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How Do You Deal With Your Emotions?

February 17, 2013 By Dr. Mike Gosling

Emotions are bodily signals that alert you to changes in your internal or external environment. Emotions are feelings with thoughts attached to them.

Your interpretation or appraisal of your feeling in your body gives rise to an emotion. This is what I describe as EAR—Identity: Event—Appraisal—Response. Each event in your life is appraised in the GAP between event and response. Positive appraisals are a non-problem status—Emotion is regarded as “normal”. Negative interpretations cause your body to experience nervous arousal—emotional constipation!

You react to negative emotion somewhere along a “pain time-line”, where anger is at one end and anxiety at the other. If you have an avoidant emotional style you will feel more anxiety, fear and bewilderment than most people. If you have a reactive emotional style you will feel predominantly emotions of anger, frustration and resentment.

At either end of the “pain time-line” you will experience severe nervous arousal (adrenalin floods) which will promote ruminating over thoughts, worrying incessantly, avoiding situations and people that give you pain or reacting in a way that impacts adversely on others.

Dr. Robert L. Leahy of The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy has given us a schema of how our emotions can lead us down different paths. How do you deal with your emotions? Are they a non-problem status for you or do you ruminate over things or perhaps binge drink to deal with bad feelings? Please comment below.

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Building Leadership For Health

February 12, 2013 By Dr. Mike Gosling

Dr. Peter Salovey, Yale University Provost, speaks at the 2010 Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) Conference, Building Leadership for Health held at Yale University. He extends an official University welcome and shares remarks on the psychology of leadership, drawing on his expertise in emotional intelligence and leadership.

If you’re thinking about becoming an Emotional Leader, then you need to understand your emotional leadership habits will be very different to what you’re accustomed to using. This is pretty much guaranteed for people who have adopted conditioned responses to events.

Make sure you check out this website on a frequent basis to see all of the new additions to Emotional Leadership.

For research on emotional intelligence, click here.

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Anthony Galie on Programming Yourself for Success

February 12, 2013 By Dr. Mike Gosling

Anthony Galie has been motivating people for more than 30 years and is an expert on teaching others how to achieve even the loftiest of goals. Anthony believes that a person can purposefully rewire their subconscious mind for success. Watch this video to hear Galie discuss some great ways you can program yourself to succeed.

Did you learn anything from this video? Did this speech motivate you to strive for greater success? Do you use any of the methods Galie promotes? After watching the video be sure to share your comments below.

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The Divided Brain

February 12, 2013 By Dr. Mike Gosling

A sustainable emotional health solution is vital to human wellness, workplace productivity, and a healthier lifestyle. Never have the prospects been better. People are enthusiastic about the shift to emotional wealth and its potential to eliminate exposure to surges in negative emotion, reduce the impact of stress felt in the body, foster new personal development opportunities and improve one’s quality of life. Corporations are increasingly supportive as they look to strengthen emotional skills and revitalize individual and organizational performance.

In his recent video – The Divided Brain – Psychiatrist, Iain McGilchrist, challenges the notion that the left hemisphere of the brain is all knowing. He asks that we question the left hemisphere talk, which is convincing, and reduce the need to control everything. The right hemisphere doesn’t have a voice and can’t construct all the arguments of the brain’s left hemisphere. He draws us back to what the right hemisphere, the seat of emotion and empathy, knows to a broader context and reminds us that the intuitive mind (the right hemisphere) is a sacred gift.

Working so much with the brain, as I do in my ELPro coaching model, this video offers a refreshing perspective on how the ‘right’ side of the brain – or the emotion side – is so often subsumed as the “poor cousin” of the left. In reality, emotion is the force of real life! What do you think? Please add your comments below.

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Deepak Chopra On Releasing Emotion Toxins

February 12, 2013 By Dr. Mike Gosling

Cleansing your body of emotion toxins (what I call emotional constipation) caused by negative thoughts, wrong or outdated beliefs, values, memories and unmet expectations, will help heal your body and bring back vitality, energy and well-being. Emotional health is your responsibility. No one else can make you angry or anxious!

Deepak Chopra, a world-renowned authority in the field of mind-body healing and a best-selling author, gives us seven steps to releasing emotion toxicity…

Deepak details the seven steps to releasing emotional toxicity, which include:

  • Take responsibility for your emotions.
  • Witness the emotions in your body.>
  • Define it: is it anger, fear?
  • Express it: write down what is happening.
  • Share it with a loved one.
  • Do a ritual to release it: write it down and burn it.
  • Bring it to a closure: go out and celebrate.

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