Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Training Course - 1 Day

Life results are affected by multiple factors, but one of the most important factors is the habitual emotional state that a person feels, hour by hour, day by day, week by week.

How a person subjectively feels affects how they behave, which affects their objective results.

A person's whole experience of life is coloured by how they habitually feel.

Therefore, the ability to manage emotional states is of vital and immediate importance to everyone.

Everyone knows that we should be positive. But the question is, how?

The single most important thing to know is:
Emotions have definite causes, and the primary cause is the content of the mind.

You feel whatever you think about.

If a person’s thoughts are of a certain character, their emotions will reflect the colour of their dominating thoughts. If a person’s mind is full of dark thoughts, then their emotions will be equally dark. If a person’s mind is full of lighter thoughts, then their emotions will be correspondingly lighter.

We will find examples of each type; prove this theory is correct and then we will apply it to ourselves and others.

There are five major categories of thought. Each category has a particular class of content. Each class has a corresponding set of emotions. Three of the five categories have negative emotional consequences.

Two of the five, have positive emotional consequences. (These ratios explain why most people are not as happy as they think they could be).

We will reveal the five categories of thought, and ask you how you currently use your emotional brain? What are your ratios, and consequently how do you feel?

All emotions have their place; even negative emotions are sometimes valid. But an excess of any emotion, is an overdose and can be harmful. For example, too much confidence, has the potential to be detrimental.

Therefore, we will establish a perfect balance between the positive and so called negative emotions, so that we are all perfectly poised for life here on planet earth, with all its dangers, uncertainties and opportunities to succeed.

Now we know what the perfectly poised mind should be, we then shape our language to correspond as closely as possible to the ideal. We can change emotional states by wilfully changing what we talk about, what we read, and who we listen to!

In theory it is simple. We just have to discipline ourselves to do it.

Now we know that words change minds, we use this fact as a tool to help others. We will learn what to say to inspire positive emotions. And equally important, we will learn what to STOP saying.

Emotions have two causes: the state of mind and body. Now we shift the discussion away from psychology and move it to the physiological side of life.

Nothing happens without energy. Life itself is a form of energy. Positive emotions require more energy than negative. And energy cannot be created, it must be supplied.

Energy is supplied, or not supplied, by the combination of health habits. Some health habits cause a lack of energy, and therefore negative emotional states. Other health habits facilitate positive emotional states

Let us look at how bad habits negatively affect emotions.

Many people create the conditions that are precursors to depression by failing to support their physical body, or worse, they actively undercut their health by terrible health habits.

This undermining of the physical system almost guarantees negative emotional states.

The opposite is also true. Positive health habits form conditions that are precursors to positive emotions. Many people have such terrific health habits, that they almost guarantee positive emotional states.

Conditioning of the physical body is the lever we use to lift people’s spirits.

The next component of our emotional intelligence training is social. We know that people affect people: some people lift your spirits, others don’t. Some people you find depressing to be around.

Our next emotional management skill is to select the influences that influence you.

We will decide how we can make our social conditions conducive to our desire to be happy, healthy and well balanced.
Limit exposure to emotionally dangerous types.
Maximise exposure to emotionally supportive types.

Now we shift our attention to physical surroundings: People are affected by their physical environments. What we see, hear, touch, taste and smell, has a profound effect on how we feel.

Too much noise, not enough heat, uncomfortable chairs, drab surroundings all have an effect.

We will take this idea seriously and formulate our plans to make our environments more emotionally supportive.

We now have a terrific amount of knowledge. It is up to us to put theory into practice to help ourselves and others.