Emotional Intelligence has become an increasingly important factor over the past two decades.  Researchers have provided a wealth of information on the importance of EQ and the problems associated with emotional illiteracy.  Unfortunately the information has not given practical recommendation for how to achieve greater emotional fitness and improve our emotional intelligence.

Warren Redman, founder of the Emotional Fitness Institute, has developed a tool kit to do just that, and a certified Emotional Fitness Coach can help to guide you towards Emotional Fitness. This process opens the door to self-awareness and helps to identify the satisfactions and frustrations in your life, allowing you to learn from your experience, evaluate what is working for you and what isn’t and take the actions that will help you to have the life you desire.

The key to Emotional Fitness is Listening Power.  In the ebb and flow of our daily conversations we are rarely truly heard by others. Listening Power provides an opportunity for the speaker to hear themselves as their ideas are mirrored back and questions help to clarify what they are saying, leading to a deeper understanding for the speaker and the listener.

The next tool, Learning from Experience, offers the opportunity to develop a portfolio of experiences and to understand what has been learned from them. Using Listening Power the coach can help to uncover knowledge you have and to find your own answers to your questions.

The core tool of Emotional Fitness is the Lifescale which helps you to discover the balance of satisfactions and frustrations in your life and to develop actions to improve that balance if you want to. The questions combined with Listening Power lead to an understanding of what you feel and why you feel it, allowing you to turn frustrations into satisfactions.

The Time Capsule allows you to connect with your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual self in a process that will help you to understand why you react the way you do and connect you with your authentic self.  This connection with yourself will have a positive effect on all of your relationships.

The Group Dialogue is a tool that you can learn to use with any group of people that wants to share ideas or deal with problems in a productive way. It can help you to teach others how to listen and understand different perspectives.

Storytelling is a way to gather your own stories in a way that will help you to understand your past and present and lead you to the future you desire.  Storytelling can uncover unrecognized aspects of yourself and increase your comfort level in describing who you are what you have to offer.

Dreamtime is a powerful tool for understanding your dreams. The symbols in your dreams are unique to you and you can learn to access the knowledge that your dreams contain.

The Mirror is a tool that is used when even deeper self awareness is desired.  We often wonder how we know if we are making progress or not and look to others for confirmation. Through the Mirror, we can look to ourselves for the answer.

Connections is a tool that is effective after a deeper level of self awareness has been attained. By choosing a symbol that connects everything that has been learned about yourself you can understand how you achieved balance and how to maintain it as you move forward in life.

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