We can’t control our emotions, but we can control how we respond to them. That’s the power of emotional intelligence, to be able to better manage what we do with how we feel in the moment in order to be productive rather than destructive. The issue is that so many of us haven’t been provided the education or tools to deal with our own emotions or those of others, which creates a lot of tension in many social issues today.The process of becoming more emotionally intelligent is simple, but difficult to master: Awareness Acceptance Action (or not)It starts by slowing down so that you can become aware of your emotions and what it means for you. Then we can embrace how we’re feeling, to acknowledge its presence, so that we can start taking steps to do (or not to do) something with it.In this episode, my guest Matt Perelstein of EQ4Peace shares his passion for emotional intelligence education as we nerd out about how to use this as a tool to train our emotional muscles for both internal and external peace.-------------------------------------Timestamps:[[[[[[[[[-------------------------------------Resources:http://mattperelstein.com/http://eq4peace.org/4,000 feeling words to increase emotional vocabulary: http://eqi.org/fw.htm-------------------------------------Send me a voice message with anything thoughts, feedback, praise, takeaways, or stories you want to share with this podcast at http://victorung.com/podcast.Subscribe to get your free list of 11 Emotional Intelligence exercises and to get updates on this podcast and blog at http://victorung.com/subscribe.Schedule a Discovery coaching call with me to personally work on building your emotional resiliency: http://victorung.com.Become a Patron to support this content: http://patreon.com/humanup.Clap for me on my blog on Medium: http://medium.com/@victorung.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/victorung/message