Excessive emotionality can prevent you from making decisions and controlling some of your words and actions. However, a lack of emotionality can negatively affect self-awareness and relationships with others. You can open your ability to feel better about yourself and other people if you work on yourself.
Instructions
Step 1
Pay attention to your own emotions. It is important to record the feelings that you are experiencing and to comprehend why they have arisen. Ignoring or suppressing your own emotions can greatly hinder self-understanding.
Step 2
Take the first steps towards understanding other people: learn to listen and observe. Do not think out for those around you. This is how you project your worldview onto them. To develop emotional intelligence, it is worth accepting someone else's worldview, or at least striving for this acceptance.
Step 3
Try to communicate more with people, establish strong emotional ties with them. Do not be afraid to open your soul to those people who are dear to you.
Step 4
Find self-expression in creativity. A hobby will help you not only develop in any skill or skill. Passion for your soul can take your emotions to a new level, teach you to better understand yourself.
Step 5
Don't be afraid to appear vulnerable or weak. Sometimes an individual hides feelings even from himself in order to maintain a mask of impenetrability. Remember that this behavior not only interferes with a full, happy life, but also negatively affects your body.
Step 6
Watch dramas and melodramas and read sentimental literature. Perhaps, observing the experiences and feelings of the heroes, you will draw parallels with your own life and reveal in yourself those emotions that were deeply hidden. And remember, there is no shame in crying while watching a moving movie or reading a very sad book.
Step 7
Chat with children. Their immediacy can teach you how to become more emotional. By observing how little ones do not hesitate to express their feelings and desires, how they understand and accept their own emotions, you too can find a way to your heart.
Step 8
Get a pet. Living in the neighborhood with a playful kitten or a funny puppy can touch in your soul previously unknown feelings, teach you to rejoice for no reason and appreciate simple communication with your pet.
Step 9
Take up an extreme sport. Perhaps that kind of push is needed to awaken your emotions. Skydiving, climbing, learning diving, surfing or other sports will give you a fresh perspective on life and shake you up.
