Learn to manage your emotions!
10 September 2013
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Sometimes emotions disrupt and harm good working relationships: anger towards a colleague, frustration after criticism, fear of responding to a superior… These emotions are not necessarily obstacles but can be very useful, provided you know how to express them! Indeed, unexpressed feelings can cause damage. It is therefore important to know how to listen to your emotions and learn to regulate them to avoid tension.
When looking at how the brain works, it has been demonstrated that we have, on the one hand, "reflexes": we instinctively learn lessons from our past experiences (the amygdala intervenes and causes a spontaneous reaction), and we have, on the other hand, "considered" thoughts that allow us to rationalize in order to decide on the reactions to have in the face of these emotions (the neocortex is the seat of thought).
Emotions help in making decisions
We cannot rely solely on reason to decide, we must also feel to be convinced. In the case of recruitment, for example, the rational side is activated when we say "this CV is good" and the feeling when we don't "feel" the candidate.
Emotions encourage action
Each emotion causes a specific chemical reaction that facilitates the action to be decided. The dose of adrenaline secreted during a fit of anger, for example, allows for more energy and therefore increased vigor.
Emotions allow you to react in time
Our emotional reactions will sometimes take precedence over our rational reactions: the neocortex is short-circuited by the amygdala, and the reaction is then uncontrolled. This can sometimes be salutary, because we act without thinking and it saves us (burning sensation for example), but it can also "play tricks" on us in a professional context… It is therefore necessary to know how to master them in order to use them intelligently: emotional intelligence is the art of making our emotions intelligent, and thus reacting appropriately.
There are three main tips for mastering your emotions:
1. identify it, recognize it, in short feel it, and accept it because it is part of your functioning
2. understand how and to what extent it affects you
3. act to achieve the desired satisfaction
Article written by L’Equipe de ReKrute.com
When looking at how the brain works, it has been demonstrated that we have, on the one hand, "reflexes": we instinctively learn lessons from our past experiences (the amygdala intervenes and causes a spontaneous reaction), and we have, on the other hand, "considered" thoughts that allow us to rationalize in order to decide on the reactions to have in the face of these emotions (the neocortex is the seat of thought).
Emotions help in making decisions
We cannot rely solely on reason to decide, we must also feel to be convinced. In the case of recruitment, for example, the rational side is activated when we say "this CV is good" and the feeling when we don't "feel" the candidate.
Emotions encourage action
Each emotion causes a specific chemical reaction that facilitates the action to be decided. The dose of adrenaline secreted during a fit of anger, for example, allows for more energy and therefore increased vigor.
Emotions allow you to react in time
Our emotional reactions will sometimes take precedence over our rational reactions: the neocortex is short-circuited by the amygdala, and the reaction is then uncontrolled. This can sometimes be salutary, because we act without thinking and it saves us (burning sensation for example), but it can also "play tricks" on us in a professional context… It is therefore necessary to know how to master them in order to use them intelligently: emotional intelligence is the art of making our emotions intelligent, and thus reacting appropriately.
There are three main tips for mastering your emotions:
1. identify it, recognize it, in short feel it, and accept it because it is part of your functioning
2. understand how and to what extent it affects you
3. act to achieve the desired satisfaction
Article written by L’Equipe de ReKrute.com
