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Working with emotional intelligence
  • It is hypothesised that teaching
    individuals strategies to enhance
    emotional intelligence will
    enhance their ability to manage
    emotional states experienced in
    peak pressure situations.

Emotional intelligence is defined “the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotion, to discriminate among
them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (Salovey & Mayer, 1990, p.189). It is concerned with
identification, regulation and usage of emotions in self and others. Emotional intelligence has been associated with
successful performance and desirable psychological states in numerous studies. Recent research has found that
emotionally intelligent athletes can regulate their mood states to optimal levels needed for success (Lane, Thelwell, et al.,
2005). The focus of our current is on the utility of teaching athletes strategies to enhance emotional intelligence. Future work
will continue to address this question.

Our work typically follows the following protocol. We assess your emotional intelligence using psychometric measures. We
assess emotional states associated with optimal and dysfunctional performance.  We also assess the strategies you
currently use to manage your performance states such as using  exercising and listening to music. We teach you how to
develop new skills and make best  use of existing skills. After a suitable period of training, we re-assess emotional states
linked with performance. We hypothesise that intervention work will improve emotion regulation skills and performance. We
should that interventions are tailored around the needs of the individual.
You make your own feelings by what you tell
yourself..
Feelings are thinking skills.....
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Enhanced performance through emotional control