Emotions Coaching
This module is designed to give you tools and techniques to take control of your emotions.
At the end of this module you will:
- Understand that emotional balance can help protect our health and well-being.
- Learn how each emotion prepares the body for a different kind of response.
- Explain how the amygdala can take control over what we do even as the thinking brain, the neocortex, is still coming to a decision.
- Understand exactly what it means to use our emotions intelligently.
- Know that the crucial emotional competencies can be learned and improved upon.
- Have a clearer understanding of the degree to which our emotions play a part in health and disease.
- Be aware of the new discoveries about the brain’s emotional architecture.
- Explain those most baffling moments in our lives when feeling overrides reason.
- Understand that interplay of brain structures that rule our moments of rage and fear, or passion and joy.
- Know how we learn the emotional habits that can undermine our best intentions.
- Learn what we can do to subdue our more destructive and self-defeating emotional impulses.
- Rein in emotional impulse.
- Read another’s innermost feelings.
- Handle relationships smoothly.
- Be aware that toxic emotions put our health at risk.
- Be self aware: observe yourself and recognise your feelings, be able to describe your feelings and know the relationship between feelings,thoughts and reactions.
- Make personal decisions: examine your actions and know their consequences, know if thought or feeling is ruling a decision.
- Manage your feelings: monitor ‘self talk’ to catch negative messages and putdowns; realise what’s behind a feeling; find ways to handle fears, anxieties, anger and sadness.
- Handle stress: learn the value of exercise, guided visualisation and relaxation techniques.
- Have empathy: understand the feelings of others and take their perspective, appreciate the differences in how people feel about things.
- Communicate openly: talk about feelings effectively; be a good listener and question asker; distinguish between what someone does or says and your own reactions or judgements about it; sending ‘I’ messages instead of blame.
- Practice self-disclosure: value openness and build trust in relationship; know when it is safe to risk talking about your private feelings.
- Have insight: identify patterns in your emotional life and reactions; recognise similar patterns in others.
- Accept yourself: feel pride and see yourself in a positive light; recognise your strengths, weaknesses; be able to laugh at yourself.
- Demonstrate personal responsibility: take responsibility; recognise the consequences of your decisions and actions; accept your feelings and moods; follow through on commitments.
- Be assertive: state your feelings and concerns without anger or passivity.
- Be cooperative: know when and how to lead; when to follow.
- Resolve conflict: know how to ‘fight fair’.
Emotions are difficult to assess because they don’t lend themselves easily to testing.
In the last fifty years or so, neurologists have come to the conclusion that our brain is ‘three-tiered’ and that each one forms a different centre of awareness. The three types are identified as:
1. The Cortex - this outer area of the brain with it’s respective lobes is concerned with language, thinking, planning, organising and consciousness.
2. The Limbic System - the emotional centre that creates feelings but is not conscious in itself. It is the most powerful generator of anger in the nervous system and has the greatest influence on our behaviour.
3. Brainstem and Cerebellum - the centre responsible for the more mechanical aspects of the body, being dedicated to movement, the physical senses and instinctual responses.
The connection between the three brains is anything but efficient. Often communication breaks down between all three. This can cause a split in which we tend to operate in only one mode - physical, mental or emotional.
In the first unit of emotions, we will focus on the emotional brain or limbic system. Later we will focus on how to understand and relate to our emotions, how to change destructive patterns in your life and work towards emotional intelligence in all areas of your life. This is where you get to choose what you want to feel, at a time you want to feel it, to the degree you want to feel it and for as long as you want to feel it.
Sounds a little far away? It is possible and our Success Strategies For Life will show you how.
Do your emotions rule you?
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