Critical thinking- Priti Pimpalkhare

I think religion is the practice created by humans for society. People with the same thoughts and beliefs created their groups and named them religions. They follow different authorities which they named god. These Gods have different names and their identity, they are from mythology or some saints.

I am not totally against some beliefs as far as it’s not harming society and my self-esteem. I believe in some positive power that keeps motivating me to do the right things. I also chose saints such as Swami Samartha, and Sai baba to share my thoughts to ask some questions in my mind for which I get answers by myself. The statues or photographs are not talking with me but motivate me to listen to my inner voice for a sure. I think it’s a faith factor and not following religion blindly.

I started keeping my points of view about my beliefs too. I don’t allow myself to go to some pandit, baba to solve my problems, as only I am the person who can work on them.

But there are many people who are grappling with some beliefs like we can not do pooja during periods, Different communities have to follow only their religion, Only particular reason is showing the right path, and Follow the authorities blindly without thinking logically etc.

Critical thinking helps to be more open-minded and think logically about religion and beliefs. I will surely be able to question myself whenever I might have to take any decision about my beliefs or how to the extent I need to participate in rituals.

Apart from this System, 1 and System 2 helped me a lot. I have gone through a couple of situations where I was able to apply Think 2, take a pose, and react.

Though I am an open-minded parent, I will definitely work on that I will not pass on my beliefs regarding religion to my daughter and let her decide what is religion for her or whether she believes or does not believe in that.

 

 

Strive for it, you may or may not achieve it

We started with DIFFICULT CONVERSATION and ended with CONTENTMENT. Yes, that’s how our EI journey was. Everyone faces difficult conversations, but how to deal with it was beautifully explained by our facilitators; Nandini ma’am and Evelyn ma’am.
I really liked the 3 steps: Content conversation, Emotional conversation and identity conversation. It was worth pondering on identity conversation, cause, what I realised is, that’s where everything starts and that’s where we can balance ourselves.
Now, I would like to stress on STRESS buffer. Who doesn’t stress out? We all are humans and we do face stress. An astonishing approach towards stress; just improve your relationship with it.
I am definitely more Emotionally Intelligent now. Thanks to the entire group for sharing and being an empathetic listener. 

Journey full of Emotions!!!

I learned a lot throughout the sessions of Emotional Intelligence.
It is very important to be aware of our own emotions and also have empathy towards others.
Many a times, we neglect our emotions which in a way affect us and the people associated with us.
This life class is surely going to help me in my life.  After listening to different people and understanding different theories made me realise that it is difficult to be emotionally intelligent but not impossible.

I am grateful to this organisation and both the facilitators @Nandini ma’am and @Evelyn ma’am for facilitating the EI sessions .

Visit to the orphanage helped me realise that how Grateful our lives are and we keep stressing over small things.
We need to nourish and cherish our mind and body to be happy and be emotionally strong!

I will try taking this life class back to my life!

Forever Grateful!

 

 

Let’s be more intelligent emotinally

Anxious in the beginning as I am in the beginning of every class. Worried whether will I get to know something new or nullify my earlier thoughts. Well, both happened. My new learnings were amygdala hijack, autopilot mode, Siberian train, passion and purpose and many more. There was a lot of assurance I got that I am on a right track towards being intelligent when it came to being optimistic, balanced and contended. And I had a paradigm shift when we learnt about empathy. That is an action plan I am working on and now I try to not give advice but lend a hearing ear to a person in need of my empathy. Handling difficult conversation is something which was overlooked by me but now I have better tools to handle it. All in all, these session, mindfull nature walks and the therepautic mediation session taken have added value to my life. Again my heart is filled with gratitude as God has led my way to this fantabulous institution.

Emotional Intelligence

इस कार्यशाला ने मुझे अपनी भावनात्मक बुद्धिमत्ता पर आत्म-प्रतिबिंबित करने में मदद की है और साथ ही मुझे कई ऐसे पहलू सीखने को मिले हैं जिनमें अपनी भावनाओं को नियंत्रित और स्वीकार करना है। भावनात्मक आत्म-जागरूकता आपकी अपनी भावनाओं और आपके ऊपर उनके प्रभावों को समझने की क्षमता है। प्रदर्शन। आप जानते हैं कि आप क्या महसूस कर रहे हैं और क्यों-और यह कैसे मदद करता है या आप जो करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं उसे चोट पहुँचाते हैं। आप महसूस करते हैं कि दूसरे आपको कैसे देखते हैं और इसलिए अपनी स्वयं की छवि को एक बड़ी वास्तविकता के साथ संरेखित करें।
आपको अपनी ताकत और सीमाओं का सटीक बोध होता है, जो आपको वास्तविक आत्मविश्वास देता है। यह आपको अपने मूल्यों और उद्देश्य की भावना पर भी स्पष्टता देता है। आप स्पष्टवादी और प्रामाणिक हो सकते हैं, अपनी दृष्टि के बारे में दृढ़ विश्वास के साथ बोल सकते हैं।
मुझे लगता है कि भावनात्मक बुद्धिमत्ता को महत्वपूर्ण माना जाता है क्योंकि इसे रिश्तों, शिक्षाविदों और करियर सहित जीवन के विभिन्न क्षेत्रों में सफलता से जोड़ा गया है। इसे समग्र जीवन संतुष्टि और कल्याण का एक महत्वपूर्ण कारक भी माना जाता है। जबकि कुछ लोगों के पास स्वाभाविक रूप से उच्च स्तर की भावनात्मक बुद्धि हो सकती है, यह एक ऐसा कौशल भी है जिसे जानबूझकर प्रयास और अभ्यास के माध्यम से विकसित और सुधारा जा सकता है।

