I was listening to a presentation about emotional intelligence in the context of working with children based on stuff from the "Yale Center for Emotional Intell

I was listening to a presentation about emotional intelligence in the context of working with children based on stuff from the "Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence". The part of it that was life changing for me was the concept of describing emotions based on a 2D graph. One axis goes from "Negative" -> "Positive" and the other from "Low Energy" -> "High Energy". This makes four "quadrants": negative + low energy (including thing like "sad"), negative + high energy (including things like "angry"), positive + low energy (including things like "relaxed"), and positive + high energy (including things like "excited"). They went on to say that there are times when you want to be in each quadrant because each is suited for different kinds of tasks (e.g. low energy + negative for empathy, high energy + positive for productivity). If you can identify what quadrant you're currently in, there are techniques for moving toward any of the other quadrants depending on what you need to get done. There's actually an app I used for a while where you could pick a point on the grid and it would suggest words to describe how you may be feeling as well as these techniques for moving on either axis.