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Since he has been on Earth, Man has had to face a dangerous environment. As population increased, the need arose to share knowledge and organize resources. Language and conceptual thinking developed in sophistication, with specialized brain centers becoming adapted for the task. Teaching of young people concentrated on this rational aspect of intellect, which is a left brain activity, and right brain functions (including intuitive and emotional processing) were no longer part of the masculine stereotype. But this limited form of intelligence has its problems.
The Middle East conflict and many other events preceding and inevitably to follow, show that something is missing. The Western world is full of IQ teaching oriented to the left brain - rational and irrational focused thought processes, but not a single school for EQ (Emotional Intelligence) which fully encompasses and integrates right brain activity - non-verbal, holistic thought processes including emotions based on perception of real experience and holistic understanding and the resulting intuitive feelings.
Intelligence of the heart is lacking in our culture, so that all too often, instead of acting with integrated reason and feelings, we react with the emotional maturity of spoilt children. Instead of being recognized and understood consciously, emotions are supressed or resisted, giving them subconscious power. They then drive our behavior, and we use our rational intelligence to justify such behavior. Instead of conscious persons who understand why they feel and consequently behave as they do, we have become subconsciously driven and susceptible to cultural conditioning - even hypnosis and brainwashing. Our unempathetic and unethical behavior - and the corresponding lies and rationalizations that result - destroy our spiritual integrity.
In the whole of life, you have only two ways:
- The way of Love and its components: empathy, trust, certainty, confidence, understanding, etc...
- The way of Fear and its components: lies, refusal to understand, harmful acts, withheld communication, etc...
This is the whole scene regarding those old archetypes: forces of the light and forces of the dark. At any moment, we can be part of either one side or the other depending on whether we act through love or through fear.
As we create every second, our creation is either towards light or darkness. And God, which is the sum of all consciousness, encompasses both our light and our darkness. Earth experience is mainly the opportunity to decide which way (towards light or dark) we want to create.
There is clearly a great need for an increased understanding and practice of Emotional Intelligence in our culture. In the world of business, factors that are really important to succeed in an ethical manner are dependent on EQ: the cooperation of employees, creativity and open-mindedness, understanding of another's point of view, ability to use empathy in negotiations, the quality of leadership and communication.
These factors are equally important in the running of schools, health services, local government and politics. They are an essential part of our personal and spiritual development and perhaps most importantly, they are principles that our children need to be taught.
Please click on the links below for more information...
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Understanding and Releasing Emotions
Emotional Intelligence & The Celestine Prophecy
Discover a Child's Genius
Connections: Books & Links
A Natural Process for Opening the Heart
'Hearts Made Strong' by Shirley Napp
'The Shadow People: A woman's battle with multiple personality disorder' A short story by Angel Shadow
Are You Trying Too Hard to Be Happy?
More articles about Emotional Intelligence
Tools for Emotional Intelligence
1. Fulfilling Your Potential
2. The Highest Need
3. The Evolution of Personality
4. Why Do People Behave the Way They Do?
5. Man as a Social Being
6. Discovering Fixed Ideas
7. Moral Development
8. The Mind-Body Split
9. The Three Worlds
10. How to Make Affirmations Work
11. Dimensions of Creativity
12. The Heart Journal - A Spiritual Workbook
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"A Natural Process for Opening the Heart"
These self help tapes or CDs work in terms of helping you become aware of your feelings as different from your obsessive, controlling thoughts. This awareness alone can give you power over your unconscious reactions to daily life situations. The content on these audio progams is so helpful that they are worth thousands of dollars of regular psychotherapy sessions. They teach you how to become rich with life, sane and vibrant.
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Mother Earth intended for your own natural energy to bring you solid self-confidence, reliable inner peace and abundance vitality. She did not intent for you to stop your feelings, hold back, act a certain way or be different from whom you are. A Natural Process for Opening the Heart was made to show you how to achieve better mental health, emotional health and physical health. You can learn to receive and give more real love. You can feel equal to all people.
Dr. Jeanette shows you how to accept and love your authentic emotional self, give up guilt and judgment and come to terms with your own power and energy. The results are more self-confidence, security and maturity.
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'HeartHealth - The Psychology of the Heart'
This work offers us a journey into the pureness of our beings, back into the heart center whose openness or relative closedness has a great effect on our immune systems. Few people have been able to explain why one person falls ill and others do not. Why some people can chain smoke for decades and not get cancer and others do. Deep inside of us is our being, our feeling as opposed to our thinking center. How we are in our beings has more to do with what happens in our lives then any doctor will ever admit. Disease starts when we separate from our own feelings, from the heart center that just feels. Thus denial of feelings, or repression of feelings in any way, gets mirrored almost immediately in the immune system.
The immune system is tied directly to the whole, to every aspect of our health and life. It represents the whole and upon its health much depends. The book Emotional Intelligence was no joke, Daniel Goldman had a whole lot of highly intelligent things to say. Emotional health is essential for strong immune system function. Emotional Intelligence goes even further, penetrating spiritual mysteries through a grounded understanding of intuition and feelings. Deep in our hearts we know that love is essential to our health, essential for harmony to exist in our inner beings.
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