Emotional Awareness

1. Emotional Awareness

2. What is Emotional Awareness? • The ability to recognize which emotions you are feeling and why • The foundation on which most of the other elements of EQ rest

3. Vocabulary of Emotions What am I feeling? • Identify your emotions • Own your emotions (no one makes you feel a certain way) • Control your emotions

4. Feelings and Behavior How are your feelings affecting your behavior? • The capacity to know what you are feeling and how you are behaving allows you a degree of control over your potentially alienating behavior. • Out-of-control emotions always work against you!

5. A father learned that he did not receive the salary increase he’d been hoping for. When he came home, he began to shout at his daughter, who was watching TV, telling her to turn it off and study. She told him that he wasn’t being fair, and that she didn’t watch very often. When the mother said that it was time to eat, the daughter angrily went to her room, and the parents ate alone in silence. What was the father feeling? What was his daughter feeling? What caused his emotions? What caused her emotions? What could he have done differently? How could she have responded differently? Case Study

6. Physical Signs • What physical signs can alert you that anger, fear or anxiety is rising inside of you?

7. DISC • Different personality types are prone to different emotional challenges. • What strong positive emotions and strong negative emotions might tend to be expressed by a high D, I, S or C? • What emotions do you tend to experience the most? (positive and negative)

8. Self-Defeating Talk: False Beliefs