You cannot transform something you are unaware of. With awareness, we begin gently inclining toward care, patience, and respect for ourselves and others.

High awareness is feeling like you have a clear picture of what's going inside and around you. You feel empathy towards the thoughts and feelings of others.

Being aware of your emotions and other people's feelings can significantly benefit your relationships and help you form strong connections.

Confidence is about having a belief and positive regard for yourself and your ability to succeed.

Anger is a low vibration emotional energy. It negatively affects your body and the environment around you.

Anger is a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed because of something you perceive to feel "wrong" or "bad." Being mindful of anger means not suppressing, denying, or avoiding it and not acting out in harmful ways.

Instead, connect with the direct experience of the anger, and then choose what action you want to take. Transfer your anger to compassion for yourself and the other person. Practice empathy and love, then let it go.

Confusion happens when learning something that is both unfamiliar and hard to understand. You might have a hard time focusing or making decisions.

In reality, the road to clarity starts with confusion, which means that confusion is a GOOD thing. It means you're stretching your mind towards new levels of clarity. Make a habit of connecting inwards to find clarity on your biggest challenge, opportunities, and growth edges.

When you feel "stuck" in confusion, the best asset you have is in your gut. Go with how you feel, move through your confusion. Movement is critical. Follow your truth.

Happiness is an overall feeling of purpose, fulfillment, and safety. Happy people develop a habit of being and doing things that bring them happiness.

Knowing your sense of well-being, joy, love, and contentment is a state of happiness. When you practice daily gratitude, you re-frame your perception of the world to experience more happiness.

Through intentional practices, you can change the neural pathways of your brain to feel happier.

In fact, only 10% of our happiness is due to our external circumstances and a full 90% is based on our inner environment!

Love is awareness of self, a choice to be in alignment with who you truly are. Love is feeling a powerful sense of empathy and a long-term committed relationship with YOU. From that space, we can give healthy love to others.

Love is welcoming. Love is light, and it is inclusive of all of creation. When you align to love, the world responds with light and joy.

Love is a combination of attentive care, affection, kindness, gratitude, and compassion.

Fear is the feeling of anxiousness, worry, uncertainty of the future, or repetition of the past. Understanding your type of fear helps you know your sensitivities and needs. Being present in the "right now" can help reduce the feeling of fear. Take a deep breath. Fear is what you may be experiencing; this is NOT who you are.

Loneliness does not come from having any people around you but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Loneliness is feeling misunderstood, sad, not having anyone to talk with or connect with, and detached from the world. Loneliness is what you may be experiencing; this is NOT who you are.

When you are motivated, you feel the energy to move and can maintain goal-oriented behaviors.

Motivation causes you to act on curiosity, make a choice and solve a problem. Motivation is the "why" you do something.

Motivated people go above and beyond; others trust you; you are focused and have tremendous confidence in your abilities.

When motivation is present; you have dreams of endless possibilities and tend to be extremely satisfied with your life.

Peace is one of the essential human experiences.

Peace is a feeling of calm and relaxation; however, it is not a state of passivity or dullness. Inner peace comes from being conscious, alive, and happy. Peace allows you to live life more fully.

Inner peace comes when you can recognize the good in yourself to acknowledge the good in your life and others.

Even if there is stress, you are protected from it by this sense of security and safety that brings about stillness. Regardless of the challenges, you still have an outlook on life to see all the opportunities and abundance around you.

Sadness is a normal reaction to a loss, disappointment, problems, or other difficult situations. Feeling sad from time to time is just another part of being human. In these cases, feelings of sadness may go away quickly, and you can go about your daily life.

Acknowledging your sadness can help you accept and work through it. Allow yourself to feel sadness—without judging it. Meditation in a natural setting, perhaps together with other people, can move the energy of sadness.

When you recognize your stress, mental or emotional strain, or tension, it is more manageable. Allow yourselves to identify the stress in your body and breath through it, releasing the anxiety that may be active. Take in a deep breath, hold it in, imagine a calm, beautiful place and let it go. Stress is what you may be experiencing; this is NOT who you are.

