Human beings live constantly surrounded by our own and other people’s emotions. In the field of healthy social relationships our task is to know how to identify them, analyze them, understand them and act accordingly and in a relatively adaptive way, although this is not always easy.
In fact, emotional management is sometimes a much more complex task than it seems at first glance and in which some people find it difficult.
Educating possible emotional deficits in people who need it (and of any age) becomes an essential objective, since only in this way will they be able to overcome their limitations and recurring mistakes that they may make on an emotional level in their daily life.
Emotional education is an area of ​​psychology that has been widely studied in recent decades and consists of working on and teaching those competencies and skills necessary to satisfactorily manage one’s own or others’ emotions.
Taking into account that emotional education is of great importance to relate correctly to the environment, let’s review its main benefits
What are the benefits that emotional education gives us?
In the educational field, emotional education has an increasingly specific weight thanks to the large number of advantages and positive aspects it brings to the person who goes through it. Below we highlight the most important ones.
1. Educate about prejudices
In the world of human relationships and emotions, there are a series of prejudices about the experimentation and expression of emotions that can only be successfully overcome thanks to good emotional education, especially in childhood and adolescence.
For example, people who justify stereotypes linked to gender roles and the belief that there are emotions or feelings typical of men or women present unequivocal signs of poor emotional education.
Fortunately, it is possible to free oneself from these prejudices through an educational process in which the person learns that everyone can experience all types of emotions, and there is no problem with that.
2. Identification of emotions
As has been indicated, the identification of emotions is one of the essential elements that are involved in emotional education. This consists of being able to recognize those emotions, both your own and those of others, that may be negative or generate discomfort in the individual who feels them.
Whether they are positive or negative emotions, knowing how to recognize them and being able to express them with words helps us know ourselves better both to us and to the people around us. This phenomenon is known as “emotional tagging.”
An example of the great usefulness of good emotion identification consists of expressing negative emotions that may be linked to bad memories, traumas or anxiety situations. Knowing how to identify them correctly can help us overcome these emotional difficulties.
3. Makes it possible to measure the progress achieved
With emotional intelligence, Many people are able to incorporate a series of essential social skills into their daily lives to relate to their environment adaptively and achieve the desired success with each interaction.
In addition to that, this process of emotional education also allows us to assess the achievements that have been acquired and have a general perspective of the path taken by the person on an emotional level from the beginning to the completion of the same process.
4. Helps detect self-esteem problems
Another of the most notable benefits that emotional education offers directly affects people’s level of self-esteem and consists of the detection of possible problems or deficiencies associated with it
Learning to recognize one’s own emotions is a good way to detect self-esteem deficits in oneself, which constitutes a starting point to begin to overcome this and other difficulties and achieve a higher level of self-esteem.
In the same way, Identifying those positive aspects of one’s own person has a positive impact on increasing one’s self-esteem a fact that has a positive impact on all levels of the individual, both personally and in their social relationships.
5. Improvement of interpersonal relationships
One of the main objectives of emotional education is to provide people with useful tools to relate correctly with the people around them.
Understanding the emotions, intentions and feelings of others helps us to be able to connect with them relatively quickly a fact that positively influences the emotional or friendly relationships that we may establish in the future.
6. Learning to argue
People with little or no emotional education are usually more likely to become angry during an argument of any kind with people around them, whether they are close friends, a couple or a family member.
Emotional education teaches us to correctly manage our emotions in any area of ​​our life, also in discussions or in moments of tension where you are most likely to lose your composure.
Concepts such as discussion management, modulation of emotional reactions or frustration tolerance are highly developed concepts both at a theoretical and practical level in the field of emotional management.
7. Increase self-awareness
As has been indicated, emotional education helps us both to better understand others and to understand ourselves and our own emotional experiences
It is evident that people who are able to successfully detect their own emotions also usually know how to confront or overcome negative emotions and likewise how to achieve more positive emotional states.
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Empathy is the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes, as well as to understand what you are feeling, what your emotions are or what you are going through in the present moment
This emotional competence is essential to be able to communicate with other people successfully and is one of the classic skills of emotional education.
And without being able to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes or understand their situation, we will never be able to successfully carry out a relationship of any kind, whether friendship, emotional, family or work.
Related article: “Empathy, much more than putting yourself in someone else’s shoes”
9. Emotional Autonomy
Emotional autonomy is another of the fundamental elements belonging to the field of emotional education and consists of the ability to not feel excessively affected by events that generate a potentially destabilizing emotional impact.
Achieve enough freedom to live our emotions autonomously and without being influenced by anyone is just as important as having enough sensitivity to identify the feelings and emotions of others.
10. It brings out Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can be summarized as the set of all the elements mentioned above, from the recognition of one’s own or others’ emotions to the ability to achieve effective social interaction in the emotional field
Emotional intelligence consists, more specifically, of managing emotions adapted to the context in which we operate. This means making use of intelligence that has a positive impact on our well-being or that of those around us.
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