The Emotional Compass

Author: Ilse Sand
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503924
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Feelings are something we have, not something we are.' Revealing the complexity of emotions such as happiness, anger, fear, and jealousy, and how these are based on our perception of other people, Ilse Sand offers her professional wisdom on the psychology of feelings. Establishing that emotions are not always as appropriate as they first appear to be, the book encourages you to take a closer look at why you are feeling certain things, and how you can change how you feel. Especially written for highly sensitive people, guidance is included on how to identify the vulnerable feelings that often underlie our more volatile emotional states, and practical activities are suggested to help to embrace or reject sadness, delay impulsive actions, and allow yourself to be happy. Drawing on real-life examples throughout, the book offers you the means to improve your understanding of not only your own emotions and emotional actions, but those of others. The book will be immensely useful not only to people who feel things strongly, but to those who have trouble understanding or interpreting emotions and how to respond to the feelings they provoke.

The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence

Author: Barbara Aker
Publisher: Barbara Aker
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence Do you ever feel like your emotions are controlling you? Do you find it difficult to manage your anger, anxiety, or sadness? If so, you're not alone. Many people struggle with their emotions, and it can be a major obstacle to living a happy and fulfilling life. The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence is a comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence. It will teach you how to identify your emotions, understand their triggers, and manage them in a healthy way. You'll also learn how to use your emotions to your advantage, and how to build stronger relationships with others. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1: The Basics of Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Your Emotions Part 2: Managing Your Emotions and Using Emotions to Your Advantage Each part of the book includes practical advice that you can use to improve your emotional intelligence. The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence is an essential resource for anyone who wants to improve their emotional intelligence. It's a clear, concise, and easy-to-follow guide that will help you to understand your emotions and use them to live a happier and more fulfilling life. Here are some of the benefits of reading The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence You'll learn how to identify your emotions and understand their triggers. You'll learn how to manage your emotions in a healthy way. You'll learn how to use your emotions to your advantage. You'll build stronger relationships with others. You'll improve your overall well-being. If you're ready to take control of your emotions and live a happier, more fulfilling life, then The Emotion Compass: Navigating Life with Emotional Intelligence is the book for you!!

Emotional Compass

Author: Helle Fionenko
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The Emotional Compass" is a guide through the world of emotion, offering readers practical strategies and exercises for improving self-awareness, managing feelings, and developing interpersonal communication skills. This book aims to help readers consciously interact with their own emotions and the emotions of others, improve relationships, and enhance the quality of life. From self-analysis and reflection to specific strategies for stress management and conflict resolution, "The Emotional Compass" is a comprehensive resource for those seeking personal growth and emotional well-being. Chapters Include: Chapter 1: Understanding Emotions Chapter 2 - Analyzing Your Own Emotions Chapter 3: Self-Regulation Techniques Chapter 4: Working with Negative Emotions Chapter 5 - Developing a Positive Self-Attitude Chapter 6 - Improving Relationships with Others Chapter 7: Emotional Resilience Chapter 8. Practical Strategies

The Emotion Compass

Author: Keisha McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955234108
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This guide offers practical tools, empowering techniques Unlocking Self-Awareness for Emotional Wellness. This workbook will help you find practical tools and exercises designed to help you process and manage your emotions effectively. Whether you're exploring joy, navigating sadness, embracing peace, or confronting anxiety, each page offers guidance to cultivate emotional intelligence and foster personal growth.

Your Mindful Compass

Author: Andrea Maloney Schara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615928791
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.

Emotional Advantage

Author: Randy Taran
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250200067
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
“Emotional Advantage is such an uplifting answer to our challenging times. In its pages, you will find encouragement, support, and new perspectives. Randy Taran offers an antidote to emotional overwhelm—a powerful way to discover how useful your emotions can be in guiding you towards your best life.”—Marci Shimoff, #1 NewYorkTimes bestselling author of HappyForNoReason and ChickenSoupfortheWoman’sSoul Award-winning author, producer, and founder of Project Happiness, Randy Taran knows that every emotion, feeling, and mental state has the power to bring us back to our true essence, and that readers can use Emotional Advantage as a guide to get there. In recent years, there has been an overwhelming interest in the science of happiness and positive psychology, and many books on the subject. There is a good reason for this: it is a core, universal human drive. And while happiness has opened the door for many to move forward, there is a burgeoning curiosity about the full range of human emotions, all of which factor into the human experience. What do we do when life does not go as planned? Neuroscience reveals that to understand and utilize any emotion, we need to “name it to tame it.” It turns out that even negative emotions have something to offer, if we know how to learn from them. Have you ever woken up in a fog of feelings and felt directionless? Or maybe it was hard to pinpoint exactly what you were feeling, but it wasn’t where you wanted to be? What if we could actually use our feelings as a pathway to guide us back to our inner compass? What if, like alchemists, we had the tools to transform our emotions to take charge of creating our very best life? What if we could comprehend how even the most troublesome emotions are sending messages to alert, protect, and fuel us forward? Emotional Advantage is that guide. It will show us how a new perspective on fear can move us to courage, how guilt can clarify our values, and how anger can help us create healthy boundaries.

