Is Emotional Intelligence the solution?

Since the pandemic is being more prolonged, the emotional challenge is increasing around the world,  everyone is experiencing very high distress. I believe this is the right time to learn the skills of emotional intelligence. In this world of rising fear and uncertainty, we all need to grow more insight and skills to manage our own and other’s emotions.

Noticing feelings, naming your emotions, and reflecting on how we can use emotions to make life better. 

How will we grasp the optimal benefit for all of us?

When we are trapped in pessimism, it feels as if there are no options. While sometimes it is reasonable and useful to be sad and scared, and even helpless or desperate, how can we solve the problem if we stay in that state? The secret to optimism is to empower us to feel those feelings that define the problem, and then to create new options for finding solutions.

Also, I would like to add that optimism is not the same as “positive thinking,” neither it is based on ignoring problems. True optimism expects us to face the fact with the belief that we can find solutions.

Hina Baik