Tips to Enhance Emotional Intelligence with Calming Exercises
29mGeneral2024-11-08
Authors

Nidhi Tewari
Course details
Our internal state dictates the way that we show up and interact with the world around us. This includes managing not only feelings of excitement but also moments of stress and overwhelm. In this course, mental health and well-being expert Nidhi Tewari outlines a series of exercises that can help you identify and regulate your emotions in order to manage stress, increase your emotional intelligence, and boost your capacity to interact with others with self-awareness. Nidhi guides you through techniques such as fine-tuning neuroception and interoception, identifying and interrupting emotional triggers, using 4-7-8 breathing to manage strong emotions, and leveraging the relationship between emotions, thoughts, and actions. By the end of this course, you’ll have developed greater self-awareness to recognize signs of stress long before they overwhelm you.
Skills covered
Emotional IntelligenceWell-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
The Foundations of Emotional Regulation and Self-Awareness
- Learn the two essential skills for emotional regulation
- Connect to your five senses to build emotional intelligence
- Connect mind and body by pausing to observe
- Tune your neuroception and interoception with self-inquiry
- Identify and interrupt your emotional triggers
Skills for Physical Calm
- Practice 4-7-8 breathing to help regulate strong emotions
- Complete a body scan to help regulate strong emotions
- Ground yourself to help regulate strong emotions
Skills for Shifting Your Emotions
- Practice the spiral technique to shift your emotional state
- Observe vs. judging emotions to shift your emotional state
- Connect thoughts, feelings, and actions to shift your state
- Challenge unhelpful thoughts to shift your emotional state