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Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being

By Tori Rodriguez — 2013

Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental health

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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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Author Harvey Deutschendorf: Emotional Intelligence; What It Is, Why It Is So Essential, And How We Can Increase It

We normally think of intelligence as cognitive intelligence, which is measured by IQ. Our emotional intelligence is looking at how our emotions effect everything that we do and think. We feel before we think.

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Why Science Says Emotionally Intelligent People Follow the Rule of No Complaints

When something bad happens, venting can actually make you feel worse--for days.

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Why Emotional Self-Control Matters

Releasing anger and frustration can actually help you regain control over a hectic day or win back productivity after feeling frazzled. But you have to do it with awareness.

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Emotional and Mental Health