Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, I'm going to be talking about

mastering your emotions, part one. This is a very important video that I've been meaning to shoot now for a while and I wanted to do it right.

So I decided to split it up into a couple of parts here.

And basically what we're going to be talking about in this series is getting you a much deeper

understanding of your emotions, helping you to build an emotional vocabulary, and getting you to understand how emotions function in your life.

The thing that really inspired me and kind of prompted me to want to shoot this video is because you know I work with

clients in coaching sessions and one of the things I discover with clients is that when I try to get them to

talk about their emotions,

they usually end up drawing a blank.

And what this shows me is that they have a very, very, very, very,

very limited emotional vocabulary.

And so I started thinking like, oh man,

you know, it's hard to even coach these people

because they can't even assign just basic labels to the feelings that they have in their body in different situations in their lives.

And because of this, they're basically unconscious to what's happening in their body and how these

emotions are dominating and controlling their lives. And so what I find is that in

general most people are this way. Most people have poor emotional vocabulary. They don't have a rich diversity of emotions that they're able to feel and they're able to identify. They're not

really able to talk about the emotions that they have, which creates problems.

And in general most people are quite clueless about what emotions are and exactly how they function.

So I wanted to dive into that here.

Basically what we're talking about here throughout this whole series of videos is emotional intelligence.

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