How to Be a Better Friend: Tap Into Emotional Data
Gather emotional data.
"Emotional data" is the pure sensory information that our emotional antennas pick up. Analyzing our emotional data allows us to accept the reality of the current situation with our relationships and make the best decisions guided by our emotional wisdom.
Learn from emotional wisdom.
You have a wealth of ever-changing emotional data, and so does your friend. If we can find a way to utilize it, we can make better, emotionally woke decisions. Finding out your friend's emotional data will be your superpower to better understand how to communicate with them.
Act in an emotionally informed way.
We often erroneously believe that making someone aware of our feelings means getting into long explanations, asking for help, or becoming a burden. In reality, we become burdensome to our friends when we withhold emotional data from them.
Without giving an explanation, we can make our friends aware of our emotions in just a few seconds. With a bit of practice, we can even get better at finding out theirs. Sharing our top emotions with others can connect us deeply in less than 10 seconds. To strengthen your friendships, make your friends aware of your emotions and find out theirs. You will be coming from a place of deep connection and empathy.
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Reflection:
Do you analyze emotional data in your relationships?
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@comfortableNight4463
I am fairly good at picking up the emotional signs beyond what others are saying the tone/ the items that may not add up without the emotional element.....
but many i feel are masters at hiding or obscuring that data for most to see..
It is tough in this world. I feel as if people want to keep a guard up more than ever. And then rather practice coming off resilient, tough, independent, and too expressive to the point of obscurity. Then they may feel alone. It's very easy to get wrapped up in our own worlds now. But, you just have to keep notice of the people that do reciprocate the appropriate responses.
