Emotional intelligence is at the core of what we do. How can we expand our emotional intelligence quotient, and in doing so connect to our own reserves of emotional energy?
On feelings
Guided Meditation for Emotional Processing
The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of whatever arises. Tara Brach guides you through a RAIN meditation. To learn more about her methodoglofies click here.
Tara BrachYoutube Channel
“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” – Audre Lorde (1981)
Audre Lorde’s keynote presentation from June 1981, at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
“Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives.”
Blackpast
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
Have you ever wondered just what emotion are? This podcast investigates emotions, from the biological hardwiring that underpins them to the almost miraculous way our minds interpret and express them.
The Ezra Klein Show
Emotional intelligence
Sometimes the simplest resource offers the greatest insights. This Mental Health America article gives a definition of emotional intelligence in addition to further links related to understanding and expanding it.
Mental Health America
SWITCH PATHWAYS
GROW COMMUNITY
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