Emotional stability — endurance; a person is emotionally mature, calm, stable in interests, hard-working, can be rigid, focused on reality, he is not hurt by annoying little things.
The opposite of emotional stability is emotional instability — impulsiveness, a person is influenced by feelings, changeable in moods, easily upset, unstable in interests. Low tolerance for frustration, irritability, fatigue. Characteristic for Asthenic and Labile type.
Emotional stability in the work of an employee can be assessed on the following scale: (-2) Emotions control. Avoids the demands of reality, neurotic fatigued, irritable, emotionally excitable. (-1) Sensitive, emotionally unstable, easily upset. (0) 50/50 can evaluate situations rationally, often making emotional judgments. (1) Emotionally stable, soberly assessing reality, active, mature. In most cases, the situation evaluates rationally. (2) Emotionally mature, stable, unflappable. Able to soberly rationally assess complex situations and work efficiently under stress.
How to improve emotional stability
You can strengthen your emotional stability, trainings and special psychological exercises contribute to this. Most of all, the strengthening of emotional stability helps ↑ Syntone program: Mastery of Communication and Management of Emotions.
If you do not yet have the opportunity to go through the Synthon program, you can work with yourself on your own with the help of special exercises. Our recommendations:
- Quiet presence is work with the body. Formation of the body base of a calm, adequate, sane person.
- Emotional traffic light is work with the head. The result is that annoying little things hurt less, it is easier to distinguish: “This is a trifle, not something serious.” Even the serious blows of life are perceived more calmly.
- Soul insurance is work with the soul as a whole. The soul trains to take the blows of life, becomes stronger, more protected.
- Dawn in Kryzhopol is a work with a philosophy of life, a willingness to start life from scratch. The description of this exercise is from the Synton program: «Management of emotions.»