Emotional wellness is defined as coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships.
- Goals for your Emotional Wellness
- Become more aware of your feelings and accept them as valid indicators of what you are experiencing
- Develop the ability to experience and appropriately express a wide range of emotions such as humor, joy, fear, anger, frustration, appreciation, sadness, etc.
- Develop assertiveness and confrontation skills
- Develop positive feelings about yourself by instituting healthy self-esteem and self-concept
- Develop the skills to handle stress, irritations, crises, etc.
- Explore and clarify your own sexual identity
- Develop, establish, and maintain intimate and loving relationships.
Emotional Wellness Quotes
1. “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.”
– Eric Jensen
2. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.”
– Dale Carnegie
3. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
– Daniel Goleman
4. “It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of Intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over the head. It is the unique intersection of both.”
– David Caruso
5. If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.”
– Eckhart Tolle
6. “Emotional Intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.”
– Unknown
7. “We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but no one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.”
– Edith Eger
8. “What really matters for success, character, happiness, and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”
– Daniel Goleman
9. “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us out in marching onward.”
– Henry Ford
10. “It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.”
– Demi Lovato
11 . “Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, but it will also improve our own emotional well-being.”
– Debbie Macomber
12. “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
– Dale Carnegie
13. “When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”
– Jess C. Scott
14. Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.
– Robert K. Cooper
15. “Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”
– Louise Hart
6. “Not only does exercise keep the body young, but it also keeps the mind vital and promotes emotional well-being. The important thing is to start off slowly, find physical activities you enjoy, and do them regularly.”
– Deepak Chopra
17. “I am a master at setting boundaries that protect my time, energy, creativity, and emotional well-being.”
– Cheryl Richardson
18. “I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me, it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.”
– Andrew Weil
19. Right now at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
– Howard Cutler
20. Seek out that particular mental attribute that makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
– William James
21. “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
22. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
– Daniel Goleman
23. ‘Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.”
– Molly Bahr
24. “Through the vehicle of our emotions, our mind, body, and spirit are sending signals that something has to shift.”
– Randy Taran
25. “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.”
– Eric Jensen
