Tuesday, March 13, 2007
My profession is psychology
All the time I wanted to study psychology, because this profession involves many subjects and if you are in this area, you can work everywhere: in schools, hospitals, prisons, in business area - everywhere. Psychology is very interesting, because it is a study about human itself, not only how it thinks, or behaves, but also how it is going to think or do based on this mind or other circumstances. The most interesting thing is that people behave not only because of their minds, but because of their anatomy, their nerves as well. This is neuropsychology. I am interested in this area, although I think I would like to see me working in clinical psychology area. This psychology involves studies about human memory, sleep and the specialists consult people. The most interesting area is sleep for me - why do people sleep? why they do not fall out from their beds at night? what causes imsomnia and other sleeping disorders? what is happening in people bodies during the sleep?Psychology is a study that you all the time can find out something new. The progress never stops and the specialists "invents" many new ideas about humans every day.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups. It shows how do you get along with other people. Usually it is measured with EQ tests. I have tried to evaluate my EQ and I found it difficult, because I though the test would be much shorter and much easier. I think tests can show a lot, but not all the truth, so you should not believe everything, what you read.
Highly intelligent people may lack the social skills that are associated with high emotional intelligence. I have read about savants, people who have incredibly high IQ and can show unbelievable mathematical skills, but usually they have low EQ and they find it very difficult to communicate with other people or finding new friends.
Emotional literacy is an ability to label specific feelings in yourself and others and being able to discuss emotions and communicate clearly and directly with other people. It means being able to talk about emotions without getting overly emotional or denying them. Emotional literacy is not using ‘I feel...’ statements to offer opinions, ideas and so on.
Emotional need is a craving that, when satisfied, leaves you feeling happy and, when unsatisfied, leaves you feeling frustrating. There are thousands of emotional needs, but I will try to tell you only few important needs. So a person must feel: free, respected, valuated, loved, worthy, admired and so on. Mostly there are some basic feeling words that describe feeling in one or another way. So here are the examples: accepted - rejected, proud - embarassed, supported - unsupported, accepted - dismissed and so on. Each person has different feeling words.
All in all, I would like to say, that emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your own emotions and those of people around you. It is relevant to communacating well with other people, although every human must understand another and try to help each other in any way, because otherwise it will be difficult to live for everyone.
Highly intelligent people may lack the social skills that are associated with high emotional intelligence. I have read about savants, people who have incredibly high IQ and can show unbelievable mathematical skills, but usually they have low EQ and they find it very difficult to communicate with other people or finding new friends.
Emotional literacy is an ability to label specific feelings in yourself and others and being able to discuss emotions and communicate clearly and directly with other people. It means being able to talk about emotions without getting overly emotional or denying them. Emotional literacy is not using ‘I feel...’ statements to offer opinions, ideas and so on.
Emotional need is a craving that, when satisfied, leaves you feeling happy and, when unsatisfied, leaves you feeling frustrating. There are thousands of emotional needs, but I will try to tell you only few important needs. So a person must feel: free, respected, valuated, loved, worthy, admired and so on. Mostly there are some basic feeling words that describe feeling in one or another way. So here are the examples: accepted - rejected, proud - embarassed, supported - unsupported, accepted - dismissed and so on. Each person has different feeling words.
All in all, I would like to say, that emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your own emotions and those of people around you. It is relevant to communacating well with other people, although every human must understand another and try to help each other in any way, because otherwise it will be difficult to live for everyone.
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