Comments on: The Moral Instinct http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html Emotional Intelligence News and Views Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Tom http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-45 Tom Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:29:09 +0000 http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-45 Bam, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have found the more I focus on my emotions the faster I am able to process them. It is also interesting to discuss with people who react instantaneously based only on an emotion. I lived next to a medal of honor winner and he reports that his actions were a result of his emotions overriding his rational thoughts of lay still and keep your head down. HeartMath produces a program and a gadget that measures heart waves and helps you learn to notice when you are upset and to practice regaining your sense of emotional balance. It is called the freeze framer. I use it in workshops to demonstrate the effect emotions and thoughts have on ones internal equilibrium. It also shows have you can shift your internal state by shifting your thinking. Tom Bam,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have found the more I focus on my emotions the faster I am able to process them. It is also interesting to discuss with people who react instantaneously based only on an emotion. I lived next to a medal of honor winner and he reports that his actions were a result of his emotions overriding his rational thoughts of lay still and keep your head down.

HeartMath produces a program and a gadget that measures heart waves and helps you learn to notice when you are upset and to practice regaining your sense of emotional balance. It is called the freeze framer. I use it in workshops to demonstrate the effect emotions and thoughts have on ones internal equilibrium. It also shows have you can shift your internal state by shifting your thinking.

Tom

]]> By: BAM http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-41 BAM Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:10:13 +0000 http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-41 Great post. Many challenging questions with no simple answers. My thought on this is people have time for what is right in front of them...what is hitting them in the face at this moment. EQ slows things down because it takes time to learn how to sense what the emotional brain is telling us. Not everyone is interested in slowing down. It could cost them their status..whatever that might be. I'm a musician and I recently purchased an electric tuner. It is pretty cool. I clip it onto the guitar and it feels what note is being played by the vibration of the string I am plucking. As I played around with it I wondered if a devise could be made to measure our emotional vibrations. Clip it onto our wrist or strap it around our chest like a heart monitor and let it measure our emotional state at the time..... maybe a quick fix to slow us down.? We just need to know how to interpret the signal coming from the electronic EQ tuner! But then, how do we ensure we will take the right action? Right to me maybe totally wrong to someone else? Just wondering..... Best, BAM Great post. Many challenging questions with no simple answers.

My thought on this is people have time for what is right in front of them…what is hitting them in the face at this moment.

EQ slows things down because it takes time to learn how to sense what the emotional brain is telling us. Not everyone is interested in slowing down. It could cost them their status..whatever that might be.

I’m a musician and I recently purchased an electric tuner. It is pretty cool. I clip it onto the guitar and it feels what note is being played by the vibration of the string I am plucking.

As I played around with it I wondered if a devise could be made to measure our emotional vibrations. Clip it onto our wrist or strap it around our chest like a heart monitor and let it measure our emotional state at the time….. maybe a quick fix to slow us down.? We just need to know how to interpret the signal coming from the electronic EQ tuner!

But then, how do we ensure we will take the right action? Right to me maybe totally wrong to someone else?

Just wondering…..

Best,
BAM

]]> By: Josh http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-24 Josh Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:19:04 +0000 http://6seconds.org/blog/2008/01/14/the-moral-instinct.html#comment-24 Wow Tom - powerful! I fear that some people will conclude, "leaders ought to spend NO time with people so they can make rational decisions" -- and then is "rational" simply a euphemism for heartless? Wow Tom - powerful! I fear that some people will conclude, “leaders ought to spend NO time with people so they can make rational decisions” — and then is “rational” simply a euphemism for heartless?

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