Emotion

Emotional intelligence helps to to identify and describe what people are feeling and what they think.Able to understand other perspectives.

If person is emotionally intelligent then they can accept mistake with less effort.

Because of emotional intelligence class learn empathy towards other and learn sentences that used when we empathised some one.

I learned one of the most thing that don’t be judgemental for others because we never know about others situations.

Self awareness helps to understand our own emotions and the impact of that emotions.

EI helps to manage social and professional relationships and also helps to manage works.

We can also able to find our triggers point and learn how it can be handled.

Because of EI I find how to became an empathetic listener.

Emotional intelligence is a skill that can be developed and improved over a long time through practice and perseverance.it’s difficult to put in life easily.

Lastly we go to orphanage and we learn things from there like how to empathetic towards people, the children are too good in dance or singing.we enjoy so many games there.

Thank you Nandini ma’am and Evelyn ma’am for this beautiful EI journey and helps to learn so many things.

Intelligent or not? That is the question

The question has been answered with this amazing workshop,”Emotional Intelligence”. These 8 days were an insightful and thought provoking one. The latter days focused on Empathy and Social Skills. I was able to understand the word ‘Empathy’ in a broader sense. There is a vast difference between the generic definition to the actual understanding of Empathy. I understood how empathy plays a major role in maintaining a healthy relationship at workplace and work towards the greater good for all. The best part was to visit the old age home to practice empathy and social skills where I understood how important it is to be empathetic and lead a hearing ear to the one in need doesn’t only benefit them but also us as it gives us a satisfaction which can’t be expressed in world. I felt really blessed to have such a life where I have people who wants me to be a part of their life. All and all, Emotional Intelligence Workshop did help me understand and manage my emotions in a better way.

Emotional Intelligence

While it’s easy to think of Emotional Intelligence as all about mushy feelings, it’s an idea born from a lot of psychological research and now strengthened and backed up by neuroscience.

It is an awareness of your feelings, emotions and your ability to use that awareness in myriad, unprecedented life situations. An ability to navigate through life confidently.

But, how do we understand ourselves? And how do we use that knowledge to achieve success and contentment in the world around us?

These questions have been aptly answered in this Life class.

An emotionally intelligent person is aware of the influence emotions have on different people, acts accordingly, and as a result has more successful and holistic relationship dynamics.
Hence, EQ is the need of the hour!

Confused.. still moving on..!!

My journey of Critical Thinking so far has taught me to think two ways: Keeping your emotions aside as well as considering them.

There are many situations in every individual’s life where they have to think critically and hop to one conclusion. But is it easy?

I have learned to analyze a situation without overthinking. Critical thinking reflects that emotions and reasoning go hand in hand. It gives us ownership of beliefs. The decision between a fact and an opinion will be taken on grey areas and not black & white.

The question which still resolves is Who is God? I mean I have seen my family discussing about Lord Krishna because of which I have various images and types of GOD in mind. But, Now after the sessions and discussion, I am confused that no one has seen god, all these stories are assumptions that something of this sort must have happened and people are believing it since ages.

I never doubted on the existence of God! There is some creator and destroyer, there is some supreme being.

Religion what I believe is all man – made, people of same beliefs and location came together to form a group and then they made their own rituals and traditions and then domination started.

Also, learned that one should not be biased in taking decisions but think critically about what is actually important for us.

With gratitude,

Palak Joshi

Critical Thinking (2022-23)

Critical thinking has helped me to understand about the difference between needs and want. During the sessions we’re got to know more about how everyone has difference perspective/perception on same thing. It was a experience about the peoples thinks critically about the religion too. For critical thinking you have to be open minded and think all possible ways of understanding which is highlight of it.

How your facilitator gives inputs during the critical thinking session is more important which can help you to know above it deeply. Guest speaker sessions was the perfect way, to clear the understanding of participants.

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