Offbeat Spirituality

This write-up deals with handling emotional intelligence using spirituality & mindfulness .  Emotional intelligence is understanding your emotions creatively and using intelligence to mold them in a positive way. It makes you the kind of person you are. It encapsulates how you think, react or behave in certain situations in life. It works day and night to give colour to your personality.  Do you remember the Will Smith — Chris Rock incident at the recent Oscars? A supposedly brilliant and well-educated person lost his credibility in a moment. No amount of experience came to his rescue when he instinctively reacted to a joke. And while you can call the behavior lapse of judgement, the power of emotions cannot be denied. For what we are, they remain a very strong source of energy in the pursuit of us becoming human beings. However, we have still not been able to harness the power of emotional intelligence. As a society, we continue to focus on education, knowledge, and expe...