WHY EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IS IMPORTANT
- Emotional Intelligence is our ability to understand and manage our emotions as well as to recognize and empathize with the emotion of others .
- Highly emotional intelligence lead to more resilience which help us manage change and stressful times.
- Emotional intelligence has been liked with self - awareness and positive academic ,social and health outcomes .
- Emotional intelligence hugely helpful in intimate partner relationships as it increases our ability to communicate well, compromise and see the other person perspective .
HOW TO INCREASE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 
- Check in regularly with how you are feeling .
- Pay attention to the link between situations, experiences ,thoughts your beliefs and how they lead to certain feelings.
- Question entrenched ideas about how things 'should 'be and try to be open to differences of opinion.
- Work on improving your communication and being more assertive.
- Try and put yourself in other peoples shoes and think about how they might be feeling .
- Improve your relationship with yourself by working on your self esteem , self perception .
- Practice to maintain a positive attitude.
- Active listen skill
