Sam Dailey (Own Your Emotions)

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Sam is a certified Growth Mode Coach and Finance and Technology expert who helps professionals find balance and joy in their careers. Drawing on his extensive experience leading wo...

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Can this practice help us understand others better?

You can also apply this to others. Although you can't feel others' emotions, sometimes you can sense them and you can use the same practise of accepting other people's emotions rather than judging them or fighting against them.

How can we define emotional awareness?

So emotional awareness can be thought of as a simplified and an embodied emotional intelligence. I like to define emotional awareness as how we feel and relate to our own emotions and the emotions of others, and the journey to do so in a way that leads us to an empowering and productive place.

What is the first principle of emotional awareness?

The first principle of emotional awareness is that all emotions are valid, all emotions are valid, and it sounds like a really simple claim, but it's a really powerful one as well. To help you experience it, I would like to take you through a quick little live experiment to help you feel this principle. So you can join me if you'd like in closing your eyes, or you can lower your gaze towards the ground. And let's do a quick scan of our body, checking for what emotions we can feel present. You can start in your stomach area, move to your chest, move to your shoulders, your jaw, your temples, and your mind, and ask yourself what emotions are present, and can you be an observer of the emotions? Not judging them, not rejecting them, but simply watching them, accepting them as valid. Whatever is present, you can open your eyes whenever you're ready. This sort of experiment and experience can be really powerful in reminding yourself to check in with your emotions, reminding yourself that they take place in your body, not just in your mind, in validating that whatever you're feeling, it's okay. There's no such thing as a right emotion or a wrong emotion.