Introduction
The general agreement is that wellness programs have profound positive benefits to an individual. Through wellness initiatives, an individual has the opportunity to live happier, healthier, longer and more productive life. Being the most important assets to psychological health, emotional intelligence offers a dramatic shift from culture of treatment to prevention. The objective of this analytical treatise is to evaluate the contribution of emotional intelligence to personal health and wellness.
Emotional intelligence on personal health and wellness
Human beings are complex with complicated systems. Thus, their illness may result not just from a single factor, but a myriad of factors. Much research has been done on the prospective link between health, physical and mortality. Furthermore, well-being has always been linked to greater health, and longevity of life. Emotional intelligence has significant contribution towards general wellness and good health (Goleman 1996).
The causes of illness are influenced by several interacting factors that have negative impacts on an individual’s emotional intelligence. For example, individuals already suffering from an illness are likely to be physically inactive and change their diets (Goleman 1996). When I was undergoing the stress of loss of a loved one, my emotional intelligence level was very low and I had to endure uncontrolled emotional outbursts. As a result, my general wellness and health deteriorated until I learned the strategies for quick recovery. It is therefore important to identify and contain the mediating pathways to wellness through proactive thinking as part of emotional intelligence (Gilbert 2009).
The emotional intelligence orientation module has remained active in developing dependence of interest attached to an activity, creating proactive relationships, and monitoring their interaction with physical and psychological health. Eventually, a properly balanced emotional intelligence pays off since an individual will learn to appreciate the essence of tolerance and need to stay active. By encouraging a hyperactive tolerance level, I have always been able tointernalize the need for optimizing output level through pre-planning of activities and accommodating extras. For instance, I am in a position to balance the pressure between family and career demands through being open to new ideas (Gilbert 2009).
Perception review offers the most ethically viableoptions for proactive management of behavior. This identifies the aspects of the effort-performance expectancy, valence expectancy, and performance-outcome expectancy. Specifically, positive mental perception will boost effort-performance expectancy to apprehend the perception of an individual that can be directly correlated withbetter health and wellness. This element is supported by the experience of the individual in question since performance and ethical decision making process is skewed towards experience with a situation and response adopted (Goleman 1996).
High motivational expectation attracts better performance due to good health. For instance, a quantifiable paradigm shift in perception can be linked to the correlation between reward and performance of an individual. The valence expectancy explores the weight an individual allocates to a reward in motivating performance. The higher the weight allocated to the expected reward, the higher the motivation of better interaction when all other factors are held constant. It is acceptable to state that mental models that are aligned to proactive thinking will ensure creation of a good rapport with personal health and wellness (Goleman 1996).
Mental models create strong belief that the highest morals restof ‘good will’ which allows mankind to undertake actions in the backdrop of peak morality or moral worth often based on origin priority. For instance, when the underlying command plans originate from the opinionated inclination of such an individual, the results would basically be aligned towards self contempt (Gilbert 2009). As a matter of fact, behavior leadership model involving actual and observed experiences of individuals within a similar environment and under same situation can be transformed into a continuous communication strategy. The state of health and wellness of an individual is highly influenced by the role and attitude of an individual in the course of a challenge. Thus, positive emotional intelligence will ensure a balance between performance and the state of wellness of an individual.
The self guide approach towards wellness is based on collaborative procedures that involve designing specific learning experiences on how to monitor automatic behavior; recognize the relationship between these behaviors and cognition, ways to test the validity of the relationships, and measures to apply to substitute the distorted thoughts with more realistic cognitions. Moderate personality employs the problem-solving therapies in practice of emotional intelligence. The approach is necessary in situations where an individual has been unable to cope with the problematic situations facing him or her. Considering the social and personal consequences associated with the inability to cope with some challenges in life, emotional intelligence has empowered my personality to carry out an assessment that can offer the most effective response if not a permanent solution to these challenges (Goleman 1996).
Conclusion
Conclusively, unlike the counterproductive behavior, productive behavior examines the challenges that are posed to individuals by maladaptive thought patterns and where possible, help the individuals establish more realistic and adaptive thought patterns that positively influence health and general wellness.
References
Gilbert, D. (2009). Stumbling on happiness. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
Goleman, D. (1996). Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.