Build Emotional Literacy Feelings are a complex aspect of every person. These emotions blend and merge, and frequently they conflict. This EQ fundamental helps us sort out all of those feelings, name them, and begin to understand their causes and effects. The human brain follows patterns, or neural pathways.
Stimulus leads to response, and over time, the response becomes nearly automatic.
On a behavioral level, the neural patterns lead to behavior patterns. At a young age, we learn lessons of how to cope, how to get our needs met, how to protect ourselves. These strategies reinforce one another, and we develop a complex structure of beliefs to support the validity of the behaviors. It can be as simple as a six second pause to allow the conscious brain to begin to intervene in the pattern. All rights reserved.