• April 26, 2024

It is proven: people with greater emotional intelligence are able to cope better with stress states, and manage situations that do not affect their daily lives so much. This follows from an investigation carried out by a group of scholars of the University of Jaén (Spain).

The team, led by the professor of Psychology Esther López Zafra , verified this relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being, by working with groups that are subject to greater daily work stress, such as health and teaching workers.

This research was recently published in one of the most impacting journals in Psychology: Journal of Happyness Studies , but there is still more on the subject of stress and its emotional impact.

According to the portal Excellence.com , emotional intelligence helps you to recognize your feelings and emotions, as well as to use them to improve your personal relationships.

The important thing is to have the ability to recognize the emotions and use them for their own benefit, to achieve the goals and strengthen their values. It may seem difficult to control stress, but if you know 100% you will have the tools to achieve it.

How to identify and deal with stress

Stress is an interactive process in which the demands of the circumstance and the resources of the individual intervene to face them. We can not always change them -although subjective assessment can modify their impact on the organism-, but we can increase our resources.

A good option, add experts in the field, is to increase the amount of nutrients we give our nervous system and ingest adaptogens, that is, plants that improve the physiological functions of the body and increase resistance to adverse influences.

When you are in a very tense situation, breathe, take a few minutes and analyze the circumstances, identify how it affects you and stimulate your emotional intelligence. And you, how much do you know your body and its emotions?

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