It was an ordinary day. Reading one of the magazines that my son had saved for me and dropped off at our villa a few days ago. The magazine was from the company that prints "Psycology Now." This particular magazine was titled "Understanding Your Emotions" and The Science Behind Why We Feel The Way We Do. One of the many remarkable pages of information in the magazine was titled "5 Ways to improve your emotional intelligence." Follow along and see if they may help you!
1. LEARN YOUR EMOTIONS: Take the time to acknowledge your emotions and appraise how you're feeling. What emotion are you experiencing and how is it making you react? What triggered the emotion.
2. ADAPT YOUR RESPONSE: Take a pause when you feel an emotion arise and consider it. For example, if something has made you angry and you want to shout, take a breath and think, "How could I respond to this another way?"
3. REQUEST FEEDBACK: Talk to others around you about how they perceive you and how you react to situations. It might be quite revealing, and you may get answers that are different than what you expected.
4. CONSUME VARIED CONTENT: To develop empathy, try to make an effort to consume media that's outside your lived experience, whether that's by following different voices on social media, reading a wide range of books or watching documentaries.
5. LEARN TO LISTEN: When you're having a conversation with someone, really listen. Don't let your mind wander, but look at their body language and the words they are using. This will hep you to pick up on different cues and understand how they are feeling.
This is one of many pages in the magazine that are meant to help me with my mental health and how to understand my emotions. Other stories were titled "Facing Your Fears," "What is Love," and the "Top Ten Strangest Phobias." Just in case you might be interested in the Top 10 Strangest Phobias...here they are in no particular order: PAPAPHOBIA: An irrational phobia of the Pope; SOCERAPHOBIA: An irrational fear of your parents-in-law; LUTRAPHOBIA: The irrational fear of otters; ARACHIBUTROPHOBIA: The fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth; OMPHALOPHBIA: The fear of belly buttons; PHOBOPHOBIA: The fear of developing a phobia; SOMNIPHOBIA: The fear of falling asleep; XANTHOPHOBIA: The fear of the color or word yellow; HELIIOPHOBIA: Fear of the Sun, sunlight, or bright lights; TRYPOPHOBIA: An intense fear of small holes or bumps. Well...there you have the top 10 strangest phobias. Can you think of any more that are as crazy as the phobias I just posted? I did read that there are treatments for those that have these phobias. There was the Exposure Therapy, the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Virtual Reality Therapy. Finished reading with an article titled Facing Your Fears where I was told that I can retrain my brain to overcome a phobia. Saved the phamplet just in case I might need it some day. Hope you learned something from my story today. I know I did after typing it. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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