotion). Emotional intelligence challenges the traditional notions of intelligence, indicating that success is not solely derived from cognitive prowess.
The true power of EQ lies in its role in facilitating human connection. It's about fostering environments where people feel valued, understood, and heard. It's the bridge between what's said and unsaid, and the finesse of navigating complex emotional terrains within and around us.
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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
EQ is no doubt a personal development tool, it indeed plays a crucial role in team dynamics, leadership effectiveness, and organizational culture. Leaders with high emotional intelligence are able to:
Cultivating EQ: A Lifelong Journey
Emotional intelligence isn't a static trait – it can be developed and honed over time. Here's how we can start:
The Power of a Unified Heart and Mind
To truly succeed in today's intricate world, we must go beyond the intellect and tap into the profound power of the heart. After all, in the delicate dance of human interaction, it's emotional intelligence that often leads the way.
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Co-Founder and CEO @ WELLNESS WORLD USA? | Tita Talks Podcast, Author, Public Speaker, Professor
8 个月Wonderful piece! I created an incredible Emotional Intelligence, Wellness and Selfcare curriculum for my Emerson and Harvard students and we practiced heart centered exercises like gratitude, kindness, compassion and so forth...to better understand the EI concepts. I appreciate your piece! Yes, I believe and agree, "we must go beyond the intellect and tap into the profound power of the heart." Imagine, the authentic impact and connectivity that can be achieved when you can truly understand the connection of "Mind Meets Heart" and then further that understanding to Mind-Body connection combined with Dr. Daniel Goleman's five main components of EI: Self-awareness: Recognizing and understanding one’s own emotions. Self-regulation: Controlling or redirecting disruptive emotions and impulses. Motivation: Being driven to achieve for the sake of achievement. Empathy: Understanding the emotional makeup of others. Social skills: Managing relationships to move people in desired directions. Thank you again for sharing. With Gratitude, Tita
Transforming Capability- Leaders to frontline teams. Warm, supportive and Systemic Coach, Facilitator, Teacher - expertise across ESG, HSE, Risk & Stakeholder engagement
1 年I'd confidently go as far as saying its at the CORE of human everything - all that we do inside our skins. And all that we do WITH each other and the energetic spaces IN-BETWEEN us - which according to several spiritual and psycho-therapeutic traditions, may be or IS actually US more than the 'core-energy-being' hanging out in our torsos... ?? ??♂? ?? Like numerous traditional societies & their 'Prosocial' & richly, multi-layered & connected ways & means of surviving, healing, & thriving together, we are only fairly recently coming to understand with our 'science kits' - just how the physiological & energetic dynamics of self-regulation & group co-regulation ACTUALLY WORK in very-social mammals like us. And for a world of us & a biosphere we've been destroying exponentially, the capacity to deeply, richly & RAPIDLY engage with each other somatically so as to connect, align and activate our actions consistent with our Pro-social & Eco-social Sustainability & immediate Survival needs, COULD WELL BE the thing that saves more of us from a hellish death than the 'every man for himself' trope that we have allowed to RUN & RUIN so much of the world we ARE SUPPOSED TO ONLY BE BORROWING and HANDING OVER BETTER - Just sayin'...
Editor, Journalist, Content Audit Specialist
1 年Mindfulness is only the beginning. The heart energy field is so much stronger than the brain's energy field, and when these two are linked together also with the energy field produced by the gut, you have true Heartfulness Practice. This is allowing the heart to lead, not the brain.
Coach, Founder, Speaker, Writer at In Awe Foundation, Inc.
1 年Sanjiv Beri much appreciation for your informative EQ or EI article! ??????