“Our emotional intelligence ability is increased as we gain mastery over certain behaviors in ourselves that require impulse control. The emotional intelligence model has four basic types of abilities to help measure one’s competency to manage emotional states:
- Perceiving emotions – the ability to detect and decipher emotions in faces, pictures, voices, and cultural artifacts—including the ability to identify one’s own emotions. Perceiving emotions represents a basic aspect of emotional intelligence, as it makes all other processing of emotional information possible.
- Using emotions – the ability to harness emotions to facilitate various activities that require perception, such as thinking and problem-solving. The emotionally intelligent person can benefit fully upon his or her changing moods in order to best fit the task at hand.
- Understanding emotions – the ability to comprehend emotional feeling language and to appreciate complicated relationships among the spectrum of emotions. For example, understanding emotions encompasses the ability to be sensitive to slight variations between emotions, and the ability to recognize and describe how emotions evolve over time.
- Managing emotions – the ability to regulate emotions in both ourselves and in others. Therefore, the emotionally intelligent person can harness emotions, even negative ones, and manage them to achieve intended goals.
As our emotional intelligence increases, we will experience a variety of positive transformations in our life. Destructive behavior patterns of the past may transform into more positive behavior as we begin to solve the mysterious puzzle of human interactions and gain a quiet and confident understanding of them. Anxiety may yield to more peaceful, tranquil, and contented feelings as our deeper emotional understanding increases. We start to gain improved self-confidence, feel empowered, less confused, and less frustrated with our circumstances.
Overall, we can transform from confused to confident; from clueless to comprehending and enlightened, from fragmented to coherent, from shallow to deep, and from oppressed to liberated, as we learn how to become our authentic selves.”
https://energeticsynthesis.com/resource-tools/blog-timeline-shift/2534-emotional-intelligence