Self-awareness is identifying and understanding your emotional state without self-judgment. It is noticing what appears to be true for you in this particular moment of time. Your emotions are not your identity.

You are not “Sad, Amy.” Instead, you are “Amy, who happens to feel sad at this moment.”

Before learning self-awareness, we often become stuck - we need to understand, question, or simply cannot identify our actual emotional state. We have the power to change how we feel when we are fully aware and accept what is true at this moment.

Emotional self-awareness powerfully unlocks the next step in the emotional intelligence process, self-management.

Self-management is the influence or control you have over positive and negative emotions. Your freedom is in choice! You are co-creating every experience; everything is happening for you!

When you have high emotional management, you no longer allow outside people, events, or circumstances to influence your feelings. Instead, you retain the ultimate power over your internal emotional states, regardless of external factors.

Before learning self-management, our emotions are often dictated, pulled, and swayed by people and situations in the outside world. Emotional self-management gives us the power to feel good regardless of the world around us.

This emotional self-agency allows us to feel better more often and can significantly improve our relationships with those we love and care about, including ourselves.

Healthy emotional expression is understanding and managing your emotions so you can move through them constructively and move on. Emotions are energy. It needs a place to go. Ideally, it goes to a healthy place and benefits all involved.

This is not something many of us learn as children. Instead, we learned to hide or block our emotional expression because it was embarrassing, inappropriate, or inconvenient to others. We can change that. We can learn how to understand, manage and express our emotions healthily.

When emotions are not expressed, their energy remains trapped in our bodies. When we repress our emotions, we create toxicity in our body, mind, and heart. Suppressed or unresolved emotions can drain our energy, lead to burnout, create inflammation, cause physical pain, and even propagate disease. Emotions deserve to be expressed and processed.

Emotional expression is one of the most effective ways to improve overall well-being. Letting emotion move through you gives you a deep sense of freedom. It enhances interpersonal relationships, decision-making, creativity, problem-solving, resilience, and stress response.

Healthy empathy is imagining someone’s feelings without actually absorbing them as our own. Having compassion for the emotions and experiences of others is a daily habit we can cultivate to improve the quality of our life. Compassion for yourself is the first step in truly holding compassion for others.

Empathy allows us to understand others’ emotions and, in turn, helps us grow our understanding of how different emotions are experienced and expressed. Actively practicing healthy empathy means using others to add to our emotional perception. When we harbor resentment and anger toward others, we often lack understanding and empathy for them.

To increase our emotional intelligence, we must continually engage in empathy - both for ourselves and others - to strengthen what we already know about emotions and keep our minds open about what we don’t know. Compassion and connection can prevail when we avoid the urge to make assumptions about what others feel. Empathy abounds when entire communities improve their emotional intelligence, and humans can create, communicate and connect for the greater good.

Positive stress, otherwise known as “Eustress,” is beneficial stress. It is actually necessary for well-being. This type of positive stress is manageable and even motivating. It can contribute to feelings of optimism and excitement about life. We can evaluate many stressors in life by seeing them as challenges rather than threats.

It is good because you feel confident, adequate, and stimulated by the challenges you experience. This good stress is often short-term. It is not chronic anxiety, fear, or stress that is emotionally draining, as in distress. A product of nerves, exciting or stressful events cause a chemical response in the body.

When faced with a fun challenge, like riding a roller coaster, beginning a new job, or being involved in a relationship, positive stress is present. Some benefits of positive stress may be better focus and concentration, the ability to take on new challenges, pursue goals, and feel more resilient in facing challenges. It can give meaning and purpose to life, to feel healthier and happier. Positive feelings of fulfillment, satisfaction, and well-being are produced by positive stress.

Positive stress empowers us to grow in 3 areas: Emotionally, with positive feelings of contentment, inspiration, motivation, and flow. Psychologically we build our autonomy and resilience. Physically we can develop our bodies with a challenging workout.

To make positive stress a part of daily life is to learn something new daily. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and take on a new responsibility or skill. Set realistic goals, then track your progress, and hold yourself accountable. Use positive self-talk, focus on what you can control, shift your mindset, and approach stress as a challenge. Balance is essential, and we should not neglect other areas of our life, including self-care and relaxation.