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Lesson 8 - Emotional Intelligence

The document discusses emotional intelligence, highlighting its importance in personal development and relationships. It explains the biological basis of emotions, including the role of the amygdala and the concept of 'amygdala hijack,' which refers to overwhelming emotional responses that occur before rational thought. Additionally, it outlines the five domains of emotional intelligence and four components of social intelligence, emphasizing self-awareness, empathy, and effective relationship management.

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Lesson 8 - Emotional Intelligence

The document discusses emotional intelligence, highlighting its importance in personal development and relationships. It explains the biological basis of emotions, including the role of the amygdala and the concept of 'amygdala hijack,' which refers to overwhelming emotional responses that occur before rational thought. Additionally, it outlines the five domains of emotional intelligence and four components of social intelligence, emphasizing self-awareness, empathy, and effective relationship management.

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LESSON 8- EMOTIONAL

INTELLIGENCE
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

GROUP 1
Aaron john Birung
Andrea Gail Dela Cruz
Jan Alexa Martinez
Althea Lyn Miranda
Alyza Tobias
Shaun Gabriel Tupay
Philander Bench Sotto
Christiane Yance
EMOTIONS
🟇 Impulses to act, the instant plan for
handling life that evolution has
instilled for us.

🟇 Parts of the involved in the creation


of emotions: the amygdala, the
neocortex, and the frontal lobes.
Daniel Goleman traced the orgins of emotions from human grace's
survival instinct to sense, detect, aessess, and act on any threat to its
life and survival.
This is known as the "flight or flight" response which animals and
human alike are capable of doing when faced with danger.
✧ Only the human brain has the capacity to process on an intellectual level the
emotions being experienced.

Validate reality of the danger

Control the emotion being experienced

Act accordingly given several options


(1) Thalamus receives stimulus and
shunts it to amygdala and visual cortex
(2) Amygdala registers danger
(3) Amygdala triggers fast physical reaction
(4) A clear imagae of a snake is sent to the
consicious brain for considered response

Joseph LeDoux and his associates have
demonstrated that the brian is wired to learn
to associate fear with a visual image, sound,
smell, tactal sensation without mediation by
the cereberal cortex (i.e., with out thought). A
person can experience a fear reaction before
they are consciously aware of the stimulus.
Illustration from Rita Carter's Mapping The
Mind
🟇 The amygdala hijack is an immediate,
overwhelming emotional response with
a later realization that the response was
inappropriately strong given the trigger.

🟇 Daniel Goleman coined the term


based on the work of neuroscientist
Joseph LeDoux, which demonstrated
that some emotional information travels
directly from the thalamus to amygdala
without engaging the neocortex, or
higher brain regions.

🟇This causes a strong emotional


response that preceds more rational
thought.
HOW TO COUNTER
AMYGDALA
HIJACK
Reconize / validate the emotional trigger

Use the 6-second rule

Breathe deeply or focus on a pleasant thing


Daniel Goleman Peter Salovey John Mayer

popularized showed how formulated


emotional intelligence can emotional
intelligence. be brought to our intelligence.
emotions.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• "the ability to motivate oneself and persist in the face of


frustrations, to control impulse and delay gratification, to
regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping
the ability to think, to empathize, and to hope." (Goleman)
THE FIVE DOMAINS OF EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE ACCORDING TO SALOVEY
1. Knowing one's emotion or
self-awareness
• Self-awareness brings with it the skill for
self-reflection.
• When one recognizes a negative
emotion, there is also a desire to get rid
of it or get out of that situation which
means that the neocortex is gaining some
control over the amygdala (Mayer).
1. Managing emotions
► Goleman points out that we
often have very little or no
control when an emotion
occurs and what this emotion
will be, but we can have
control on how long an emotion
will last.
3. Motivating oneself
Research studies show that hope is a
major indicator of emotional
intelligence Hope is the element present
when one is fighting some overwhelming
anxiety, or depression. Goleman points
out that optimism is a great motivator, it
provides a person with expectations
that things will turn out better or right,
when faced with adversity.
4. Recognizing emotions in
others
► The capacity to recognize the emotion
in other people is called empathy The root
cause of our capacity to emphatize is self-
awareness. If we recognize our own
emotions and how these affect us, then it
will be easier to recognize other people's
emotions as well.
- Empathy is important in maintaining
relationships as this also taps on the caring
capacity of people.
Attunement
► Attunement Daniel Stern, a psychiatrist
at Cornell University School of Medicine,
found out that the capacity of individual
to empathize is linked to the individual's
need for others to recognize and receive
their emotions and respond to them.
► People who can empathize and read
non-verbal messages of emotions are
more adjusted emotionally, more popular,
more outgoing, and more sensitive.
5. Handling relationships
► Emotional intelligence is also evident in the way we manage our
relationships with others.

Howard Gardner & Thomas Hatch came up with four


components of social intelligence (interpersonal intelligence)

1. Organizing groups
2. Negotiating solutions
3. Personal connection
4. Social analysis
FOUR COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL
INTELLIGENCE
A. Organizing groups
a leadership skill essential in mustering groups of people toward a common action
(conductors, military officers, stage directors)

B. Negotiating solutions
brings people in conflict to talk and come up with a solution (mediators,
negotiators)
FOUR COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL
INTELLIGENCE
C. Personal connection
the talent where empathy and connecting with another's emotions are manifested
(teachers, mentors)

D. Social analysis
the talent to step out of a situation and objectively form insights about the way
people feel and behave (therapists)

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