Emotional Skills: 25 Skills That Improve Your Life
What are emotional life skills? How are they related to your well-being and how do you start building these important skills?
There are many types of emotional skills (also sometimes referred to as emotional intelligence). By building these emotional skills — skills like emotion regulation, empathy, and kindness — you can more easily increase your happiness and well-being. Check out the variety of emotional skills below to learn how you can build these skills and improve your life.
There are many types of emotional skills (also sometimes referred to as emotional intelligence). By building these emotional skills — skills like emotion regulation, empathy, and kindness — you can more easily increase your happiness and well-being. Check out the variety of emotional skills below to learn how you can build these skills and improve your life.
Positive Thinking
This emotional skill involves the ability to see the good, the bad... everything in a more positive light.
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Happiness Planning
This emotional skill refers to having a solid and effective plan for how to achieve happiness.
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Resiliency
This emotional skill involves being able to quickly recover and thrive in the face of difficulties.
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Ability to Stop Worrying
This skill involves to being able to stop worrying about real or perceived events.
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Empathy
This skill refers to being able to put yourself in other people's shoes and feel what they are feeling.
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Gratitude
This skill refers to being thankful for the people, things, and experiences you have.
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Reappraisal Ability
This skill refers to changing the way you feel about a situation by changing the way you think about it.
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A Positive Attitude
This skill involves to being able to find the positives or see the silver lining in negative situations.
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Relationship Skills
This skill is about being able to have emotionally positive interactions with other people.
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Kindness
This skill is about being able to treat people from all walks of life with kindness.
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Personal Growth
This skill is about being motivated to continue to improve and develop the self.
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Life Purpose
This skill refers to being able to figure out and pursue what gives you a sense of meaning in life.
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Emotional Expression
This skill is about being able to show and share your true, authentic self with others.
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Behavioral Regulation
This skill refers to being able to resist unhealthy behaviors to cope with your negative emotions.
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Avoidance Behavior
This skill is about being able to approach, versus avoid, new or scary life experiences.
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Self Empowerment
This skill is about being able to make your own decisions and live your life as you see fit.
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Assertiveness
This skill refers to being able to communicate your needs effectively so that they can be met.
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Emotion Regulation Skills
This skill refers to being able to manage and control emotions in ways that optimize well-being.
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Emotional Clarity
This skill involves being clear about which emotions you are feeling and why you are feeling them.
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Ability to Stop Rumination
This emotional skill involves being able to stop repetitive negative thought processes.
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Non-Judgement
This skill refers to being able to accept your emotions non-judgmentally.
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Personal Development
This emotional skill involves being able to successfully progress towards you goal of improving yourself.
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Planning Ability
This skill is about being able to organize your life in ways that help you build the other skills.
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Rejection Tolerance
This skill involves being able to maintain positive self views even in the face of social rejection.
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Self Confidence
This emotional skill refers to having positive views of yourself and your own self-worth.
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