May 6, 2009This Week in the World ~ Twitter, emotional awareness and skill, new article
I’m a newbie on Twitter. That’s a social networking site that gives you 140 characters to answer the question: “what are you doing,” throughout the day. It has me thinking in sound-bytes.
If I invented a social media site, I’d include the questions, “What are you feeling?” and “What are you thinking?” Why? Because we could use the practice.
In my communication seminars, I ask people to formulate phrases starting with “I think,” “I feel,” and “I want.” It’s amazing how often people flunk the feeling part. Even my amazing group of counselors last week confused thought and feeling.
Perhaps if our social media strategy included emotional disclosure, we’d develop the emotional awareness and communication skill to handle life’s challenges.
For example, an acquaintance with aggressive breast cancer has an eerie detachment from her situation. She says she refuses to go into fear – implying the only alternative to fear is no feeling at all. Her detachment seems to be as big of an obstacle to decisive action as fear was in the people I lost to cancer.
Emotions exist to give you pleasure when things are good, to motivate you when they’re not, and to let you connect authentically with others. Why would you want to short-circuit that?
You have an amazing range of feelings. Develop your EQ – your Emotional Intelligence.
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Quick. What are you thinking, feeling and doing?
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