I love the section on practical techniques! I've often found that emotional states can interfere with my ability to respond wisely to a situation.
Question: could the body's emotional and physical response to situations also be considered a form of "intelligence?" In other words, "intelligence" could be defined not only in terms of computational power and access to computational power but, as a matter of integrating the abilities of brain, gut, and heart in skillful ways?
Yes - asbolutely! I believe there's intelligence in all emotions and actually, even in dysregulation - provided we have a healthy relationship to them, where we can interpret and incorporate the messages from them wisely - this relies on 'us having our feelings and emotions' vs. 'them having us' (i.e. being triggered, reactive), and I think this is really where emotional regulation comes in to help us with this shift.
The post is about 'intelligence' as it refers to being able to make wiser decisions when we are more centred and grounded i.e. maintaining executive function - and I think including our feelings and emotions as valuable input is certainly a very important part of that.
I love the section on practical techniques! I've often found that emotional states can interfere with my ability to respond wisely to a situation.
Question: could the body's emotional and physical response to situations also be considered a form of "intelligence?" In other words, "intelligence" could be defined not only in terms of computational power and access to computational power but, as a matter of integrating the abilities of brain, gut, and heart in skillful ways?
What do you think?
Yes - asbolutely! I believe there's intelligence in all emotions and actually, even in dysregulation - provided we have a healthy relationship to them, where we can interpret and incorporate the messages from them wisely - this relies on 'us having our feelings and emotions' vs. 'them having us' (i.e. being triggered, reactive), and I think this is really where emotional regulation comes in to help us with this shift.
The post is about 'intelligence' as it refers to being able to make wiser decisions when we are more centred and grounded i.e. maintaining executive function - and I think including our feelings and emotions as valuable input is certainly a very important part of that.
Thanks Anand, that’s helpful!