Neither past nor Future, but the Present.
Be a cosmonaut who embraces the technology to glide through clouds of emotions and thoughts
“An experience begins as an emotion and remains as a thought in our memory.”
Elevating the experiences of our peers begins with enhancing our own. Emotions and thoughts are driving forces that help us glide in our day to day lives. They sway our actions — getting up from sleep in the morning to who we would be tomorrow and everything in between. They also add up to the way we experience our surroundings. An experience begins as an emotion and remains as a thought in our memory.
I remember a few tangled experiences from my treasure of memories, wherein emotions and thoughts make me fly in alien skies. During school, with neighboring classes of my grade, we used to walk on the line while returning to class from the playground. After reaching class, I realized how I swapped lines when lost in thoughts and ended up being in a different class. Later on, as I grew to be in college, I was busy fiddling with thoughts in the midst of running for the ball during our inter-club football match and collided with one of our opponents. I was flying for real, except had a bad landing and broke my shoulder. That’s not the end of this series, both tangible and intangible collisions were effects of the cause — not being present in the present and superfluously turning up against the clock.
For most of us, fantasizing about how things “should be” and “should’ve been” is a constant source of anguish rather than contentment. We are constantly thwarted by our expectations, resulting in a paucity of involvement in actions that we perform and will be performing.
Stimuli
Our environment plays a vital role in shaping us; stimulating emotions and thoughts within. This information we gather from people around us is the basis of our actions, saving it in our memory for using this knowledge in the future. But what we make out of this information is up to us. Without processing it consciously, we are like a pinball controlled by our surroundings. Being a pinball, we may face a lot of snags on our way, from discord with our friends & colleagues to dissonance with ourselves
The Era of the Internet
Living in the era of the internet, we have access to different expressions of people like never before. In turn, the consumption of this information plays a crucial role in shaping the way we feel and think. The more connected now we are with the world, we have to start thinking responsibly on how do we consume this humungous collection of information. I’ll be sharing in-depth insights on whys and wherefores of perception in my next story.
Acing Emotional Intelligence
Our thought process takes form based on the everyday activities we choose for our minds. Acing at Emotional Intelligence (EI) is to identify and interact with different expressions effectively and constructively, both individually and in groups.
Since childhood, we have been conditioning ourselves to improve our Intelligence quotient (IQ). We believed, higher IQs portray having a better understanding, learning, and cognitive skills. But it turns out these are bootless beliefs. Emotional Intelligence plays a vital role in our ability to understand, learn, and interact as it is a part of our mind which we can keep enhancing although IQ remains moderately stationary throughout our lives.
Being emotionally intelligent doesn’t stop us from having unfavorable emotions and thoughts. Instead, we become perceptive and aptly identify which ones to value. It is a process which amalgamates personal skills as well as social skills. Acing Emotional Intelligence helps us have a profound experience of ourselves and our surroundings.
Enhancing EI starts with building your skills to discover, analyze, value, and interact. N:OW is the time to take joystick in your hands and embrace freedom. Here’s the technology that helped to maneuver my emotions and thoughts.
• Augmenting cognizance to discover & analyze
“Practicing self-awareness make our minds discover & analyze experiences.”
From fire to a cheese grater, discovering functional aspects of our surroundings has helped us maneuver them the way we want it. Becoming aware enables us to identify why certain emotions or thoughts occurred, individually and in groups. This assessment helps us run the show and give a hand while contemplating which ones to value. Awareness starts with staying still on and on, which can be difficult sometimes. Our appetite for productivity has made us forget to breathe and stay still. Staying online for a long time has made our body stay-still, now the next stride would be to switch off all the gadgets and be with our minds while it is wandering. Start paying attention to the way we feel and live in-present to the fullest.
With time, practicing self-awareness makes our mind discover & analyze experiences. Coming to senses is the first step towards our destination. Once we’ve known how things around us behave and when our engines are all fired up, it’s time to elevate.
• Elevating affinity to value & interact
“Your expression is an experience for your peers.”
We all share the principles of what makes us humans. As we can chime in with different emotions and thoughts now, knowing our peers is a no-brainer. The key to understanding them is by being able to listen and share honestly.
Over the years, giving ears to our peers would help us develop good ears. This interaction can be complete only when you share your tales with them. Your expression is an experience for your peers. Competence in social skills guide us to become a great leader and helps us showcase charismatic traits by being influential and persuasive. Managing conflicts and collaborating feels like a cakewalk.
“Over the years, giving ears to our peers would help us develop good ears.”
Being able to value & interact with peers adds up to our confidence and self-esteem we’ve earned by being self-aware. By now, we’ve touched the infinite skies.
Staying electrified
Now that we’ve known the technology to fire up the engines and elevate, its time to glide the skies on and on. Once we discover the intrinsic rewards tagged to this journey is when we plan on never returning to where we started. I wish you keep gliding through this never-ending journey. These are some emotions and thoughts that popped out of my mind, intending to keep your engines fueled.
Peep behind to embrace fears;
Goofy, naive, for you to tame,
This iffy drama might bring tears;
To help you slide a new ballgame.Peek ahead to know the unknown;
Artistic, infinite, for you to explore,
Just watch the seeds you’ve sown;
Until your boat outgrows the shore.Peep, peek or squeak;
Now is what helps you glue an applique,
Sticking days before and after, inerrant;
Makes me dream of,
Neither past nor future, but the present.