The Power of Feelings

Author: Vivian Dittmar
Publisher: Verlag Vcs Dittmar, Edition Est
ISBN: 9783940773166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Your Feelings determine who you are and how you live your life. Like most people, you probably spend a lot of time and money trying to create or avoid certain feelings. In order to liberate the true power of your feelings, you need to understand their real purpose. They are the keys to your emotional potential and intelligence. Learn why feelings like anger, sadness, fear and shame are really the key to your clarity, love, creativity, humility and natural authority - and how you can unlock it!

Shame and Pride

Author: Donald L. Nathanson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311099
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
This is a revolutionary book about the nature of emotion, about the way emotions are triggered in our private moments, in our relations with others, and by our biology. Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Dr. Nathanson shows how the nine basic affects--interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-startle, fear-terror, distress-anguish, anger-rage, dissmell, disgust, and shame-humiliation--not only determine how we feel but shape our very sense of self. For too long there has been a battle between those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry. As Dr. Nathanson shows, chemicals and illnesses can affect our mood just as surely as an uncomfortable memory or a stern rebuke. He presents a completely new understanding of all emotion, providing the first link between the exciting affect theory of Silvan Tomkins and the entire world of biology, medicine, psychology, psychotherapy, religion, and the social sciences. Shame is the least understood of the painful emotions, although it affects every phase of life. We have all been made to feel foolish just at the moment we most wanted to appear wonderful; we have all been rebuffed by those we wished to court. Not one of us looks exactly as we might wish. Shame haunts our every dream of love, and influences how we experience ourselves as sexual beings. We react to shame by withdrawing, by making painful alliances with those who humiliate us, by calling attention to what brings us pride, or by attacking whoever has made us feel inferior. The comedian, as Nathanson shows in his discussion of Buddy Hackett, makes us laugh at what we try to keep hidden, transforming shame intoacceptance and even pride. This book explains everything that can possibly make us proud or ashamed. All are in this book; nobody who reads it will be quite the same again.

Using Your Emotion Compass to Stay on Course

Author: Tyger Gilbert
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781492198185
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
What Is Your Emotion Compass? Simply put, Your Emotion Compass is a feedback device in a system you can use to get on course and stay on course in your life while it ensures that you optimize your achievements and maximize your Happiness every day. What this book does for you is extremely important: It stimulates your Imagination with visual explanations of how your Mind works so the concepts are easy to understand and relate to, and it causes you to think carefully about how well your life functions. It gets you to recognize how your emotions may be defeating your ambitions and demonstrates ways to modify and overcome your own negative Beliefs that are holding you back. Then it shows you how to plot a course to Happiness and Success, in whatever ways you choose to define them, and helps you get going and keep going at full-speed ahead in the most beneficial direction possible for you. You aren't getting any younger! How long anyone will live is indeterminate, but the fact remains that you have a finite amount of time every day and only a limited number of years in your life to do what you Want to do. Your emotions are indicators of whether you are doing the right things to achieve your objectives or not. Your Emotion Compass gives you an effective tool to interpret that input data and direct your efforts toward accomplishing what you really Want most. After all, why spend a major portion of your life being angry, afraid, sad or otherwise upset when what you really Want is to be Happy? Effective and beneficial regardless of your Needs or Desires Based on the proven principles of Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz and adaptations of the methods of REBT, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, the very successful psychotherapy founded by psychologist Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Your Emotion Compass guides you through the process of determining what you Need and what you Want in life. It helps you discover the irrational ideas that cause you problems in achieving your objectives and shows you how to replace them with more constructive and useful ways of thinking. Then it gives you a step-by-step method you can use to accomplish exactly what you desire. Decide to get this system now! Put it to work for you immediately and you will use it to increase your Happiness for the rest of your life.

It's Not Always Depression

Author: Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588140
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety. Bonnie was shut down, disconnected from her feelings. These patients all came to psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel seeking treatment for depression, but in fact none of them were chemically depressed. Rather, Jacobs Hendel found that they’d all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Jacobs Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and fulfillment through an empathic and effective therapeutic approach that draws on the latest science about the healing power of our emotions. Whereas conventional therapy encourages patients to talk through past events that may trigger anxiety and depression, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), the method practiced by Jacobs Hendel and pioneered by Diana Fosha, PhD, teaches us to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, guilt, and anxiety) that block core emotions (anger, sadness, fear, disgust, joy, excitement, and sexual excitement). Fully experiencing core emotions allows us to enter an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. In It’s Not Always Depression, Jacobs Hendel shares a unique and pragmatic tool called the Change Triangle—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. In these pages, she teaches lay readers and helping professionals alike • why all emotions—even the most painful—have value. • how to identify emotions and the defenses we put up against them. • how to get to the root of anxiety—the most common mental illness of our time. • how to have compassion for the child you were and the adult you are. Jacobs Hendel provides navigational tools, body and thought exercises, candid personal anecdotes, and profound insights gleaned from her patients’ remarkable breakthroughs. She shows us how to work the Change Triangle in our everyday lives and chart a deeply personal, powerful, and hopeful course to psychological well-being and emotional engagement.