This document discusses emotional intelligence and developing emotional awareness. It covers key concepts like ego states, the triune brain, life positions, and games-free living. It also discusses developing emotional literacy, understanding the roots of emotions in the parent, adult and child ego states. Specific strategies mentioned include analyzing ego states, giving and accepting strokes from others, and opening one's heart through mutual affection and responsibility. The overall message is that emotional intelligence can be learned and improved through understanding emotions and developing emotional awareness.
6. Emotional Literacy:
Emotional Literacy helps your emotions to work for you instead of
against you, it improves relationships, creates loving possibilities
between people, makes cooperative work possible, and facilitates the
feeling of Community.
8. Parent Ego State
Behaviors, thoughts and feelings copied
from parents and parent figures
Adult Ego State
Behaviors, thoughts and feelings which are direct
responses to the here and now
(responding the situation)
Child Ego State
Behaviors, thoughts and feelings replayed from
childhood
Ego States
10. Critical Parent Ego State:
Critical Parent has en external source; it is like a tape recording of other
people’s thoughts and opinions. The Critical Parent is an external influence
that is allowed to run (and sometimes ruin) our lives.
25. Why are Emotions difficult to control?
Emotional Hijacking
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26. “The amygdala can only react based on previously stored patterns. The
amygdala is a very primitive part of the brain that is basically designed for
survival, rather than problem solving in complex situation.”
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32. Opening the Heart :
With supportive people and friends, you take part in simples acts of
mutual affection.
Surveying the Emotional Landscape:
You focus on the ebb and flow of your own emotions and those of
those of people around you. Listening with an open heart you strive
to understand emotions and their reasons.
Taking Responsibility:
You admit that with minor or major mistakes you have hurt people
in your life. You apologize and make amends.
33. “Skills can be learned and the attitudes can be adopted, which
is why emotional intelligence is changeable and developable.”