I find my transformation from a totally emotional being to a controlled emotional person quite an improvement in my emotional intelligence levels. I now can use logical reasoning to get me out of an emotional fall. A person like me who as a kid has been quite sensitive and also aggressive mentally rather ruthless it is s a serious hamper this emotional pulldown. But i've figured that our mind is an amazing learner, through logical reasoning that gets better with introspection and retrospection.
I believe that our mind has two faces to itself. A logical one and an emotional one. Some people are bestowed with the logical mind taking a stronger foothold and as such are better decision makers when stumped with an emotional situation or a situation of the heart. The emotional mind is what determines the person's sensitivity to poetry, art, love, affection and all the nuances in life. The logical mind to me determines the career decision making, analzye mathematical problems, weigh advantages and disadvantages of any sort in a non-biased manner. Basically any reasoning that is derived out of pure merits/demerits without being biased by any previous remnants in the mind, unless derived from a prior experience would be logical.
An person emotionally tilted tends to make erroneous decisions when faced with a problem related to heart/an emotionational situation or stays immobile and puts off decision making or gets clouded by his emotions.
I've found that if the logical counterpart of your mind is able to win over the emotional part through constant persuasion or coaxing or a battle I find that I am able to get over any emotional complication. In fact it gets me back on track and analyze my situation from a neutral standpoint and am able to go over the incidents back again in a non-prejudiced manner, which is basically my style of introspection & retrospection.
Once the logical mind kicks one starts thinking rationally and any outbursts that would've otherwise happened get curbed, any decision that tends to get put off, gets taken care of, the mental lethargy/inertia which manifests as a procrastination gets collared.
In fact a lot of opportunities get missed by a person who is depressed simply because in his emotional state of mind, he fails to notice it and take advantage of it. A successful person on the other hand in such an emotional state still has his logical section of his mind actively working and curbing his negative thoughts that gushes from the emotional mind.
A lot of the meditation and prayer techniques do work towards helping us find opportunities in the name of God/Religion. My feeling that this technique works, by just diverting your mind towards a positive belief (the belief in religion/god) and it kind diverts the mind's attention away from depressing/negative thoughts.
Our mind seems to be surprisingly single-threaded (single tasking at any instance). So any instant of time the mind can be only in one train of thought. True we switch back and forth. But the amount of time that mind spends in the depression/negative thought train, causes a catalytic or rather a chain reaction of negative feelings that is really detrimental. So the prayer/meditation techniques really take up the time that the mind otherwise would're resorted to travelling along the negative line and provide a relief.
If one were able to kick back the logical thinking counterpart back in action, it would serve better to quell negative thoughts and what more you would be able to get over any trauma/emotional situation on your own. True you would'nt be able to get a switch on control which would be ideal, but you would be able to bring up the logical counterpart who could coax/battle away the emotional one.
More such amusing musings....
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