5. Express Emotions:

Until we fully release our emotions, they continue to affect our present mindset.

• Do anger work. Allow yourself to be fully disappointed, sad or depressed. Talk about it.
• Write a letter. Purging emotions out on paper give them a place to live outside of yourself.

Identify your emotions with compassion.

Compassion allows you to foster a safe space inside of you, a space in which you feel capable of taking more risks: you’re ready to analyze and explore the world and you know that if things don’t go right, everything is still ok.

Developing emotional intelligence doesn’t mean denying your feelings. Your emotions are never wrong. They are there to support you, so be honest about how you feel. When you learn to validate your own feelings, you’re better able to validate others’ emotions, which is a key component of practicin...