EMOTIONAL AWARENESS

A lot of people don’t really understand what emotional awareness is, and some others underestimate it a lot. I’m going to try as much as possible to make this very brief. Being emotionally aware goes way further than knowing or observing how other people react in certain situations; it also goes as far as being aware of your own emotions and feelings as well.

Emotionally aware people know when they are angry, sad, or anxious; it’s just like they know how they react when a certain part of their emotion gets triggered. It’s one thing to know how you feel, though, but it’s something totally different to know how someone else feels.

Emotionally aware or intelligent people observe everyone around them; they know how the closest people to them think, and they know how they act when they’re angry, sad, happy, or even in distress. Sometimes it’s not even only the people close to them; it’s also those people they are around most of the time, let’s say colleagues at work, classmates at school, and even more, just as long as they see that person enough to observe every one of their reactions when feeling certain emotions.

These people can see beyond every smile; they see the tears and the sadness underneath every smile, and they see the struggle behind every “I’m fine.” Most of the time, they know when you’re lying but just decide to overlook it because they already feel like knowing what your true feelings are is a win-win.

I’m not saying they know everything about you because that’s not true; they don’t. In fact, sometimes they can be wrong about what someone is feeling, but just saying most of the time their instincts are right, and it’s just because of one reason: every human being shares one attribute, emotions. Every human has emotions just that we have different ways of expressing them. Some can hide or even suppress their emotions longer than others, but then that’s where emotionally aware people come in. As long as they’ve known you long enough to study your reactions, they know when you’re hiding something, suppressing your feelings, or even going through shit.

Well now here we are, I know you must be thinking that any human being can know how people close to them feel as long as they know them long enough, well there’s an element of truth to that, it’s just like a mother knowing her child well enough to know how he/she thinks in certain situations but then some humans are not really that observant, some of them won’t even know until you tell them what’s really going on with you, but like I said before emotionally aware people don’t just know how people closest to them or around them react, it’s more like they know how humans react in every situation, they could see someone for the first time and know what he’s thinking or how he’s feeling, you might think it’s easy but it’s not, it’s because they notice every single detail, the facial expressions, the body movement, the voice tone, that’s how they know and they’re mostly right.

It’s like they’ve studied the human species long enough to know this much, but they haven’t. For some people it’s actually out of experience, because they’ve experienced a certain thing before they know that other people will most likely react the same way if they go through what they experienced, but then the real deal comes naturally. Some people are just naturally observant; they notice every detail, and that’s what makes them stand out.

The truth is everyone can be emotionally aware to some extent, but I just feel it’s important to know how you yourself feel and then how your close friends and loved ones feel as well, at least know their reactions when a certain one of their emotions is being triggered so you can offer help or comfort if necessary, but then most importantly know how you yourself react when an emotion of yours is being triggered so that if you need to get it under control, then you will be able to.

I hope this read was helpful. I might not be right because, after all, I’m human, and even I make mistakes, but I want to believe that some certain points here were right and perhaps even educated someone, even if it’s just one person.