The Four Branches Of Emotional Intelligence

1. Perception Appraisal and Expression of Emotion.
2. Emotional Facilitation of Thinking.
3. Emotional Understanding and Analyzing Emotions; Employing Emotional Knowledge.
4. Emotional Management

1. Perception Appraisal and Expression of Emotion

• The ability to perceive and identify emotions in faces, tone of voice, body language.
• The capacity for self-awareness: being aware of your own feelings as they are occurring.
• The capacity for emotional literacy. Being able to label specific feelings in yourself and others; being able to discuss emotions and communicate clearly and directly.

2. Emotional facilitation of Thinking

• The ability to incorporate feelings into analysis, reasoning, problem solving

and decision making.

• The potential of your feelings to guide you to what is important to think about.

3. Emotional understanding

• The ability to solve emotional problems.
• The ability to identify and understand the inter-relationships between emotions, thoughts and behavior. For example, to see cause and effect relationships such as how thoughts can affect emotions or how emotions can affect thoughts, and how your emotions can lead to the behavior in yourself and others.
• The ability to understand the value of emotions to the survival of the species.

4. Emotional management

• The ability to take responsibility for one’s own emotions and happiness.
• The ability to turn negative emotions into positive learning and growing opportunities.
• Ability to reflectively monitor emotions in relation to oneself and others, such as recognizing how clear, typical, influential or reasonable they are.
•  Ability to reflectively engage or detach from an emotion depending upon its judged informativeness or utility.
• Ability to stay open to feelings, both those that are pleasant and those that are unpleasant.