Haifaa Younis – Jannah Gems #43 – Definition of Emotional Intelligence

			So the meaning of emotional intelligence is pretty simple. It means to be able to first identify
your own emotions, right? So you can pinpoint what you're feeling in the moment. And, and really
source it in a way. You know, I had someone, for example mentioned yesterday during a class that she
struggles with anger and how to control anger. And so, you know, the discussion that followed was me
explaining to her that anger is really a secondary emotion. And there's usually an underlying
emotion. So this is what we mean by being able to identify our emotions, and really source them,
like, Where's this coming from? Why am I triggered? Right? Because there usually is a lot of
		

			different reasons. But we're just, if we don't do that process, then we're not able to identify
those things. And then we get frustrated, and a lot of miscommunication can happen. So to identify
and then manage one's emotion. So it's one thing to know, right? what you're feeling and thinking
and why it's happening. It's another thing to be able to control to practice restraint, or what we
refer to as IFA right temperance, to be able to just regulate yourself, that's a whole other thing.
And it's a very powerful, you know, skill to have, it can prevent a lot of harm. So, identifying,
managing one's own emotions, and then doing the same thing for other people. So this is the most
		

			simple definition of what emotional intelligence offers someone and it is quite powerful even though
the meanings are simple, the actual implementation of it and and the benefit of it are