What is emotional intelligence (EQ) and how to enhance it?

 In modern times, every thing is fast paced. With it, is surging the human stress. Now, what is EQ?

It is a measure of how efficiently you manage your stress and is emotionally balanced. We need to improve our EQ to lead effective lives in the contemporary world. Anxiety and depression are major concerns today. Enhancing EQ helps manage stress better. Let's see how we can enhance our EQ.

Any skill is learned by first analyzing at what level we are, so is EQ too. Self awareness is the first step towards improving EQ. We must be aware how our emotions flow. Analyze your core feelings like anger, sadness, fear and joy. Reflecting your past experiences is one of the best ways to improve EQ. Think about the changes you like to make if a similar situation arise some other time.

Once we are aware, we can take steps to manage emotions. Try replacing all your negative emotions like fear with positivity. Slow your response time, then reinterpret situations and try to take better decisions.  

When we manage our emotions well, next we've to be socially aware. Study how people emotionally behave to situations. You can better connect with the world around you. By understanding other's feelings, you can empathize with them.

This helps us to create strong relationships with people and makes us more emotionally intelligent.