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Emotional Intelligence Pocketbook
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Emotional Intelligence Pocketbook

by Gill Hasson
April 2017
Beginner
128 pages
2h 18m
English
Capstone
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MANAGING SADNESS

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

Sadness is the sorrow and distress caused by a loss or failure that you have experienced. When you lose something or someone you love, when you fail to achieve something, when your hopes fail to materialise or a good situation comes to an end, this experience of loss can be felt and expressed as sadness.

Sadness produces particular bodily responses that, instead of giving you energy, as anger does, take energy away from you. Your mind and body slow down, to give you time to take in the loss or failure and accept that what has happened has happened and that nothing can change that.

Like all emotions, sadness has a positive purpose. Not ...

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